Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


1 posted on 12/14/2024 10:39:09 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies ]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021 next last
To: MinorityRepublican

Raise the men’s baskets to 11 feet and get rid of the 3 point line and shot.


2 posted on 12/14/2024 10:49:01 PM PST by llevrok (“'Remember when' is the lowest form of conversation.” - Tony Soprano)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: All

"The NBA...ratings are down 48% in the last 12 years and they have fallen off a cliff this year and Adam Silver's solution is let's make the courts brighter...Go ask the Democrats. Be warned, once you detach from regular people in America, you will pay a price." - Colin Cowherd pic.twitter.com/V3wifBWu5a— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) December 13, 2024


3 posted on 12/14/2024 10:49:58 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: MinorityRepublican; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; ...
personal note: He's really not talking about the NBA, he's talking about himself. I used to watch his YouTube clips from time to time, but haven't since he said, with that brainless grin and blank unblinking stare, that anyone who doubts some leftist stoogery just can't be talked to or reasoned with so don't bother (I forget if it was about the need for COVID vaccines and masks, or the global warming hoax). I exited the vid and have never gone back.

4 posted on 12/14/2024 10:51:28 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Politics do not make strange bedfellows, and the enemy of your enemy may still be your enemy.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: MinorityRepublican

I used to love the Celtics and the Boston Garden back in the 60’s thru early 80’s. Then I moved to LA. I haven’t cared in 40 years. Good riddance.


5 posted on 12/14/2024 10:53:42 PM PST by Sam Clements
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: MinorityRepublican

Basketball bores me, because it is too easy for these guys to score a basket.


6 posted on 12/14/2024 10:55:26 PM PST by Jonty30 (Genghis Khan did not have the most descendants. His father had more. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: MinorityRepublican

People used to know what channel to find games. Now they don’t, and some need a subscription to watch.


7 posted on 12/14/2024 10:56:37 PM PST by nickcarraway
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: MinorityRepublican

The detachment with America is MUCH more than “load management”.

OUTRAGEOUS Salaries
OUTRAGEOUS Ticket, Concession, and Parking
OUTLANDISH Personal Behavior
CONSTANT Whining to the officials
TOO Much LIBERAL POLITICS - Kerr, Popovich, Doc Rivers, Steph Curry, Lebron James
TOO Many 3 Point attempts
LACK of fundamental team basketball
BRUTALLY BAD (Stars get all the calls) officiating
TOO MANY OLD PLAYERS 36 to 40+ years old
TOO MANY YOUNG PLAYERS - GONE are the days when an early draft choice makes a real impact - The Draft is boring
THE ALL STAR GAME used to be an event 25 years ago. It is not worth watching anymore.


9 posted on 12/14/2024 11:04:17 PM PST by LeonardFMason
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: MinorityRepublican

Viewers, especially young viewers are cutting their cable and satellite cords and subscribing to streaming services. NBA games aren’t always part of the streaming services lineup and as a consequence, game viewership is slipping away.


11 posted on 12/14/2024 11:13:20 PM PST by rexthecat
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: MinorityRepublican

The one and only professional basketball game I attended was when my Dad took me to see the ST. Louis Hawks defeat the Baltimore Bullets.


13 posted on 12/14/2024 11:48:19 PM PST by MCF (If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: MinorityRepublican
Basketball has over saturated the market. There is a game on 365 days a year. NBA, WNBA. Summer League, every college and high school, both men and women.
14 posted on 12/15/2024 12:02:57 AM PST by political1 (Love your neighbors)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: MinorityRepublican

I gave up on sports when they started taking knees, but when I followed basketball something like 2/3’s of the teams made the playoffs and if that’s still true, then why even bother with a regular season.


15 posted on 12/15/2024 12:15:11 AM PST by BobL
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: MinorityRepublican
It's become a very hard sport to watch.

7-footers shooting three's all night?

We do miss the Dr. J/Larry Bird era. And the Walt Frazier/Jerry West era before that.

17 posted on 12/15/2024 2:21:19 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: MinorityRepublican

I lost interest in the NBA when it became a contact sport and the traveling rule became a suggestion.


18 posted on 12/15/2024 3:16:02 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: MinorityRepublican

NBA has become thug ball.
Little defense and guys playing you wouldn’t care to have a beer with.


19 posted on 12/15/2024 4:32:38 AM PST by Joe Boucher (Kimber .45 Be Kind.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: MinorityRepublican

Isn’t there enough probation and parole officers for the players to keep the stands full??


20 posted on 12/15/2024 4:39:21 AM PST by eyeamok
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: MinorityRepublican

Pro B-Ball is pretty much unwatchable...college Hoop is far superior IMHO...


22 posted on 12/15/2024 5:38:23 AM PST by major_gaff (University of Parris Island, Class of '84)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: MinorityRepublican

Watch more hockey. All basketball is unwatchable imo.


24 posted on 12/15/2024 5:48:01 AM PST by Kudsman (Hey,, Democrat,,leave them kids alone!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: MinorityRepublican

Evidently some people are waking up to what the Amish have done to this country and are voting with their pocketbook.


25 posted on 12/15/2024 6:43:26 AM PST by exPBRrat
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: All
It was the NBA that gave the Covid scare full blown status when they suspended their season in March 2020.

In hindsight, I suspect Commissioner Adam Silver was more than pleased to be the tip of the spear, with the overriding mission to destroy the economy and get rid of Trump.
29 posted on 12/15/2024 7:55:54 AM PST by Dan in Wichita
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: MinorityRepublican

The three-point shot ruined basketball.


31 posted on 12/15/2024 8:38:12 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021 next last

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson