Childhood is liking the NFL.
Adolescence is switching to the NHL out of contrarianism to piss off your Dallas Cowboys loving father.
Adulthood is realizing the NBA makes the most sense.
So why haven't you switched to the GOATBA as your main professional sports league, Ameri/sp/?
Why would I watch a sport where penalizing yourself is a winning strategy?
>makes the most sense
>the regular season means virtually nothing
Nothing surpasses the tension of a close basketball game in the final 2 minutes where you know your team can win if they can just nailed their FTs.
Nerve wracking stuff. Meanwhile in cuckegg they just kneel the ball.
>nba
>no parity
>entire season is just reality tv show social media drama
>the offseason is more entertaining than the actual season
>all players are friends with each other so rivalries are fake and players all want to team up together
>regular season is so useless, especially due to over half the league making the playoffs, that teams literally rest their best players all the time and it doesnt negatively affect them at all because the season is too long and the best teams make the top playoff seeds anyway
>last 2 minutes lasts for 20-30 minutes because of intentional fouling
>so much scoring that watching the entire game is meaningless
>best teams always win in the playoffs, never any upsets
>well known that referees are biased towards the best players/teams to get the league the ratings they want
>have to have a ridiculous draft setup to try to prevent tanking that still doesn't work so you just completely change the process one season that still wont work
how can ANYONE defend watching this league?
>Cuck hoop
I'm not a nigger
NFL is dying Cletus. Hockey loses to the WNBA in ratings and Boreball only enjoyed by 90 year olds.
And the Messicans can fuck off with that soccer shit.
GOATBA all that's gonna be left.
can you respond to this?
Thats just memes. You can reduce any sport to the bad shit.
Would rather watch entire seasons of boreball than the same biggest strongest nigger win a championship every single year and post his politics on social media
i posted basically every aspect of the league though. draft, regular season, post season even offseason
and how are those memes? they are legitimate reasons to dislike the nba
what exactly are your positives about the NBA that make it the best sport?
Is there a major sport with less parity than the NBA? I mean it's been LeBron vs .... for 7 out of the last 10 years.
Before that it was Kobe vs, and before that it was Jordan vs.
I progressed from NHL to MLB and then finally the NBA and CFB
Only really watch the Toxins in the NFL
After league pass for the past few years, the NBA is on a completely different level for me. I love that there are so many teams with different approaches to offense/defense; the evolution of the game over the years is beautiful.
Also, i unironically enjoy watching the young and talented players develop and blossom year after. You just don't get that in the NFL where it seems like everyone flames out in 3-4 years.
Regardless, I can totally see how it would suck to only watch the nationally televised games and get some narrow perspective of the league and players in general.
If there was ever a year to follow the NBA, this is it. So many exciting teams and player combinations. Lots of smart coaches and front offices. And of course, the drama.
>watching a sport where only 4 different teams have appeared in the last 5 championship match ups
Great sport you got there.
>I love that there are so many teams with different approaches to offense/defense;
And yet only 4 teams have a chance at a title every year
>the evolution of the game over the years is beautiful.
You mean the death of the big man and just chucking threes every game?
>Also, i unironically enjoy watching the young and talented players develop and blossom year after.
Until they leave their small market teams for big markets and render those small market teams irrelevant again
>If there was ever a year to follow the NBA, this is it. So many exciting teams and player combinations.
Warriors over Cavs in 5 again
>And of course, the drama.
>actually watching a sport league specifically because is has tabloid and social media drama over politics, clothing, shoes and which kardashen each player is dating
Wasn't there just a big NBA drama thing over the Chinese player's haircut a black player got upset over?
>THE ABSOLUTE CITY OF NBA "FANS"
>ads every 2 minutes
>ads on uniforms
>spamming 3 pointers is the best strategy
>flailing around to draw fouls is the other strategy
>winner of the championship is known in preseason
>only tension occurs when the best teams get injured
>offseason is more exciting than the regular season
>niggers
>If there was ever a year to follow the NBA, this is it. So many exciting teams and player combinations. Lots of smart coaches and front offices. And of course, the drama.
There is literally 0 drama. Warriors will beat the Cavs in the Finals easily. Every other team is just praying both Durant and Lebron get injured in the same season.
posts like that make me wonder if nba fans actually believe this shit, or just try to delude themselves into why they continue watching the worst american sport
how can people watch the same shit every fucking year and keep begging for more
And it will be Curry/Durant vs for the next 5-7 years
I remember when I picked up the Bulls as my NBA team in 2010 after a few years of Derrick Rose taking the league by storm
I watched every single regular season game for years, watched them run a train through the league in the regular season, get to the playoffs, and play against the heat like they were a college team and the heat were the globetrottters
realized the nab is completely worthless to watch and the best player will always win.
fuck the nba
>being a immature childish faggot and pissing of your dad, the man who made you
No wonder you're a niggerhoop fan.
