Thursday, November 02, 2006

NBA, the opening night

Finally this individual sport dominated by hip-hop primadonnas known as the NBA is back.

Yes, there are a lot of things that could be improved in the NBA: from the obvious ones, like most of the "kids" still behave they are in the ghetto, they don't want to adjust to their new millionaire status, they obviously enjoy the money (plenty), the fame and their new place in society, but they still wanna behave like thugs... they go out at night to stripclubs (nothing wrong with this last thing, but they have also rules from their emplyer who pay them, or better, overpay them), but then they even end up fighting, being run over and shooting... right mr. Jackson?? WTF, is this a John Wayne movie or reality?? And, again him? Wasn't he involved in that ugly fight in Detroit? Will he ever learn?

Or the use and abuse of drugs (Portland as a team-building habit... although they started a clean-up campaign, already)... but widespread in the whole league...
The use and abuse of women (if I wanna eat tonight, I should say this is also wrong...)...
Arguing and fighting with fans (well, morons, not fans... the Palace brawl
, the big guy from Congo, Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean Jacques Wamutombo aka Mutombo being called a monkey: btw, that "fan" was banned for the whole season from each arena in the NBA)...
Skipping training, complaining about playing time, about the role played in the team...

Not getting along with each other (Spree and Carlesimo, Spree and Minny, Spree and Adecco, Kenyon and Karl, Ben and Saunders, Kobe and everyone else taking his spotlight, Ron Ron and the galaxy...)...
The refs influencing the games way too much, acc
ording to their mood... and all other sorts of childish behavor... Ron Ron being the leader in this, unfortunately... he will never learn neither...

There are also some less damaging issues, like the dress code to get away from this afro/hip hop culture that so much helped the NBA to become what it is now, but for dr. Stern, who used this for the league profit, now has enough and wants to reverse this trend back to white family businness-like, after all most of the rich and contri
buting are white rich families... in any case, it's a rule, and it hurts no one... someone said: " Let's see... These guys get paid tons of cash to go out and PLAY in something most people do for exercise and enjoyment. They are so mistreated by being told how to dress (no one has a dress code at their place of employment /sarcasm) and being told to act mature (again something no one is expected to do at WORK).
Anyone who wants to express their individuality by bucking against the rules, feel free to leave the NBA and take a job where you can feel free to talk trash to your co-workers and totally disrespect your customer base. Maybe if other sports would mandate some discipline we wouldn't have our kids looking up to thugs...".. AMEN brother...
... to the new ball, everyone hates it, probably dr. Ster
n does too, but to revoke it would mean admit the new ball is garbage (to put it in Zo's words) and eventually push Spalding into a near-bankrupcy...

But, despite all this, gosh I'm glad the NBA is back!

Now, leave all that non-sense behind and enjoy the next 6 months of action! Starting from opening night... already amazing stuff... the Miami Heat, after receiving their rings for the title won last June (can anyone tell me where they took the right to call themselves World Champs?),

were trashed at home by the young, up-and-coming Chicago Bulls... 108-66 the incredible result...I have to admit, the Bulls were fun to watch, and they have PLENTY talent available... if they can trade some of it for KG or Jermaine O' Neal, they could be nearly unbeatable... Day 2 in the season, the debut of lone-Italian and 2006 number 1 pick Andrea Bargnani, with the revised-uniform of the Toronto Raptors... not a grand opening for him, but I'm sure he will become a force sooner rather than later... 9 Min, 1-3 FGs, 0-1 3s, 0-0 FTs, 2 Rebs, 0 Ast, 0 Stl, 2 Blk, 1 TO, 3 PF, 2 PTS.... welcome to NBA, kido...

... needless to say, I watched both these games, a MUST!!

On a side note, it has to be remembered that Red Auerbach, mr. Boston Celtics, passed away at the age of 89... he won with the Celtics an NBA record 9 titles, a record tied in recent years by NBA's Zen master Phil Jackson... the Celts will dedicate their season to Red by sporting a black shamrock on their uniform with his name...

Asian influence: there are 82 international players in the NBA when the season starts, and if I'm not totally mistaken the only Asian representative is Houston Rocket's 2.26mt tall center Yao.

So everyone, buckle up, enjoy the ride and....

I LOVE THIS GAME !!!

1 Comments:

Blogger Steven said...

Whatever happened to Wang ZhiZhi and Ha-Seung Jin ?

Sunday, November 05, 2006  

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