Summary of the past 24 hours...
Rockets official twitter page declares James Harden MVP:
NBA bans the term 'owner':
Rockets official twitter page declares James Harden MVP:
NBA bans the term 'owner':
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This isn't new. As Silver says in the article, the league internally moved away from the term years ago. The NBA continues to grow in revenue and popularity at a higher rate than any sports league in the country. I think they will be ok.
NBA revenues are up nearly 40% in the last two years. The global growth of the NBA could very easily see franchise values surpass NFL franchises in the next few years.
Yes, i'm sure they'll be fine.
I'm a big NBA fan and understand why the league is generating more fans. They've done a great job marketing their teams and players. Social media, trade talks, etc. have benefitted the NBA the most of any professional sport IMO, but some of these headlines are cringe-worthy and just seem like they're trying too hard... I just wonder how much of the dog-and-pony show people will put up with before they start to change the channel. In a game where someone wins and someone loses, the sensitive / politically-correct game gets a little tired.
Want to know who cares ask the nfls ratings.I don't see that being an issue. Anyone that stops watching basketball because they don't like the phrasing used by league executives probably wasn't much of a basketball fan to begin with.
Seriously, what kind of people are bothered by this? I can't fathom caring if the league wants to call owners something other than owners. The idea of spending even 5 seconds giving a shit about that is baffling to me.
What are some of the other cringe-worthy headlines?
Want to know who cares ask the nfls ratings.
No it was more of a take that if stuff get too political people will turn away. Personally who cares except the nba seems to back their players where the nfl doesn’t.Are you saying there are large numbers of NBA fans that feel so strongly about the term "owner" that they will boycott the league if it is no longer used?
No it was more of a take that if stuff get too political people will turn away. Personally who cares except the nba seems to back their players where the nfl doesn’t.
Yea it will probably blow over. People that y’all about owners will most likely keep calling them owners.Don't disagree there. I just don't think this owner thing is a whole lotta nothing.
I don't see that being an issue. Anyone that stops watching basketball because they don't like the phrasing used by league executives probably wasn't much of a basketball fan to begin with.
Seriously, what kind of people are bothered by this? I can't fathom caring if the league wants to call owners something other than owners. The idea of spending even 5 seconds giving a shit about that is baffling to me.
What are some of the other cringe-worthy headlines?
Yea it will probably blow over. People that y’all about owners will most likely keep calling them owners.
True won’t be mentioned past the weekend.I honestly don't think there is anything to blow over. I seriously doubt there are many normal people out there that care about this. I'm sure people like Clay Travis will use it to get some attention, but other than that it hasn't shown up on my radar at all.
If you watched the NBA Awards last night, you cringed. It was a 2-hour ad for the big NBA sponsors.
For starters…
- The players have all of the leverage over their teams and ‘governors’.
- Lebron has controlled where he plays, when he plays, who he plays with, and how he plays for years. Other stars are starting to follow his lead.
- When the season starts, there are about 4 or 5 teams with an actual shot of winning the championship. Extreme lack of parity.
- The players claiming ‘racism’ at the wrong time. (**Racism exists and is awful. When they claim racism in the wrong places, it dilutes the message in situations where severe racism does exist).
- The NBA botched the one-and-done situation years ago… it’s severely hurt the college basketball game IMO.
No it was more of a take that if stuff get too political people will turn away. Personally who cares except the nba seems to back their players where the nfl doesn’t.
Back their players? They make them rich and famous playing a GAME they grew up playing for free. You want to give me an 8 or 9 figure contract plus lucrative endorsement deals, you can call your self anything you want or tell me when to sit or stand
(or not to kneel) 2 minutes a day and I won't be able to wipe the grin off my face.
Players come and go. Always have and always will. Ownerships and fans are the constants. With out enough fans, everything else goes away. It would behoove the guys writing the checks to back the folks giving them the money to write em.
Pro athletes have largely become a bunch of overly pampered, entitled, spoiled, filthy rich elitists who have been convinced the world revolves around them, especially in the NBA. Most would sit and starve if they suddenly lost everything and had to get up needing to do actual work to eek out a living every day. Very very few wouldn't be totally clueless if they suddenly faced real life for a change.
No other time in human history have so many people become so wealthy and celebrated by being good at stuff that regular people do for fun, as athletes and musicians in the good old USA over the last century. You can throw actors in there too. These folks were incredibly fortunate to have been born when and where they were. You would think the least they could do is be respectful and appreciative of the country and the fans that made it possible.
Back their players? They make them rich and famous playing a GAME they grew up playing for free. You want to give me an 8 or 9 figure contract plus lucrative endorsement deals, you can call your self anything you want or tell me when to sit or stand
(or not to kneel) 2 minutes a day and I won't be able to wipe the grin off my face.
Players come and go. Always have and always will. Ownerships and fans are the constants. With out enough fans, everything else goes away. It would behoove the guys writing the checks to back the folks giving them the money to write em.
Pro athletes have largely become a bunch of overly pampered, entitled, spoiled, filthy rich elitists who have been convinced the world revolves around them, especially in the NBA. Most would sit and starve if they suddenly lost everything and had to get up needing to do actual work to eek out a living every day. Very very few wouldn't be totally clueless if they suddenly faced real life for a change.
No other time in human history have so many people become so wealthy and celebrated by being good at stuff that regular people do for fun, as athletes and musicians in the good old USA over the last century. You can throw actors in there too. These folks were incredibly fortunate to have been born when and where they were. You would think the least they could do is be respectful and appreciative of the country and the fans that made it possible.
Jesus
If you watched the NBA Awards last night, you cringed. It was a 2-hour ad for the big NBA sponsors.
For starters…
- The players have all of the leverage over their teams and ‘governors’.
- Lebron has controlled where he plays, when he plays, who he plays with, and how he plays for years. Other stars are starting to follow his lead.
- When the season starts, there are about 4 or 5 teams with an actual shot of winning the championship. Extreme lack of parity.
- The players claiming ‘racism’ at the wrong time. (**Racism exists and is awful. When they claim racism in the wrong places, it dilutes the message in situations where severe racism does exist).
- The NBA botched the one-and-done situation years ago… it’s severely hurt the college basketball game IMO.
I'd say most people have no issue with players having leverage over where they play. There is a lack of parity in nearly every sport from year to year. Not sure what you are referencing with the "claiming racism" part. The one and done issue goes both ways. None of these are really "cringe inducing headlines". They sound more like a few things you personally don't like about the NBA. Which is fine by the way. No sport is perfect.
Screw you and your PC BS. You can't refute a damn thing I said b/c it's true and you know it, so you try to come off as righteously indignant. And what does Jesus have to do with you or the NBA?
Didn’t say you had to like it but the nba for sure backs their players more so than the nfl.
Jesus x2
Man you are reading waaaayyyyy to far into what I said. I will say however wouldnt we normally commend a business for considering the input of its employees and making changes that can be a benefit to them, especially when they are at little to no cost to the company? No employee is forced to stay at any place of work but you still want to be treated what you would deem as fairly. Just because your opinion differs from theirs doesn’t mean they don’t deserve one.You act like the NBA is being heroic when in truth, they are just cowering to extreme political correctness to appease a bunch of spoiled celebs. Not a single player in any professional sport is required to play against their will if they don't want to. To pretend they are being mistreated b/c the guy that actually OWNS the place they work is called an OWNER would be hilarious if it weren't so incredibly shallow and stupid.
Brilliant take. Glad you were sharper for the MA debates.
No it was more of a take that if stuff get too political people will turn away. Personally who cares except the nba seems to back their players where the nfl doesn’t.
You watch a lot of NBA?