Posted on 05/26/2016 6:32:09 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Charles Barkley is walking entertainment and the brilliant Inside the NBA would not be the same without him and his off-the-cuff opinions (which is a great thing in sports talk, not so much with national policy).
But he remains the leader of the annoying #getoffmylawn crew of older players who don’t like today’s game.
Barkley was on the Bickley and Marotta on Arizona Sports 98.7 FM last week and went off again on the state of the game.
“People think us old guys hate when we talk about it. It has nothing to do with the Warriors’ greatness, LeBron’s greatness. But I’ve never seen the NBA as bad as it is, and I’ve been saying it the last three or four years. We’ve got too many young players coming out of college that don’t know how to play. It’s frustrating for me because I want to see competitive basketball.
“We took a survey on our crew … How many actual NBA teams would you buy season tickets for?” he added. “Four in the west and Cleveland obviously in the east. That’s not good for our league.”
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My greatest memories of the NBA was int he 80s..those Celtics teams with DJ, Mchale and Bird..playing the Lakers,and that playoff series with the Hawks and Nique.
It just doesnt interest me these days. I agree with Barkely
80s and 90s NBA was the golden age.
No felons, no tattoos. Actually presentable guys that were heroes to millions of kids around the world.
And the 1992 Olympics still is one of my favorite memories of basketball.
I don’t agree that the 3-pointers ruined the game. Basketball had become just “gorilla ball” and the 3-pointers put the skill of shooting back into the game.
Agree 100%. Traveling, carrying, hanging on the rim....
“...haven’t watched the NBA since da Bulls had their run...”
Maybe 15 years since I have watched an NBA game. I used to watch all the time.
love the three should make a dunk a 1 point basket
I watched the Suns last good season two years ago, but they blew up the team and still can’t really deal with Markief Morris, who is facing some sort of sex charges with his brother (since traded).
I think it’s an ugly league. Nash and the Suns made it exciting, but the entire game now is pick and roll or three-point shooting. Nothing like the old Walt Frazier/Bill Bradley Knicks or even the thuggish but fun Pistons.
I lived in Milwaukee when the Bucks and the Marquette Warriors were the champs. Kareem was my neighbor and friend. Then I moved back to Cleveland. Went to two Cavs games, and gave up on basketball! My goodness! They really sucked back then!
I’ve been saying this for a decade. At some point in the 1990s....they peaked out and all these whiz kids showed up from various colleges, and they went in a different direction. It might be entertaining but I’d almost go back to watch games from the 1970s and 1980s as being interesting.
It’s just turrible.
...haven’t watched the NBA since da Bulls had their run...
Agree, Micheal was the greatest, he pioneered modern basketball, although being from Indiana it is kinda in my blood and had kinda watched it with little enthusiasm until the Pacers had the Basketbrawl in Detroit.
After that I stopped watching the NBA all together although I watched some clips of the Warriors and Stephen Curry can shoot!!
Right that’s the era I stopped watching too.
I think the biggest thing to me was the players started acting like jerks. Like they would slam dunk with no one within 20 feet and slap their chest like it was this amazing feat for this guy. And that made me think, why are the other players allowing this mouth breather to act like that? No one cares about the dumb profession enough to make sure the jerks don’t get to define it? How hard are they really playing?
Same thing with the NFL. They don’t care enough about it enough that they allow their peers to perform fruity celebration dances for crap plays that every one knows doesn’t matter? That is complete garbage, right?
Freegards
Had to get a Trump dig in, did ya, Kurt?
I had some business with Parrish when he was living in Weston——a really NICE guy.
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Legendary Marquette coach Al McGuire suggested limiting teams to no more than 32 feet of height on the court at any one time. :)
Loved to run the playground courts on balmy summer evenings as a teen . Enjoyed watching the NBA back in the Bird / Majic and MJ days . They entirely lost me with over the top tatoos and crazy hairdos - seems like a traveling circus nowadays ..
“And they take 3-5 steps every time someone drives to the hoop.”
So I’m not the only one who noticed. I thought I was hallucinating. I don’t think they even bother calling traveling anymore, they could start at half court.
“One of the first things id do raise the basket 18 inches”
Yes! I want to see them find people who are 8 feet tall to play the game.
“.....it depends on what era’s ruled are going to be
played under.”
Completely concur.
I am not a big fan of the NBA but it appears to me that
the league used to be more or less rigged in favor of
certain franchises and certain players. That applied to
everything from draft selections to foul calls. I favor
today’s NBA which seems a little less like the World
Wrestling Entertainment organization than it did in
Barkley’s time.
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