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Why The NBA Lost Its Soul.

It's Not just 90s nostalgia...

Why The NBA Lost Its Soul.

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Most North American athletes, the NBA included, have designs on posing for GQ and appearing at NY Fashion Week.

SEPIA PRINCE

Bulls vs Pistons was the greatest sports rivalries ever. #BadBoys #JordanRule

Jordan

Penny Hardaway is one of my favorite players from the 90s that never won a ring. Thanks for the old memories Big Bro 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯🥹🥹🫡🫡🫡🫡😎😎 #CoverYour6

Jordan

We are the most self-divisive people on Earth. It’s sad The NBA fuckin SUCKS

Fabris

No hand check, no defense. I’m good bro, been watching different sports like rugby, female beach volleyball and streetbeefs.

The Specialist

It was the Luka doncic trade that did it for me, I just knew something nefarious was afoot because gms don’t trade their young superstars like that and it became pretty clear that the nba is losing money and lakers was a big market

Piccolo from namek

The 90s NBA games was lit!Bulls,Knicks,Pacers.Sonics,SunsBlazers,Even the bad teams competed like when the 8th seeded Nuggets beat the Sonics.My team was the Sonics Shawn Kemp was unbelievable!

DeMario L

I stopped watching after Dirk and the Mavs stopped the Heats Dynasty. What really killed it for me was when they stopped calling charging fouls everytime Lebron drove in the paint. Thats how I knew the NBA was going downhill.

RageintheMachine

word lmao

The Thinking Mans Templar

In the UK if a soccer player is touched by his opponent, he falls on the ground screaming holding his face even though he was tapped on the shoulder, these are guys who earn thousands a week and have the best training and equipment in their house!!! Let alone in the training camp, it's definitely a generation thing.

Akhenaton East

The same can be said of Soccer, in the UK you have only 2 teams that win the season trophy, and if it's not one it's the other, year after year out of 18 team's 2 compet for the top stop, it's like it's fixed. When watching Seira A (Italian Soccer) you see the eb and flow of team's in controlling positions, but in the UK with big cooperations like Bracklays bank taking over the competitive edge has gone.

Akhenaton East

I’m only 24 and I don’t even watch anymore. No I didn’t see Jordan but I remember early Bron, Kobe, young Chris Paul, the hot Spurs, Mavs, Celtics. This new era is trash compared to that. I stopped watching a few years ago.

John

I appreciate you talking about these leagues in high school and kids avoiding high school basketball and what not. I actually work with a D1 and we got a kid from one of those academies. Very talented and had a great year at the school he was at before. But transferred here and now is in a system where you have to know how to play within in the system but at the same time be able to create for yourself. He has trouble with the knowing of how to play instead of score score score. Also I think its trickled down to college athletics, the NIL, the transfer portal being able to leave every year to go somewhere else in case its not working out, players getting overpaid and then going overseas and getting 4x less than what they got in college. Interesting Landscape.

Ray

I haven't watched the NBA since Barkley was on the Phoenix Suns back in the 90s lol

freeronin

The NBA Allstar weekend destroys a piece of me each year.

Adrian

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Scrap Woke

Facts 🫡💯🫵🏾

PointWithin

I can’t even stomach espn anymore. They just gossip and go on about drama and narratives. Plus, this is just me, but hearing some of these women speak just doesn’t do it for me.

PointWithin

ESPN is a complete joke. I miss the Sportscenter nonstop morning repeats. Back then that was the only way I seen Supersonic highlights. It may sound crazy but I miss the old ESPN that had strongman contests, NASCAR racing, bass fishing and bowling tournaments.

Palimovel

My man TMT! I appreciate the Miami heat clips! this video was loaded with them! But none of the NBA in 2025 is must see TV. The all star, dunk contest etc....none of it! I use to watch multiple games. When the Heat got done playing- I'd stay up to atleast watch the lakers or supersonics. Different teams had diff styles-now everybody camped out behind the 3. Use to know entire rosters.. Crazy how players force the way out- even during mid season! When Jimmy left im like damn, can you wait till the season over? and guys just wanted to play BALL. You can go to an NBA game spend 3-500 Dollars and you might not even see the actually starters play. They wont tell you so and so is not playing tonight before you buy the ticket! I miss that NBA feel..the hairs standing up on the back of yo neck- like whats gonna happen! I remember the Heat-Knicks rivalry. down here in Miami- everyone hated the New York kids! I still hate the knicks lol but I know some good people from NY. Football is the same way. I just mostly watch college football. Boxing...even UFC peaked between 06-10...maybe 14...but after that seems like everything fell off. Sports, Music, Clothes (nobody sells jeans, everything is skinny or slim fit) hell food fell off...notice how nothing back in the day was called organic...but was as real as it gets... we never disrespected our elders with anything. Now the new flex is to just shit on anything that happened before you were born. /rant over

BOSS_DON_DADA

Peace and blessings I hate sports I can't even name a starting 5 on a basketball NBA team.

Scrap Woke

I never liked the term old head.

AW

I stopped taking the NBA serious after the San Antonio spurs broke up!. Many considered San Antonio boring! But they were the last of a Dying breed of good fundamental team basketball 💯

Skant dolla

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HACK HER

YOO BRO SHALAWAM... YOU RIGHT BRO... I'M 47 WE FROM THAT ERA NA MEAN... THIS NEW NBA ISN'T ENTERTAINING...KOBE WAS THE LAST OF THAT ERA OF GRIT...GULLY... DEFENSE AND OFFENSIVE BASKETBALL... TO BE HONEST I DON'T EVEN THINK WHEN STEPH...KD AND LEBRON RETIRE IS GONNA CHANGE...I COULD BE WRONG THOUGH

Adamant Stone BALTIMORE 3

Big Facts!! I watch more college basketball than NBA.

Nate478

They allow way too much carrying and traveling. It's denigrates the product. LeBron needs to go as well.

Fud

The 90s NBA warmups were and remain classic.

Bīsmīllāh

facts...social media too.. we see too much of them..lot of these players be lame af

The Thinking Mans Templar

Facts

Rah-Saan Naga

A lot of things music, fashion the whole vibe of the 90s and early 2000s even a portion of the 2010s shit was lit 🔥🔥🔥. Now it’s weird energy out here.

Dynamitekidd


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