What would it take for you to stop watching the NBA? It has

didnt read lmao

>>76540588
>Brazilians being able to read without a head

I want to preface this saying I'm not a Warriors fan, Cavaliers fan or a Raptors fan bitter at the Cavaliers. I enjoy basketball as a person.

I turned the game off after the first quarter of game 4 and didn't even bother tuning into game 5. I have no interest in the next season. The lack of parity is one thing which can make it uninteresting but this kind of officiating is a disgrace. I'm a fan of the sport and want to see it played to it's fullest, not hampered by nonsense.

Frankly it's made me disillusioned with the NHL as well

>>76541155
dude, im a longtime nba fan who switched over to the nhl for the playoffs

imagine my discouragement at an awesome palyoffs to see the championship possibly stolen by the predators by a referees dumb call

>>76540586
You forgot ads on the jerseys

>>76541216
As a new hockey fan, you should realize that was a good call. The rule is that the whistle is blow. When ref can't see it. That sort of thing happens fairly regularly, it's part of the game.

But even without that whistle, it wasn't a goal because of goaltender interference.

>>76541216
There are all kinds of dumb or questionable calls but it's only recently I've really thought about it in relation as to why I'm watching

I don't want to spend hours of my life every week watching games, investing myself in a professional sport altered or potentially decided because of a referee making an awful call out of incompetence, bias or even corruption. I'm not interested in sports as an excuse to just sit around and drink beer, I loved playing sports and I enjoy watching them. Seeing them influenced in these ways leaves me irritated and disappointed.

>>76540586
That fake Lebron graffiti stunt and it's subsequent media coverage (including in-game) did it for me.

Cancelled the NBA package the next day.

Taking up hockey next year.

>>76540586
>What would it take for you to stop watching the NBA?
Nigga I stopped watching years ago and I'm a laker fan

It isn't fun anymore plain and simple

They turned it to black European soccer

>>76541633
Why.... Hockey is an unrewarding trash of a sport where you are unrewarded for progress and control of the match. Then a lot of the play is on the fly strats with minimal thought into it.

The only sport I have interest in watching still is NFL.

>>76541673
You stopped watching it when the Lakers went to shit? How convenient

>>76540586
The draft 'lottery' is ridiculous if youthink about it.

It's almost like it exists so it can be rigged (it does)

>>76540586
Well I'm not going to watch fucking baseball, that's for sure.

>>76541685
NFL isn't around Feb - June. Watched NHL playoffs this year and loved it.

NBA is now Soros-ball. Dead to me.

>>76540586
Basketball takes the most skill faggot. Nobody can dispute this. When it comes to technical control of the ball coupled with footwork, puts basketball ahead of other sports.

You have a point about parity though, but that doesn't take away skill needed to play.

>>76541754
Please. Shaq was highly skilled?

Baseball and hockey take more skill.

>>76541754
what about hockey? There's way more skill involved in skating than running, you have guys trying to hit you the whole time, and you have a goalie trying to stop you from scoring (goaltending is literally illegal in basketball).

I'd also say baseball has a higher skill requirement than basketball too

Nobody is going to stop watching parity is a meme

>>76541713
True.

The lottery alone should be enough to raise suspicion in anyone paying attention.

>>76541800
I already did.

Parity was part of it, the NBA's anti-American garbage was a part too.


DROPPED

>>76541793
Hitting major league pitching is the hardest thing to do in sports.

>>76540586
I was done somewhere around their transgender bathroom bullshit. Now it's gone full on absurd.

Sucks because I was kind of getting into an exciting young Wizards team. Fuck it, guess I'll watch the Caps instead.

>>76541846
this is true

Eliminate playoffs. Stabilish a round robin system (every team playing each other home and away).

Victory - 3 points
Victory in ET - 2 points
Loss in ET - 1 point
Loss - 0 points

Gave up that trash after the 2002 Kings-Lakers refball and haven't looked back

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>>76540586
>A referee literally fixed a playoff series for gambling purposes and went to prison for it, what should be the ultimate bar-none biggest controversy a professional sports league has ever faced, yet people continue to watch.
>Fans say freely and openly that referees turn a blind eye to certain fouls and infractions, and openly debate referee conspiracies about calling games certain ways to get the league the result they want for money/TV ratings, yet people continue to watch. Case in point: these 2017 Finals with Games 3 and 4

Do you think this was legit?