>posts like that make me wonder if nba fans actually believe this shit,
Many American sports fans go through an "NBA phase." They're typically in the 12-25 age range.
Their fandom isn't typically motivated by a love for the sport, but more by how the NBA represents "urban cool" and "hipness" in contrast to the NFL's overaggressive commercialism and baseball's "oldness." It's all a pose to piss off their fathers, basically.
Source: School teacher.
Sigh. These posts are always made by retarded hockey fans to turn off fans from better sports. Let us have our based sport you fagos..
I love the NHL vs. NBA rivalry on here.
>And yet only 4 teams have a chance at a title every year
Same as the NFL and MLB
>You mean the death of the big man and just chucking threes every game?
There was a time when the league was replete with talented bigs, now its talented guards that can shoot. Nothing wrong with that, you watch the game change and grow.
>Until they leave their small market teams for big markets and render those small market teams irrelevant again
Some of the best young talent is locked up in small markets (Karl Anthony Towns, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Garry Harris, Westbrook, etc.) The new CBA rules favor a player sticking with their team, and it shows
>Warriors over Cavs in 5 again
Perhaps, but the regular season and playoffs will def be memorable and epic. I'm fine with the most talented team winning again. They wouldn't be together forever.
>There is literally 0 drama.
Tons of player movement this offseason has led to some uneasy lineups and further developed rivalries. That's what I meant about drama.
Lebron has been the best player for how long now and obviously isn't winning yearly. Hell, even the Spurs were able to take down the Heatles with a much less talented squad.
Don't forget, the Warriors literally came from nowhere and took the league by storm. The landscape can change pretty dramatically any year
>no parity
The parity was alright until Kevin Durant ruined it. But with that being said it set the precedent for a lot of great teams in the West this year. Rockets, Thunder, Wolves, Spurs, Pelicans, and Warriors could all be contenders. Honestly, the NBA should go 1-16 seed in the playoffs. That would solve that problem.
>The offseason is more entertaining than the actual season
The last two have been huge with the amount of signings, but those have been anomalies, and offseasons are extremely over hyped by sports media because they need something to talk about in the summer which is also the reason for
>entire season is reality tv show social media drama
That's what the normies want. I watch basketball every night during the regular season and the quality is great, but most people don't take the time to watch.
>regular season is so useless, especially due to over half the league making the playoffs, that teams literally rest their best players all the time and it doesnt negatively affect them at all because the season is too long and the best teams make the top playoff seeds anyway
Football and baseball rests players too, it comes with the grind of the season. Also, top teams rest like 5 games at the most, you're over exaggerating.
>last 2 minutes lasts for 20-30 minutes because of intentional fouling
It was less due to intentional fouling but more because of timeouts. They've reduced timeouts this year which helps, but if you have a rooting interest the suspense is great.
>so much scoring that watching the entire game is meaningless
Normie-tier pleb argument. If you can't see or enjoy the adjustments and rotations throughout the game you're not really watching basketball. Also basketball is a game of runs, it's more important to see how a team adjusts to a run of 10 or more points at a time and the momentum shift that plays out.
>best teams always win in the playoffs, never any upsets
True, but the Finals have produced great upsets.
the inter-sport shit never used to matter. i don't get it. watch what you want who cares
>the NFL and MLB have only 4 teams with a chance every year
holy fucking christ is this guy SERIOUS right now
>The parity was alright until Kevin Durant ruined it
>5 teams (warriors celtics lakers spurs bulls) have won 70% of the nba's titles
>Football and baseball rests players too,
football only rests players in week 17 if their team has locked into a stationary playoff seed. baseball teams rest because, yeah, there are 162 games and it would be ridiculous to think a player could play all of them. and given how important star players are in the nba, resting thme should never be an option
> it's more important to see how a team adjusts to a run of 10 or more points at a time and the momentum shift that plays out.
>watching one team score a ton of points, then another team score a ton of points, for an entire game is considered entertaining
do the other leagues also have commissioners who are literally going to fine teams who rest players like that mongoloid adam silver will?
>superteam wins lol
>every close game ends in a flurry of intentional fouls
>playoffs go on for months
>regular season irrelevant
>half the teams tank
Everything in this post is correct, especially this:
>I watch basketball every night during the regular season and the quality is great, but most people don't take the time to watch.
