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The NBA might appeal to someone, it did me once, when players could actually shoot a basketball from more than 3 feet and could hit a free throw. All the NBA is today, is a bunch of high school players who could not pass the ACT test to get into college, or quit college because they could not hack it. All they can do is DUNK or shoot 40-foot 3 point attempts. Hell, I can stand 25 feet from the basket and hit 3 of 10 shots. And the consider that good. The NBA is no defense, shoot, pass behind the back three times, and quit dribbling 10 feet from the basket, taking 4 or 5 steps to dunk the ball. Used too, they called travels after 2 steps, but what the heck, we wanna see Shaq dunk again, like his other 3 million dunks we missed. He cannot shot beyond 6 feet. At least Jabbar learned to shoot the sky hook from 6 to 10 feet from the basket to improve his game. Not these cruds. I quit going to the Supersonic games several years ago. I simply got tired of watching street ball for $45 a pop from the nose bleed seats. Now, ESPN carries that garbage half the night, local street dunk-a-thons. I loved it when college outlawed the dunk many years ago. It actually made them learn to play the damned game. The NBA sucks. I no longer watch it and refuse to even check the scores. 95% of them are nothing short of big mouth punks.

The NBA might appeal to someone, it did me once, when players could actually shoot a basketball from more than 3 feet and could hit a free throw. All the NBA is today, is a bunch of high school players who could not pass the ACT test to get into college, or quit college because they could not hack it.
All they can do is DUNK or shoot 40-foot 3 point attempts. Hell, I can stand 25 feet from the basket and hit 3 of 10 shots. And the consider that good. The NBA is no defense, shoot, pass behind the back three times, and quit dribbling 10 feet from the basket, taking 4 or 5 steps to dunk the ball. Used too, they called travels after 2 steps, but what the heck, we wanna see Shaq dunk again, like his other 3 million dunks we missed. He cannot shot beyond 6 feet. At least Jabbar learned to shoot the sky hook from 6 to 10 feet from the basket to improve his game. Not these cruds.
I quit going to the Supersonic games several years ago. I simply got tired of watching street ball for $45 a pop from the nose bleed seats. Now, ESPN carries that garbage half the night, local street dunk-a-thons. I loved it when college outlawed the dunk many years ago. It actually made them learn to play the damned game.

The NBA sucks. I no longer watch it and refuse to even check the scores. 95% of them are nothing short of big mouth punks.

Good rant.

Before anything else, THANK YOU for your service to our nation. We get to do a lot of fun things because of people like you watching over us.

Someone said once that sports (I'll use baseball to keep the example short) is the only profession where if you are successful 20% of the time, you can get a marginal job; 30%, you make millions; 40%, they make a bronze statue out of you, rename fields after you and retire your jersey.

Other sports "success rates":

Hockey..."one out of five" (goals/shots)
Basketball..."five out of ten" (jump shots)
Soccer...don't ask.

I've not paid to attend a basketball game in at least 13 years, back at the old Forum in Inglewood, and have only attended one game since...last year, a free lower bowl ticket for the Lakers vs the Spurs at Staples...when the Lakers sucked. Hockey is more of my favorite, but I don't overpay to watch that, either.

They'll get over it. If not, they can take my place...one day at my job, great as it is, and they'll be begging to go back to their "oppressive" careers!