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I would like to start this entry by saying I am extremely embarrassed (and ashamed) to be sharing this website with someone who was a “devotee of all things Road Rules and Real World.” There is nothing worse in this world than reality TV, and these two horrid shows spawned the onslaught of crap we now see on a nightly basis…enter the NBA playoffs. They could also be confused with a reality TV show, which makes this a perfect segue, if I may say so myself. I painfully sat through these playoffs and watched what only a few people (mainly analysts who get paid buckets of money to talk about it) can call professional basketball. Let me first start by saying that if it wasn’t for Lebron James or Kobe Bryant, the NBA would have nothing to talk about. If anyone watched the playoffs, you would know that every other word or promo was about one of them and how they “might see each other in the finals.”
That never happened, and nor did any good basketball. The best match-up offered was Celtics-Bulls in the first round and that was it. That game had big shots, young and old big-name players, and many overtime’s – which I thoroughly enjoy. Other than that, I am not sure what took place over the past month can be called pro-basketball. For starters, no one chooses to play defense. However, that has always been the case in the NBA. However, this year it seemed like those who did play D, got rewarded with fouls every 20 seconds. No one can touch Kobe or LeBron, or even stand too close to them, without them being sent to the free-throw line. A perfect example was the NBA finals themselves – I don’t think I have ever seen a more poorly called game. No one was allowed to even contest a Pau Gasol shot, but an Lakers player – as well as Laker fans – were allowed to piggy-back Dwight Howard during his shot attempts (the ones that he wasn’t rifling off the back of the rim in attempt to execute a hook-shot).
A little bit ago, David Stern was on some ESPN radio show talking about how he would love to see a replay system installed, but don’t think it will ever happen. He was right, but it won’t be because of the reason he mentioned: the game would be too long because every call could be reviewed. Oh no. It is because officials would be exploited for how difficult there job really is…and how poorly they are at doing it. Then players would see how often they really do just plain out miss a shot. How many times have you seen a player take a shot, have their hip touched by a defenders pinky finger after a failed rejection, and the ball go clanking off the rim only to be greeted by the sound of whistle and “shouting foul!” to follow?
If the NBA wants to salvage its dying fan-base and money problems, then they need to do two things. One, stop guaranteeing players money, do it like every other league does (notice how you are the only ones to do it differently and you are the only ones with the problem?). Two, relax on the calls, just because a superstar misses, doesn’t automatically mean he was fouled. Let the players play D – college basketball does it that way and it is much more exciting. Playing defense and not having players score 60 a game is a good thing, unless Ron Artest’s friends are there…maybe someone might get upset and start impaling players with table legs.
1st off your just a Kobe hater because he allegedly raped a woman and 2nd off Ron Artest did the right thing by going into the stands when he was hit with a beer. That’s why God did not make me a pro athlete.