This is true as well. I don't understand the dick measuring contest. Who actually wants more plebes watching their sport?
>NFL
Pats, Toxins, Chefs, Steelers, Broncos
NFC is basura
>MLB
Doyers, Astros, Yankees
And it's been that way since the all-star break
Prove me wrong faggot
I'll just add that /nba/ is literally the worst possible place on the internet to follow the league. The place is a cesspool of the worst order
You're going to sit here with a straight face and tell me that if I made you a bet at the beginning of the NBA season for the last 7 season that LeBron James wouldn't be in the finals you wouldn't take that bet every time?
Not what I said.
Lebron is the only player in the league that has the capacity to drag his team to the Finals. The last player of that caliber was probably Duncan.
However, that doesn't mean that he'll win it all.
So where's the drama if the half the finals are already determined before the season even starts?
>you claim "the nba with 4 teams having a chance EVERY YEAR is the same as the NFL and MLB"
>tries to use this single season as an argument
World Series matchups this decade:
>indians/cubs
>royals/mets
>royals/giant
>red sox/cardinals
>tigers/giants
>rangers/cardianls
>rangers/giants
Super bowl matchups this decade:
>patriots/falcons
>broncos/panthers
>patriots/seahawks
>broncos/seahawks
>ravens/49ers
>patriots/giants
>steelers/packers
>colts/saints
nba finals matchups this decade:
>warriors/lebrons
>warriors/lebrons
>warriors/lebrons
>spurs/lebrons
>thunder/lebrons
>mavs/lebrons
>lakers/celtics
>uses the shitty AFC as proof that only a few teams make the super bowl
>then claims the "NFC is trash" because that conference actually has parity
then again, it makes sense an NBA fan would think a league with parity is actually trash
the absolute state of NBA fans.
You forgot a spurs/lebrons
>My shitty personal life story is how you should like sports too
Very funny you fucking autist
nba finals matchups this decade:
>warriors/lebrons
>warriors/lebrons
>warriors/lebrons
>spurs/lebrons
>thunder/lebrons
>mavs/lebrons
>lakers/celtics
Look deeper
the NBA has changed pretty dramatically three times since those lakers/celtics series
Yes, Lebron has been a mainstay, but that is a testament to his ability to evolve his game with the best the league has to offer. Those Cavs and Miami teams are very different from each other yet still feature such a dominating player. Show me one other sport where this is possible.
Even the Western opponents have been extremely varying in their build, philosophy and personnel. There is so little in common between those Lakers, Mavs, Thunder, Spurs and even the initial Dubs team.
Look, I get it if you don't enjoy it, but the NBA has so much more depth and complexity than most of you jabronis are even willing to consider.
>people unironically have a problem with the best teams and players consistently winning
dumbest shit I've ever heard
>Those Cavs and Miami teams are very different from each other yet still feature such a dominating player. Show me one other sport where this is possible.
i can't, because all other sports are team games where the entire team actually matters and one player doesn't single handedly make a team what it is.
The really astounding thing about what you say is that the NBA has so much complexity and depth, which even if it is true, it doesn't explain why the same teams and same players are constantly winning everything for the entire history of the league. I don't get how NBA fans can sit here with a straight face and say that the league has "so much depth and complexity" when the entire league can be boiled down to "which teams have the best and/or most superstars? these are the teams that will win the title" every single FUCKING SEASON
even the spurs who people tried to claim were different had david robinson, tim duncan, and now kawhi leonard
>Nothing surpasses the tension of a close basketball game in the final 2 minutes where you know your team can win if they can just nailed their FTs.
the fact that they so often miss fucking FT's makes the sport trash tier.
if they raised the rim, widened and lengthened the court, we'd have a decent game again.
>playing like a faggot because the rules allow it
>good
Okay pal.
It's not necessarily that, it's that basketball's talent pool is so thin, getting the best player usually guarantees at least a playoff berth. You can look at all the teams on paper and predict with fairly easy accuracy who will wind up in the Finals.
The NFL's one game playoff structure results in a few upsets that wouldn't happen in a 7 game series, not to mention that NFL teams don't have the relative talent imbalance (due to football's talent pool being larger) from team to team as the NBA.
And in baseball, your best pitcher only plays 1 game every 3/5 days and your best hitters will get the same amount of chances as the lower order hitters, so Mike Trout can't dominate a game like a Lebron.
