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I was a Celtics fan at the time, and boy, oh boy, did our teams have some heated basketball games back then or what?

I will say this: there may be something to what Scotty Pippin said.

For me, the Michael Jordan Era was the dividing line between Basketball Then and Basketball Now.

Something changed, I think it was defensive basketball just completely left the league, and it was ALL about scoring after that. Sure, there was still defense, but back then, it seemed like MAD, no holds barred, defense.

Funny. I used to be a huge hockey fan, and I stopped watching both Basketball and Hockey around the same time, in the Nineties.

I stopped watching hockey, because the clutching and grabbing trap game became excruciating to watch.

I stopped watching basketball because the up and down the floor scoring became completely boring. The last game I ever went to at Boston Garden in 1994 when Robert Parish was the last one there, but the game had already changed. Watching that game, it was like watching a ping pong match. Up the floor...score. Down the floor...score. Up the floor...score.

Sigh. I enjoyed watching basketball when players like Bird, McHale, Laimbeer and Rodman would go at each other in a game with hammer and tongs. How those teams and players seemed to hate each other, and as a fan...who wanted it any other way!