Have I talked about the NBA In-Season Tournament yet? Maybe not in these typed words, but I have talked about it with some people, and mentioned what a sham I think it is. Look, any reason to go to Las Vegas is OK in my book, but to consider this in-season tourney a serious thing? OK…
The money is serious for the players; 500K per player on the winning team! That’s nothing to sneeze at. I still chuckle though. Getting paid all those millions to play a game and you STILL need extra motivation to play hard? This is the whole reason behind this tourney, well, one of the biggest reasons at least. It’s because guys didn’t give a shit half the time during the 82 game season… taking games off, load management, not playing hard, etc, etc… So let’s make up some shit to get these guys to be more competitive before the real playoffs begin. Mission accomplished… I guess? It’s cool and all, but let’s not make it more than it is… and let’s not forget why the NBA had to come up with this, to try to motivate guys, a good percentage millionaires, to play hard… that’s pretty sad actually.
Secondly, I’m convinced Klutch and Lebron are behind this thing too. What can we put in place that LeBron can add to his accolades to boost his GOAT case… talk about THE sham. Yeah, let’s do an in season tourney, give the Lakers an easy path to the Finals, call more fouls on the opponent regularly, and light a fire under AD’s ass. Yes, the Lakers will win the 1st ever in-season tourney, and oh yeah, it doesn’t matter what anybody else did on his team, LeBron WILL get the MVP. Again, mission accomplished? And now, they’re raising a banner for this?!?! Holy shit… the Lakers out of all teams… with all their NBA titles. I’m reading this stuff, thinking I’m being pranked… are people serious? “LeBron won his 5th ring”… I can’t even…wow. Yeah, they ruin it pushing their agenda; guess we have to get used to that shit huh?
Back to the rest of the NBA season, which oh yeah, has still more than halfway to go. Let the load management begin! But remember, the NBA had to put in rules to discourage this, prevent teams from resting multiple players; imagine that! And people think this is OK… I guess I really am becoming old; I just don’t see it. But today’s NBA is better than ever, right? Hey, the dudes are athletic; they can shoot from far distances. I will give them that. But guys were athletic back in the day too, with a lot less personal attention to training and injury prevention. And yeah, why did guys have to shoot from 100 feet away when they can drive it to the hole and make a bucket… Things have definitely changed, but you know where I stand. Give me a team of all stars from back in the day and I’d take them all day every day over this new breed. OK, I’m stepping down off my soap box now. You know what’s NOT a sham? The way the Bulls have been playing minus Lavine… more on that to come.
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