Real sports are played on grass
Because every team in every sport needs good players to win. It's a dumb argument. You take Brady off the pats and they don't win shit. Besides that many of the "best players" become the best through coaching schemes and strategies. Nobody thought Curry and Klay were super elite players until Kerr brought in his system. Nobody thinks Kawhi would be anything if he didn't get developed by Pop and the spurs. OKC had 2 top 5 players and 3 future mvp candidates at tone time or another yet didn't win a goddamn thing. It takes a combo of good players, chemistry, and strategy to win in the nba just like in every other sport
>when the entire league can be boiled down to "which teams have the best and/or most superstars? these are the teams that will win the title" every single FUCKING SEASON
Some examples where this was not true
>2011 Mavs
def Durant, Westbrook, Harden and Aldrige, Roy, Batum on the way to def Lebron, Wade, Bosh
#1 seed Spurs lose in the 1st rd
>94 and 95 Rockets
>2004 Pistons
>2005 Spurs
>2006 Heat
>The demise of the 2007 Mavs and the rise of Lebron
Think more critically, jabroni
>Hockey loses to the WNBA in ratings
First of all that is a misrepresentation of data. That study didn't even look at Canada and the WNBA game was posted on a popular sports channel.
You can also find studies that show hockey is the sport for higher average IQ of fans.
>NBA has so much complexity and depth,
Hardcore NBA fan here, and yeah, NBA fans overrate the complexity of the sport (just like soccer fans overrate the complexity of their sport).
Duncan's Spurs ran a very basic offensive strategy of making Duncan the focal point of the offense in the low post while surrounding him with shooters and pentrators. This forced teams in a decision: Single cover Duncan and risk him dominating? Or double him and force shooters and the penetrators (Manu, Parker) to beat us?
But the Spurs built their roster so nicely, that both those options would kill opponents. Nothing particularly "complex" about it. It's a common sense strategy to employ when you have a dominant big man.
This "grand evolution" that poster was talking about occurred because of a rule change implementation that protected perimeter players more than ever before, so after that, teams became more outside/in.
Then the metrics told us that a 3 is worth more than a 2 (no shit) even if shot a lower raw FG% and that the only 2 point shots that are effective are layups, so teams "evolved" by centering offenses more around pick-and-roll (to either get a roll man an easy layup or a gunner an open 3 point shot).
Modern basketball in a nutshell. It's actually "devolved" to a very simplistic two outcome dynamic that renders 80% of the court pretty much useless (death of the mid-range shot, mid-post play, etc), and when the shot further away is worth more than shots closer to the basket, the sport has a design problem, i.e. 3 pointer are too easy to make now.
I used to try to turn people to hockey. But then I realized popularity is what made the other sports shit, and the reason why I left them
>cuckball
poor bait
Beautiful post. Please save it to a text file, so you can post it again in threads like these.
Really, I'm serious.
Look at that cell key quality skill
>the sport has a design problem, i.e. 3 pointer are too easy to make now.
It's ridiculous to assume that the NBA is responsible for players making more 3s. The players are just better now, plain and simple. With or without handchecking Steph Curry would still be the greatest shooter of all time.
At the end of the day, the NBA has neutered the sport mostly because of the Malice at the Palace and the existence of Allen Iverson, but players are making more threes because a modern NBA player from 1-4 has to be a great shooter just to survive. Otherwise you become a liability.
>niggerhoop
No, stop being a stupid cuck
>The players are just better now, plain and simple.
The NBA has never been slow to institute rule changes and/or design changes (the 3 point line is only about 40 years old) for the "good of the game."
When Mikan dominated inside too much, they widened the lane. When defenses just camped big men in the lane to shut off penetration, they created defensive 3 seconds. I can go on.
A 3 pointer should be "hard," it should be an event, like a homerun or 40 yard bomb. Metrically, it's the best shot in basketball outside of point blank layups. That makes zero sense. The farther shots should be riskier.
In addition, it's leading to death of the low-post game and mid-range shooting. Future of basketball is basically a bunch of Draymond Green type players (positionless players who can play in the pick-and-roll and switch defending pick-and-rolls) anchored by a shooting PG.
Low-post is dying because people with more than 2 braincells figured out having some guy back his ass into another guy for half a possession only to still take a contested hook is fucking stupid.
Mid-range will not die because it's becoming the most uncontested shot in the game. There are already a handful of players that abuse this like Butler and DeRozan.
This. Also, the game is about chucking 3 pointers with little or no tactics. I'll be switching to NHL this season, I'll only watch the NBA playoffs.
Lol, NBA is the man drama league for man children who think they're too smart for wwe.
