Things that piss me off about the NBA

-How analysts ride whichever team is having a good season. For example, I cannot watch a basketball show with hearing about how great Dallas is or how great Phoenix is. I KNOW! I want to know about the troubles of say a team like Sacramento. I already know the Mavs and the Suns are great.

-How some arenas play other games or college games during a live game. For example, today I was watching my Lakers play the Grizzlies and while Lamar Odom is shooting free throws, the fans are cheering their asses off because a game from the sweet sixteen is being played. If you want to watch that game, then don't buy the tickets and stay home.

-How referees treat rookies with 0 respect, and how they treat some superstars as if the air around them is sacred.

-How some critics only talk about how good a player is, and how some critics only talk about how bad a player is. What can't there be someone in the middle?

-How if Kobe scores 50, and gets 20 free throws, it wasn't impressive because he got 20 free throws, and if Wade scores 50 and gets 20 free throws, hes great at driving and getting contact.

-How the NBA is stupid with suspensions.

-How the NBA is stupid with rulings.

-How the NBA is stupid with employing of referees.

-How the NBA is so worried about its imaging, and doesn't realize how bad its marketing is.

-How the NBA ride players since their draft day, for marketing reasons, without realizing that'll you'll need a lot more than one player to sell things.

-Stu Jackson.

-And last, but CERTAINLY, not least, David Stern.

Speaking of things you hate about the NBA, who see's another suspension coming for Kobe? I'm sure fans in New York were pissed when they suspended him for his only game at MSG.

MJ23 wrote:-How if Kobe scores 50, and gets 20 free throws, it wasn't impressive because he got 20 free throws, and if Wade scores 50 and gets 20 free throws, hes great at driving and getting contact.

You forget to mention that Wade is nothing without those three zebras.

Another thing - last season, there was a foul called on LeBron, then you see one ref whisper something into the other refs ear, and they change the call. LeBron is great and all, but what the hell is that?

-Stu - pid Jackson. That was hilarious.



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MJ23 wrote:-How some arenas play other games or college games during a live game. For example, today I was watching my Lakers play the Grizzlies and while Lamar Odom is shooting free throws, the fans are cheering their asses off because a game from the sweet sixteen is being played. If you want to watch that game, then don't buy the tickets and stay home.

The lone bright spot in Memphis.


Great post, though.

MaSSaCrE wrote:Speaking of things you hate about the NBA, who see's another suspension coming for Kobe? I'm sure fans in New York were pissed when they suspended him for his only game at MSG.

MJ23 wrote:-How if Kobe scores 50, and gets 20 free throws, it wasn't impressive because he got 20 free throws, and if Wade scores 50 and gets 20 free throws, hes great at driving and getting contact.

You forget to mention that Wade is nothing without those three zebras.

Another thing - last season, there was a foul called on LeBron, then you see one ref whisper something into the other refs ear, and they change the call. LeBron is great and all, but what the hell is that?

-Stu - pid Jackson. That was hilarious.



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MJ23 wrote:-How some arenas play other games or college games during a live game. For example, today I was watching my Lakers play the Grizzlies and while Lamar Odom is shooting free throws, the fans are cheering their asses off because a game from the sweet sixteen is being played. If you want to watch that game, then don't buy the tickets and stay home.

The lone bright spot in Memphis.


Great post, though.

Thanks. But Wade is something without the referees. Just not very much. If he didn't get all those calls he would probably average 23 and 7, instead of 28 and 7.

- Floppers
- Technical fouls
- NBA on ABC
- How the Eastern Conference is so inferior to the West
- No 1-and-1 rule
- 'fans' like nameant
- Wearing road jerseys at home and vice versa
- Defense has gone downhill
- Lack of talent at the C position
- Shoot-first PGs
- David Stern
- Las Vegas still doesn;t have a team