I'm skeptical.

The NBA is obvs in cahoots w/ the corrupt media.

If they wanted this story killed, it would have been.

I suspect, it was a set up so they could show that they "actively fight corruption".

Their endgame was obviously legalized gambling, which Adam Silver has straight up said was one of his goals.

If they got gambling legalized.... then the real corruption could begin..

>>76542023
is what legit? the donaghy thing, or the 2017 finals rigging stuff?

>>76542045
Not that anon, but he's obviously referring to the Donaghy 'scandal'.

>>76541633
>taking up a sport
Literally laughing out loud at this

>>76542089
What's funny about that? It's like taking up a tv show.

>>76541767
Shaq was highly skilled. Why the question mark

>>76542102
You probably unironically believe this

>>76542105
No he wasn't. He was bigger than everyone else.

A million amateurs can shoot better than Shaq. Literally. Guys on highschool JV squads can.

Fuck off.

>>76542121
Dude fuck off with your nonsense.

>>76542045
>>76542087
Yes, was referring to Donaghy. I don't buy it at all. Especially seeing the collusion between the NBA and the media the last year or so. Doesn't add up.


Donaghy was a small-time fall guy, used so they could try and get away with much bigger shit.

>>76542176
>collusion between the NBA and the media the last year or so

what do you guys mean by this?

>>76542219
'progressive' media, 'progressive' league

You really need this explained to you?

>>76542219

nigger shit for niggers

>>76542275
Fuck off with your race baiting shill

>>76542264
so just political stuff? yeah that stuff annoys me too with the commissioner and players getting politics into sports but i thought there was some legit conspiracy, like the media was propagating stories about the nba or soemthing

>>76542289
They are. What do you think that moronic Lebron's gate fake stunt was about?

What do you think that Charles Oakley at MSG story was?

And they're definitely propagating anti-NFL stories as well.

>>76540586
I would sooner watch every baseball game than every basketball game

>>76540586
>Individual players in the sport are more important and are promoted more than the teams they play for.

this is true. They use the Hollywood celeb model.

Not surprising since the same people own both.

>>76540586
I stopped during the Jordan days when people stopped giving a shit about traveling just to let niggers dunk more
https://youtube.com/watch?v=rjM4z-M7gcA

>>76542130
There is more to basketball than shooting threes. Youd know this if youd watched the sport

>>76542480
Fuck off

Shaq couldn't even make free throws.

>>76540586
Have big men able to actually shoot. It's literally the first thing you learn, why can't they do it? Durant is as tall as some centers and drains 3's consistently. At least be good at free throws. If a 10 year old can do it so should Deandre

>>76542565
>15x all star
>career double double
Fuck off underage scum

>>76542599
Not the argument.

Everyone is aware that he was bigger and stronger than everyone else.


Skilled....not so much.

>>76542593
Because most big men (not all) are in the league because they are bigger and stronger than everyone else.

Which was a huuuuuuuuuuge advantage, especially in the pre space and pace memechuck era.

They weren't super disciplined super skilled athletes.

Confession /sp/ I've lost interest in the NBA and during the NFL offseason I have taken an interest into gookclick.

>>76542650
skill
skil/
noun
the ability to do something well; expertise.

I stop watching when my team (Atlanta) gets put out of the playoffs.

I enjoy this sport significantly less than I do any others. Mostly because it's been the same teams and players (LeBron) winning every year. I get he's a great player but the super team thing he started just makes it less fun to watch.

>>76542694
Yes, Shaq was an expert at being bigger than everyone else.

Fuck off.

>>76542732
Another cringeworthy post. Heres a (You)

>>76540586
I haven't watched it since like 5 years ago outside the finals

>>76541685
>The only sport I have interest in watching still is NFL.

The NFL is the worst it's ever been. Defense has been systematically destroyed, the rules get worse every year, there's more penalties, more commercials, more challenges, and less gameplay.

