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Official 2012-2013 NBA Season postmortem

The entire celebration party was weird. They kind of stood on a stage and ate pizza with Drake.

Drake sucks, by the way. Canadian Teen Soap Opera star to hanging out with the champs without one good song in the last few years.
 
NBA rant alert:

How much of the anti-NBA angst and pure LeBron vitriol is coming from 25-35 year-olds who hold an unrealistic but nostalgic picture of the 90's NBA?

I keep meeting dudes around my age who HATE the NBA now, who HATE LeBron now... but they all loved the 90's NBA and all loved Jordan growing up. Objectively you can't say the NBA was actually better back then, although that is the argument I keep hearing. I've heard the offense is all iso now; I've heard the defense is non-existent now; I've heard that college players play harder now... all things that anyone who watches the NBA at all know are objectively false.

But the problem is these guys were all NBA fans growing up. They all loved Jordan... much like me. I feel like a lot of this rebellion is a protection of foggy childhood memories of NBA fantasies. If people think the NBA sucks now but was awesome back then... well shit, the product is better now just from a rules standpoint. There is too emotional of an investment in those memories, in that nostalgia, and in many cases in Michael Jordan to accept the product they see now. If you really want to talk about cognitive dissonance, it is never more apparent than in LeBron and NBA haters aged 25-35. The things they say will astound you.

Maybe I'm completely wrong, but I've been hearing a lot of familiar asinine arguments lately and I feel like it is a generational thing and people get so emotional because they are protecting something... the 90's NBA were magical in a way for a lot of us, and some of us will never accept a passing of the torch.
 
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I think you've got the age range wrong. It's more like the 30s. A 25 year kid is younger than Lebron and barely remembers pre-Baron's Jordan.
 
PhDeac said:
I think you've got the age range wrong. It's more like the 30s. A 25 year kid is younger than Lebron and barely remembers pre-Baron's Jordan.
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I think you're right actually. I'm 29 and people 3 to 4 years younger don't have the same attachment, but all the older dudes do. But I grew up cheering for MJ and he comprises all my earliest NBA memories.
 
Fuck Your Couch said:
I think you're right actually. I'm 29 and people 3 to 4 years younger don't have the same attachment, but all the older dudes do. But I grew up cheering for MJ and he comprises all my earliest NBA memories.
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Wait you're 29? We might the same class
 
I grew up loving Jordan too. I was a little kid in Eastern NC when he was at Carolina. 90s NBA was awesome because the team I rooted for in the Finals won from 91-99.
 
As great as the finals were, the problem with the NBA is that few care about it until the playoffs, unlike the NFL, MLB or college sports. And the players don't give us a lot of reason to care about it until the playoffs. So for the vast majority, the NBA is a two month league.
 
Skydog Deac said:
As great as the finals were, the problem with the NBA is that few care about it until the playoffs, unlike the NFL, MLB or college sports. And the players don't give us a lot of reason to care about it until the playoffs. So for the vast majority, the NBA is a two month league.
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Oh yeah people loooooove the MLB regular season
 
buckets said:
Oh yeah people loooooove the MLB regular season
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You are right, they don't. But it's more of a passive activity, on in the background. Say what you will, but no one gives a shit about the NBA reg season.
 
Skydog Deac said:
As great as the finals were, the problem with the NBA is that few care about it until the playoffs, unlike the NFL, MLB or college sports. And the players don't give us a lot of reason to care about it until the playoffs. So for the vast majority, the NBA is a two month league.
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Eh, the weekday NBA games can be dull to the average fan but the weekend games are usually competitive, intense, and certainly as meaningful as your average MLB or NHL game.

FYC is right, though. There are 3 objective falsehoods that always get repeated. There is far less ISO ball in the modern NBA (and good grief, the rise of kids playing ISO ball was probably a byproduct of Jordan), the defenses of the good teams today are exceptionally disciplined, and if college players played so hard then NBA coaches wouldn't need to constantly be benching their young players for lack of effort.
 
I think those falsehoods come from the 40 or 50 and over set.
 
Skydog Deac said:
You are right, they don't. But it's more of a passive activity, on in the background. Say what you will, but no one gives a shit about the NBA reg season.
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I enjoy it. I think the league does a good job with TV matchups, and the TNT crew is better than anything other sports have.
 
i grew up cheering for nc state, so i've disliked jordan with a passion for over 30 years. it feels good, that kind of long term hate
 
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