The NBA off-season has been nuts this year. In a bad way.
I don’t know what is worse: the amount of money players get or the contracts that mean nothing.
Sure, the league is powerful and teams have been ruthless with players too. Now that it’s the opposite, are we happier?
No. The core thing is that basketball is a team sport won with a bunch of individuals who stick together to win against all of the others, fastest, strongest and smartest teams. Teams win, not players. If you watch games, you know this. What does it even mean to follow a team now? One year you have a bunch of dudes and the next one you have an entirely different bunch of dudes. No legacy, no history, no meaning.
Watching NBA players acting like bitches because wE gETtinG pAiD when they’re all millionaires by default, while we’re all sweating to barely get a season pass or just a ticket, while the WNBA is traveling in coach, is absurd and disrespectful.
I hope the league does something or better, that players come back to the fucking ground.