AustonsNostrils
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God bless hockey and even Gary Bettman. What's going on in the NBA is just sad, entire season is pointless including the playoffs and Final.
God bless hockey and even Gary Bettman. What's going on in the NBA is just sad, entire season is pointless including the playoffs and Final.
Have you ever seen the look on LeBron's face when he gets called for a foul. It's like he thinking how dare you call something on me. While a star player in the NHL like Sidney Crosby might argue a penalty called on him, in the NBA it's a lot worse when a star player gets called for any type of foul.NBA is a huge joke. Prima donna league with no parity,NHL playoffs blow it out of the water.
LeBron gets a leg cramp and needs multiple teammates to help him off, meanwhile Joe Thornton is playing with a torn MCL and ACL in the same leg.
Having said that, it doesn't matter because they continue to be a bigger deal with bigger stars, better ratings, more successful, etc. I don't get it
NBA is a huge joke. Prima donna league with no parity,NHL playoffs blow it out of the water.
LeBron gets a leg cramp and needs multiple teammates to help him off, meanwhile Joe Thornton is playing with a torn MCL and ACL in the same leg.
I don't like basketball. But why hockey fans on HF can't seem to get over the fact that basketball is much more popular and mainstream and enjoyed by many more people than hockey is something I will never get. Basketball finals are like 4x as highly rated. Don't like? Don't watch.
Hockey fan inferiority complex in full swing once again when it comes to the NBA and Basketball in this thread. We've even got the usual suspects who pretend like hockey players are the only athletes that can deal with and play through serious injuries.
Now I haven't seen any of the Finals yet since I'm on vacation but the NBA, despite its lack of parity, offers a more exciting product than the NHL and it's not even remotely close. I'll take superstars and dominant teams rising to the top of the league over forced artificial parity any day of the week. Watching some of the best players and best assembled rosters in the history of the sport go at it is exciting to me as a sports fan and should entice any sports fan who likes to see the best in their disciplines competing against one another. LeBron, Steph, Kyrie, KD, Klay, Love, Thompson, Green etc. are incredible athletes and while the argument can be made that having the same teams likely to meet in the finals year after year over the course of 3+ years may be boring to some - you'll find just as many people who relish the rivalry.
The reason why the NHL is a fringe league and hockey is a fringe sport (outside of its marketing, demographic and product issues) is because the league artificially creates the illusion of competitiveness and as a result, the product is watered down and shallow. When you have officials carefully managing games and the best players in the sport being obstructed and disadvantaged, it doesn't make for exciting viewing. The product is boring and there's a reason why outside of a niche group of people, the sport is merely an afterthought in most parts of the States. If the NHL is serious about being looked at as a sports league that isn't a fringe novelty, it should be improving the product and allowing its star athletes to flourish.
It could be worse, the NBA could be pumping out as boring and luck driven of a product as the NHL has throughout the last decade
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