>>76542998
i feel like every sport is dying man. i mean at least with the NFL, you only have 16 games so every game is very important

how the fuck are we supposed to watch an 82 game regular season NBA when the regular season is useless, or ONE HUNDRED SIXTY TWO baseball games

>>76542005
this

Never watched another game.

I was a die hard nba fan who tried to watch as many games as possible (given my location, that was hard). Then every year my enthusiasm waned. The past year I've only watched the finals. This season I haven't watched a single game. The league is truly shit.

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>>76542130

>>76541633
That was perplexing. There were no pictures or closed-circuit cameras on the day it was done. Truly 100% False flag.

>>76540586

I stopped awhile ago. I'm not black or poor so that might have something to do with it.

>>76546245
What does this proove? There are kids on every playground in America who can do that. Shaq wasn't exceptionally skilled, he was exceptionally big.

True of 90% of the league desu

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>What would it take for you to stop watching the NBA?

I did long ago. Clear outcomes are influenced intentionally by officials. So that, I guess.

>>76540586
When they finally stop giving a shit about small market teams all together. I can't fault the success of the Warriors cause most of that is due to the draft. Only thing they did was get Durant so they could make sure that no one else can beat them. Both Curry and Durant will resign with one of them taking less money. Klay and Green are still under contract for another 3-4 years. So kudos to them for making all the right moves.

Lebron(I'm a fan of his) is gonna start crying that he needs more around him which might bring in another big name super star.

I can see these young super stars that are on small market teams that are actually showing some good potential leave so they can form another group of super stars just to compete which you can't really blame them I guess.

I can see the argument that people make saying that it brings in more money, but the complete lack of competitiveness in the sport is just starting to get sad. Sure you have teams that have young talented stars right now, but once those contracts are up do you honestly expect them to stay with a team that has a smaller brand name?

As far as watching goes. I knew the outcome of the finals before the season even started and was only willing to watch this years finals if it would have made it to game 7. And I'm willing to bet that it will probably be the same outcome in the 2017, 2018 and possibly 2019 season.

>Biggest scandal?

What are the black sox?

>>76549861
I wouldn't mind watching lopsided games if I felt the games were being officiated fairly, just because I like basketball. But what the NBA has now is both garbage games and garbage officiating, and there's nothing worth watching about that at all.

>>76540586
I already stopped watching halfway through last season. I still like to shitpost about it though.

>>76541767
baseball literally takes less skill than track

>Team I like loses
>I-it's rigged. I'm going to that semen slurping ice skating sport!

>>76550814
You can't be this stupid. It's impossible.

>>76550835
Literally no one itt this thread has said anything remotely like that
here come the shills

>>76542023
this


they were a little too eager to get that Donaghy story out there

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>>76550835

My team is the greatest franchise in the history of the sport. I'll always follow and support them but I don't have cable TV so I don't really follow them. But today's game holds very little interest to me. The 3-point shot was meant to help open up the game in the paint, not eliminate it.

I was a huge lebron fan until the warriors swept him this year. (Let's be honest, game 4 doesn't count, that was a sweep boys)

I was really excited that I got to see potentially the greatest player of all time in his prime. Now that he's no longer in his prime, and certainly removed from all talks of being the greatest ever, I simply have no reason to watch any more.

What makes this even worse is that the golden state warriors might actually be the greatest team ever constructed and they're going to waltz their way undefeated to a championship each year.... yeah no thanks. It's fun to watch great players like westbrook, kobe, and lebron will themselves to victory, but what's not fun is watching a bunch of millenialls team up and crush everyone easily. This semen slurping sport isn't for me I guess.

>>76550946
Not him, but I agree about the 3-point shot. Things will get boring quick if every team resorts to ballchuck.

>>76550994
>Things will get boring quick if every team resorts to ballchuck.
they already have.

>>76550814
hitting major league pitching is the hardest thing to do in sports. fuck outta here.

Isn't it crazy how the NBA is probably the most controversial, complained about league in America?

Stay salty, bronsexuals.

>>76554125
For good reason.

It's shoved down our throats among other things.

>>76540586
Lebron retiring.

>>76554191
nfl is shoved way more down our throats though

its still way more watched and not nearly as cirticized and the NBA is

>>76554557
Not even close


PUHleeze

ESPN attacks NFL 24/7

fuck off

So this is /nba/ right?

