I just don't like watching the hotdogs grabbing and hanging onto the thing.
Heck, I could do that when I was a freshman in HS.
(I couldn't "slam" or "dunk" the ball,
but I COULD jump up and grab the rim,
so it AIN'T very impressive to see the pros do it all the time.
Low class... verrrrry low class IMHO.)
Actually Willie, I never got interested in the NBA (I think it is that they are just too damn good and make scoring look easy -- I know it's not, but that's the way it seems.)
But I do watch a lot of NCAA B-ball and enjoy it, and they hang on the basket there too. But it is not always, or even usually, about hot dogging. Watch closer. It generally happens when they go up to the basket in such a way that their landing would be dangerous to either themselves or someone else. They grab the basket to allow them to come down without injury which is why the NCAA stopped penalizing it years ago.
I have no problem with the basket hang.