State of the NBA

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Honestly I'm pretty much over it.

I was a Lakers fan in the 90s and it was a great time to be an NBA fan... you had teams like the Lakers themselves with Nick the Quick, Eddie Jones, etc, and they were fun to watch, it was a blast to watch them play and I even met a few of them in person. Even though they didn't win it all, in some ways I liked those teams more than the championship teams.

Shaq was great too when he came, all the teams were good and people played hard...

Then the 2000s came and they won their championship, and two others... and everything I think kind of changed, also with Kobe. Suddenly it was all about winning and championships, people ignored all the other players, Stockton and Malone... Gary Payton Shawn Kemp and the Sonics.

Allen Iverson and the Sixers... Clyde the Glide for Portland and Hakeem the dream and the Rockets..

I used to know all the players and all their kind of nicknames. Even the older players.. the big O Oscar Robertson, Wilt the Stilt, Zeke from Cabin Creek.

But honestly I think after that Lakers bit and the aftermath... it just didn't feel the same, even those 2 championships with Pau Gasol were more depressing than anything, like they just had to win to satisfy Kobe and that's all there was to it, it didn't matter about the fun or enjoyment, just winning.

Things got even worse also with the Spurs and others, everyone just wanted to build a Dynasty, even though the Celtics and Lakers things just kinda happened, it wasn't the point per se.

The Suns did a lot of this, also, and were just kinda breaking rules like the influx of foreign players.. I mean I get it you bring in an established 29 year old Argentinian player they're going to be really good and give you an advantage, if you all you care about is winning like Gregg Poppafuck.