I have a question for you niggas. How come people say Kobe ran Shaq out of town when it seems like Shaq is just a big baby bitch who can't take any banter? (As seen with based Chuck and all his stupid ejections over his career).

>>76554621
Everyone hated Kobe. Dude was/is a phoney.

>>76554621
Nigga fuck off.

Start another 40 NBA threads and samefag some conversation.


The fact that the NBA shills on here is justanother reason not to watch.

I've been a Warriors fan for 19 years but fuck the NBA now.

I don't even hate jews in a /pol/tard way but damn, they really never know when to stop pushing the envelope. When Adam Silver took over the NBA it was cool to see him embrace social media and use it for things like extending streaming outreach, uploading highlights immediately, etc. But now he literally uses it for fucking hiring shills and pushing narratives not even closely related to basketball. He contracts out some of the pajeet tech firms here in Silicon Valley to push stuff on social media, forums, etc. Even pushing a lot of anti-Trump and certain porn stuff that I'd rather not go into. Silver's people threatened Steph Curry's wife to become a public slut.... I know there's not much proof I can give but wait a few months, there are a lot of future leaks coming.

>>76554835
Yup. You can tell. They do it on this very forum and it's very obvious.

It's not a meme.....it's (((NBA))) for real.

>>76554835
Nice post. Pretty much spot on.

but

>Silver's people threatened Steph Curry's wife to become a public slut....

what do you mean by this? This is new to me.

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>>76554835
I believe it. Curious about the porn, and Curry's wife stuff. The anti-Trump stuff is obvious.What do you mean by leaks?

>>76554835
im technically jewish myself (although barely at all, dont practice any holidays or belive in god, hate israel, but my mom is jewish so tehnically i am) and even i hate silver as a jew

>>76554962
1/2 Jew here (not really though, dad's senpai is Jewish)

Hate Silver.

Runs league in typical tacky overbearing Jewish way.

But lets be real, Silver does what he's told.

The fucking talent is garbage desu. Forget all the conspiracies. The players coming in aren't that good. Sixes get 50 straight top picks, can't do shit. Lakers get 50 straight top picks still suck. Twwolves suck. List goes on and on. All these one and done faggots from college are decent not great. when there is no game changing talent coming in, teams can't get more competitive.
Honestly they should downsize at this point. 32 teams is too many. 82 games is too many. 4 rounds of playoffs is too many.

>>76554835
This post intrigues me. Is dirt coming out on the NBA?

>>76554835
>and certain porn stuff that I'd rather not go into.
BLACKED shit.

C'mon those dots aren't too hard to connect.

>>76555079
Yeah, duh.

NBA = Israel

>>76550962
Now this is an interesting falseflag.

>>76555413
Yeah one of the shills put some effort in on that one.

>>76554835

Tell us more anon.

>>76554835
>certain porn stuff that I'd rather not go into
Come again?

>>76555503
It's definitely BLACKED porn.

>>76555561
And the proof of that is...?

>>76555590
Educated guess

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>>76550962
>>76549861
Lebron and his assistant Kyrie carried the Cavs to the playoffs. Lebron may be the GOAT, but he can't do it all on his own. The cavs bench was especially trash

>>76555629
What's that supposed to mean?

we all know it's BLACKED porn. Shit, they spam that stuff on here. duh

The real question is what they wanted to do with Curry's wife.

>>76540586
I agree with everything you said. The NBA is shit.

I'm from Ohio. I didn't watch before LeBron and I probably will not watch after he retires. I'm here because da land got a championship.

>>76555696
Why are we still so certain that a multi-billion dollar sports association would try to recoup their losses by planting plants on a sports section of an anime imageboard inhabited by people who stream more often than they even turn on the television rather than it just being rabid sports fans and trolls being rabid sports fans and trolls?

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>>76555995
>NBA dindu nuffin

please it's OBVIOUS


fuck off, you dudes suck at your job. try some fucking subtlty next time.


and you can drop the dumb as fuck 'ratings' bullshit already. Even the dummies know that's bullshit now.

