{"id":3500,"date":"2021-08-05T19:54:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T19:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=3500"},"modified":"2021-08-05T19:54:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T19:54:11","slug":"the-problem-with-a-players-league-and-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2021\/08\/the-problem-with-a-players-league-and-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"The problem with a players&rsquo; league (and fans)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We get situations like Ben Simmons. Fans live through a pandemic buying $300 jerseys on credit cards and learning new skills to get money on new, ephemeral gigs. Sacrificing, still supporting their teams.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Ben is getting paid $35M\/year and doesn\u2019t want to improve on something that I feel like is quite important in basketball: shooting the ball. Of course fans are going to tear him another one.<\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t want to improve on it for <em>five damn years<\/em>. He still doesn\u2019t want to, apparently? I don\u2019t want to know.<\/p>\n<p>All I see if that a players\u2019 league creates a world where winning the genetic lottery allows you to be so complacent, you don\u2019t even care about improving on the top skill you need in the professional field that pays you handsomely.<\/p>\n<p>The balance and respect between players, fans and teams is in shambles in the NBA. It\u2019s mercenary city now. All of that to build ill-designed 10 bds, 14 baths MacMansions and own 4 jet skis. <\/p>\n<p>A mess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We get situations like Ben Simmons. Fans live through a pandemic buying $300 jerseys on credit cards and learning new skills to get money on new, ephemeral gigs. Sacrificing, still supporting their teams. Meanwhile Ben is getting paid $35M\/year and doesn\u2019t want to improve on something that I feel like is quite important in basketball: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3501,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500\/revisions\/3501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}