It is not a black/white issue. The black Lakers won more championships in the 80's than the Celtics. And like those Celtics they would destroy any team in todays league. You can call it black basketball but it is realy junk basketball, street basketball, the kind of crap you play on the playground and white kids in America play the same junk ball. It is a game that is dominated by players "making their moves" There is no offense, there is no defense. There is really nothing you can watch on NBA basketball that you can go down to the local park and see.
This is a black guy saying this. Otherwise he would have gotten in big, big trouble.
Those Lakers and Celtics teams from the 80s were much more than just Bird and Magic, they were great teams, period.
I agree, but don't you still have to term it "black basketball"?
I would prefer to call it "street basketball" as in; The 2004 Olympics marked the end of the illusion that US Street Basketball was superior to the rest of the world.
But it begs the obvious point that you simply can't say out loud in our society- the term "street" refers to black ghettos, so this undisciplined work ethic, resulting in this unbelievable embarrassment of 3 (and counting) USA losses when we'd lost one other time, when the officials cheated for the Soviets in 72-in 80 years. Its a game we invented, and this is an indictment of that entire thug mentality NBA fans have allowed to take over the sport.
They should take away Lebron James' shoe contract and give it to one of the Argentinians who whooped him.