>>76556066
>please it's OBVIOUS
How so?
>fuck off, you dudes suck at your job. try some fucking subtlty next time.
Not a shill, just tired of seeing you in nearly every NBA thread.
>and you can drop the dumb as fuck 'ratings' bullshit already. Even the dummies know that's bullshit now.
Then why else would the "shills" be here?

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>>76556212
->it's all one person

Read the fucking thread shill. There are plenty of reasons people are sick of this league, it's politics, false flags, social engineering and 'marketing' techniques.

>>76556262
>->it's all one person
Didn't say that, but you using the same half-dozen Pepe images and "reddit spacing" makes you stick out.

>There are plenty of reasons people are sick of this league, it's politics, false flags, social engineering and 'marketing' techniques.
I'm well aware, but why here of all places instead of a site that actually shows up on the first page of a Google search for "sports forums"?

>>76556344
I'm a sports fan. And used to be a gig Knicks fan.

It's not my fault thebNBA decided to go full retard.

At this point it's legitimately anti-American and I hope it dies.

>>76540586
I still watching NBA because one reason: Trust the Process

The reconstruction of the 76ers is something interesting to watch. But it's true, the league is extremely boring now.

>>76554890
>>76554946
>>76555059
>>76555454
>>76555503
I'll place every individual piece of what I said into two categories: fact and strong rumor. As for the "leaks", I'm sure it won't be as glamorous as Wikileaks but we'll see some digital/financial evidence of shilling surface. They contract out really cheap shills who leave a fat trace. The more interesting stuff though? The NBA is always trying to consolidate media to increase power, but they’re not doing a very good job and there are still a TON of journalists willing to report any scoop.

Fact:
>Silver hires shills who obviously push NBA drama as expected, as well as anti-Trump and violent BLM sentiment.


Strong rumor:
>As well as the anti-Trump shilling, some of Silver's associates (not directly affiliated with the NBA) have acquired porn sites that are similar to Blacked, that are shilled by the aforementioned shills… this is compounded on a rumor that NBA players are getting paid to impregnate rich women whose husbands want their kids to be athletes at any cost. For the record I don't think the impregnation thing is true...

>Steph Curry's wife wants to basically be a classic southern "traditional" wife who teaches girls to cook, clean, go to church—especially focusing on inner city girls. It’s said some "PR" people straight from the NBA either blackmailed or threatened her to publicly give off the implication of being promiscuous, as she is in an "influential" position (she in reality is very loyal to Steph). Steph and her were going to farms in Napa Valley and shit all the time ever since he came to GS, until last year when she started going to clubs with random celebrities, dressing in slutty outfits, etc.

>>76556543
wow.


None of this really surprises too much though.

'''They''' are running the NBA the same way '''they''' run Hollywood.

I only watch the NBA finals

everything else is worthless

>>76556543
None of this surprises me at all. I hope it comes out though. The NBA has really crossed the line lately.

>>76556543
>>Silver hires shills who obviously push NBA drama as expected, as well as anti-Trump and violent BLM sentiment.
Buy.
>As well as the anti-Trump shilling, some of Silver's associates (not directly affiliated with the NBA) have acquired porn sites that are similar to Blacked, that are shilled by the aforementioned shills
Names?
>this is compounded on a rumor that NBA players are getting paid to impregnate rich women whose husbands want their kids to be athletes at any cost. For the record I don't think the impregnation thing is true...
Sell, cuckolding entering the mainstream was a mistake but I agree that that sounds a bit far-fetched.
>Ayesha
I could buy that as well.

>>76556543
'They' do the same exact shit in the mainstream music industry. Some of the acts are bought and paid for, and some are just straight up fake plants.

>>76540586
I already did. Didn't watch more than 10 minutes of NBA playoffs this year.
Trash sport for trash plebs

>>76540586
This season did it for me. The NBA is completely unwatchable.

There is no competition anymore. The Warriors can't be stopped, and to think otherwise is just wishful thinking.

Adam Silver keeps pushing social justice and other left-wing bullshit where it has no place.

Doris Burke is a godawful commentator.

The game has been reduced to a three-point chucking contest that only Golden State can win. The whole thing is a fucking joke.

>>76540586
I quit several years ago when I realized the refs were clearly manipulating games. Sucks because I was a fan for years but it's a sham.

>>76557137
yeah sucks