>Low-post is dying because people with more than 2 braincells figured out having some guy back his ass into another guy for half a possession only to still take a contested hook is fucking stupid.
It's "stupid" now because the 3 point line made it "stupid." Historically, feeding a great big in the low post was the most efficient option for a team offense (low post leads to a beneficial one-on-one matchup or collapses the defense, creating open shooters).
Now, it's much easier to just set a pick at the top of the 3 point line for Curry or another shooter and produce an efficient shot. Efficient shot creation should be difficult is the point I'm getting at. And mastering low-post play was a difficult science and art (the footwork demands, countermove creation, playmaking from the post, etc). Shooters basically existed to punished double teams and collapses.
Basketball is a much more simplistic game with post-play extinct.
No offense built around a midrange shooter(s) is going anywhere in the post-season. Chris Paul led all mid-range shooters shooting 50% from those areas. All a 3 point shooter needs to do to equalize that efficiency is shoot about 34% (a below league average mark).
That's how unbalanced the 3 pointer has made basketball's offensive design. It'll never change, though. Fans love chuckball since it's "fast paced."
>Also, the game is about chucking 3 pointers with little or no tactics.
It's pretty shallow now. Chuck 3s from pick-and-roll sets, penetrate and try to draw fouls, walk-in layups from all the fuckin' spacing loading a rotation with shooters creates.
80-90 % black players? No thanks, French national team in football is more than enough for me.
I stick with NHL and international football.
>Finally, the three has profoundly damaged team offense and nullified chemistry. In the three-point era, four offensive players are transformed into spectators rooting for a teammate to make a long shot. Instead, players should strive to create a better shot, craftily or collectively moving the ball toward the basket. What is better, whether one is watching—or especially playing—than a great juke, or two, three or more guys making synchronized split second moves, decisions and passes that lead to a high percentage shot? It shows that men really can be creative, and care about, communicate and cooperate with others, even if they’re not good at expressing their feelings in words.
There is more "drama" in who will win Wrestlemania than the NBA championship.
NBA is GOAT for background noise
This is why I absolutely loathe the Warriors. I can't even count how many times a team played really fucking good basketball the whole game just to be shot down by a stream of 3 pointers in the 4th. It's frustrating and pointless to watch.
sounds like your teams need to get fucking good
>Modern basketball in a nutshell. It's actually "devolved" to a very simplistic two outcome dynamic that renders 80% of the court pretty much useless (death of the mid-range shot, mid-post play, etc), and when the shot further away is worth more than shots closer to the basket, the sport has a design problem, i.e. 3 pointer are too easy to make now.
the biggest issue is that while a 3 pointer is worth 1.5x as much as a regular basket, it is not 1.5x easier to make. not just distance wise, but also the fact that you are probably going to be more open on a 3 pointer as opposed to a clogged lane
the rockets completely eliminated shooting mid range shots, which makes plenty of sense. why the fuck would you take any shots from the "land of forsaken dreams and abandoned glories" areas of your chart when you can step back a few feet, be more open, and have a shot worth 1.5x more than that shitty mid range one?
>90% black league
>same teams in the Finals every year
>meme 3s are 80% of any given team's offense
>defense cucked to flailing your arms at your opponent and hoping they miss
>average fan cares more about Lebron posting a shirtless video on Instagram than watching their own team play
>referees openly biased toward star players/big markets/ratings, players like Lebron never foul out
>every player wants to team up with the best teams to wield a monopoly over Finals trophies
>if a player doesn't have at least four other superstars he bitches he needs more help
The last two minutes of a close game slow to a crawl. It's excruciating
>was nba watcher for a long time
>finally gave up on it after last season
>try to get into nhl becasue its really exciting
>dont know any rules
>dont know any players
>no attachment to game of hockey
because I'm not a nigger loving cuck
I could give a fuck about seeing some big nigger throw down gorilla dunks and spam 3s with no D. Haven't watched the NBA since Ben Wallace was on the Pistons, what the fuck is exciting about seeing niggers score hundreds of points uncontested?
why cant you morons ever discuss the NBA without spewing racism? theres plenty about the NBA to criticize that you dont need to spew HURRR NIGGER GORILLA SPOOK NIGGER all the time you fucking inbred
Because we're racist and the NBA is all black, I wouldn't ask a black man to watch golf with no Tiger. Fuck off nigger loving cuck
NBA hasn't been good since the 1990's. March Madness is the only worthwhile basketball.
>march madness
if the nba is bad, college basketball is the fucking worst