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ipark1303 Well Established Member

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Hi guys!

I have been to a NBA game between NJ Nets and Toronto Raptors....

I do not know you guys, but I really miss the Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, Isiah Thomas, etc. etc. era.

What's your opinion on this?
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To me the NBA is no fun to watch. I used (well, when I lived in Alexandria) to get mini-season tickets (usually about 13 games) to see the Bullets & later the Wizards. But, I've grown tired of the NBA stlye of basketball. And how much tickets are now.


Billbill13 Well Established Member

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I think it's still fun to watch live, we go to PHX and LA couple times a year to catch games. Also will be attending the NBA All-Star game in a couple of weeks. But I can't stand to watch it on TV any more.

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I think that I have been watching more NBA this year for 1 reason and 1 reason only, the amazing game winning streaks that the suns and mavs have put on. Other than that I think it is boring because when youw atch a team like the Lakers, I just can't stand Kobe b/c in my opinion he is a ball hog and should not start over Nash in the NBA all star game...what ajoke...oh hi guys im back
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Not for a Celtics fan. I grew up during the Bird, Parish, McHale era and remember as a very young fan Havilichek, Cowans etc. Poor Red must be rolling in his grave right now . . .

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The NBA used to be my favorite sport to watch. I wouldn't miss any games that were televised on TNT, TBS, NBC, etc. I loved it.

The older I get, however, the more I start to hate the NBA. It's all about the individuals now, and I don't care for that. If I want to watch an individual sport, I'll watch golf or tennis, and we all know I do too much of that already.

I love college sports, but I have lost my interest in most professional sports. I still watch a little NFL and MLB, but not as much as I used to.

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I really don't care for the NBA. The only team I like to watch is the Suns because of their run and gun offense and Hall of Fame point guard Steve Nash. I'm a huge Duke fan though, so I devote all of my basketball time to either playing or watching NCAA.

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Used to be an avid fan of the NBA watched all the games but now never, pretty much stopped when Jordan left as I don't like Kobe and every player is decked out in tattoos, not my style. There is a lot missing, including a lot of fans if this thread is any indication. OH . . . and the Golden State Warriors, my team will never make the playoffs again, so what's to watch?

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I think the NBA is still fun to watch. But only the marquis teams PHX, LAL, CLE, DEN, and DAL. PHX for this reason

The only team I like to watch is the Suns because of their run and gun offense and Hall of Fame point guard Steve Nash.

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I miss that era myself-being from Boston I was spoiled watching Bird, McHale, Parrish and the group night after night-don't think we will ever see the league get back to that classic style of play again.

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I was reading the other day that NBA TV ratings have declined 40% in the last 10 years. Personally I think they have lost contact with their audience. I used to watch in the Jordan era but since have lost interest. Seems like everytime I turn it on all it is is a bunch of thugs that have taken over the league. IMHO gone are the days of Jordan, Magic, Kareem, Bird, and Sir Charles. Instead it is a league with no class full of players like Kobe, Sprewell, and Iverson.

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The NBA is a circus. its great to watch just to see what moronic actions are to come from the next player. to hear an nba superstar say he hates gay people is amazing (tim hardaway). we have an individual claiming to hate a whole group of people simply because of sexual preferance. amazing coming from a black person who i am sure has been judged and suppressed most of his life because of skin color. i got one word for everyone..."LOVE" how can we hate people we dont even know. its out of control. the fights (nuggets and knicks, pacers and pistons), the grabbing coaches by the neck and threatening to kill them (latrell sprewell to p.j. carlisimo), the shootings in clubs ( stephen jackson), the hate. PURELY DISGUSTING to pay these thugs so much money!

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I quit watching when Jordan, Bird and Magic all retired. The game today is a poor product as it's just one guy going one-on-one and the rest standing around. I would rather watch tennis...

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I quit watching when Jordan, Bird and Magic all retired. The game today is a poor product as it's just one guy going one-on-one and the rest standing around. I would rather watch tennis...

Basketball is by far my least favorite sport. I'd watch college football before I'd watch any sort of basketball. And seriously, women's college basketball? I'd rather be the meat in a Phil Mickelson/John Daly hug sandwich - naked - than watch women's college basketball.

I think the last game I watched, the score was 12-10 at halftime. And you wish I was kidding!

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Basketball is by far my least favorite sport. I'd watch college football before I'd watch any sort of basketball. And seriously, women's college basketball? I'd rather be the meat in a Phil Mickelson/John Daly hug sandwich - naked - than watch women's college basketball.

Naked meat in a Daly, Mickelson sandwich? LOL! i dont know if i'd go that far.

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Without Jordan, bird, stockton and malone, and of cousre the round mound of rebound its just a bunch of premadonnas

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I used to play High School ball back in the day, and I used to watch as much televised basketball as I could - Toughie being from Canada and all. This was about 6 years ago. These days I have outgrown the sport, and I try to watch as many tour events as I can Thursday to Sunday (who would have thought?).

But I still do think the NBA is great to watch (STEVE NASH VICTORIA WHAT! haha). And with NCAA's March Madness coming up soon, there will definately be some exciting games to watch.
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I think this time of year is especially hard for the NBA rating, with March Madness being huge, not many people want to watch a college game then turn on a NBA game, it's too much basketball.

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