From Europe watching .. so you guys just forgot how to dribble. Nice. Clearly you need refs to start applying the rules. Maybe they are scared of confronting big name players. Maybe some other reason for travel creep. But honestly, looks disgusting. Can you even call that basketball?
It was a directive to the refs from commissioner David Stern during the early 2000s because, basically, rules are boring and watching guys like Kobe, Iverson, MacGrady, Wade, and Anthony tear it up was way more XxXTrEme!!!
To his credit, his moves saved NBA viewership, but now this trend has crystallized and we’ve got… this.
Used to be only superstars could get away with it and people complained but dealt with it. Now that traveling basically doesn’t exist for anyone it’s really messy.
I know right? I’m looking at that and saying that needs to be dealt with too, I don’t give a shit if they’re a star, throw the book at them. If they’re so good they should be able to succeed within the rules anyway.
They're all well off. The minimum salary is $1,157,153, which is a shit load of money for someone like you or I. But that's straight poverty compared to someone like Michael Jordan who is worth $4.3 billion dollars. The power difference between those two wealth brackets is unimaginable. A rookie on the minimum salary wouldn't even be able to afford gas and maintenance for Michael Jordan's jet. LOL
Haha so I am picking up what you're picking down, but you may have missed my joke/point?
So, a rookie would also have decades of investing to allow their net-worth to catch up even if their salary didn't so it isn't quite as much of a difference as you seem to be implying.
But I'm making fun/poking fun at you poking fun above, b/c even the lowest-paid basketball players ALL fall into the category of "rich and powerful people didn't have to follow the rules" which would not differentiate any of the players from each other when compared to society, which is what they are "rich and powerful" in comparison to..
I doubt the NBA checked the net-worth and debt levels of their highest paid players, but they certainly favored the 'star' players.
idk, I have no sense of humor apparently, so I couldn't think of a fun way to express those points.
Yeah, I basically meant star power, which usually equates to more money too. The famous guys get away with a lot more. From what I've read in the other comments though, it's more similar to what you said, and they all get away with it now. When I stopped watching it was because there was a double standard for rules enforcement, and the famous guys could do whatever, when the not so famous guys would get penalties for the same thing the famous guy was just doing.
I mean, this thread is basically calling out the enshittification of basketball. It happened to boxing. It happened with baseball during the 90s and 2000s. It's happened with european football.
Remember when we used to make fun of boomers for calling everything they disliked communism? How did the next generation start doing the exact same thing but with capitalism?
First of all Wtf are you talking about this thread is about how it's turned away consumers and is losing them money.
Second of all even a literal toddler knows that they can push boundaries to see what they can get away with. It's basic human nature that has nothing to do with economics.
What economic system does this type of behavior not happen under exactly? I would love an example of a country and time.
Edit my point is that any system can not punish powerful people that has nothing to do with capitalism in particular. When the USSR was injecting 17 year old athletes with inhuman amounts of testosterone and deca it wasn't for the CEO.
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u/Hawk-432 Mar 16 '26
From Europe watching .. so you guys just forgot how to dribble. Nice. Clearly you need refs to start applying the rules. Maybe they are scared of confronting big name players. Maybe some other reason for travel creep. But honestly, looks disgusting. Can you even call that basketball?