Tuesday, December 7, 2010

10 Things I Hate About the NBA

Boy, it was really hard to watch last Thursday’s return to Cleveland by Lebron.  It was not a hard prediction, but I did project in my previous blog that the fans would make Lebron feel the “heat”.  They did that and it probably stung for about a quarter before Miami dominated the “contest” and made it a non-event.  Lebron had perhaps his best game of the season.  In watching the game, it reminded me of everything I absolutely detest about the NBA.  Here they are in no particular order:

  1. Too many teams make the playoffs.  Why play 82 games during the regular season?
  2. Games are hideously expensive.  To sit in the nosebleed section costs at least $50. 
  3. Related to #2 – players make way too much money.
  4. Too much stupid stuff on the sidelines, before and during the game. 
  5. Players falling in love with 3 point shot.
  6. Celebration of the individual and not the team.
  7. Players from opposite teams are too cozy.  What happened to the competitive fire
  8. Too many foul shots and some really ugly foul shooting (Shaq, Ben Wallace, Dwight Howard).  How could an NBA player shoot 50% from the foul line?
  9. The really dumb rule which allows you to call time out while falling down. 
  10. Too many games decided in 4th quarter.  A foul call here or there changes too many games.

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