We are entering the era where kids are going to stop getting chances to hoop against pros because of this type of discourse
Man it is pick up basketball
I was told by kids on this app this is the toughest generation to play in the NBA 😂
Meanwhile we have a 15 year old high school kid COOKING NBA all star Trae Young and other guys in the league 🤔🤔🤔
Charles Lee on benching Naz Reid:
"Unfortunately, Naz didn't meet our standards in the first half, and at halftime we made the decision that he wouldn't play in the second half."
Hornets were up 7 at halftime and lost by 8.
I feel like hip-hop/rap is the only genre where we dismiss our legends calling them “washed up”. You’ll never see someone call Roger Waters who still preforming Pink Floyd hits washed. Or someone like Bruce Springsteen. It’s honestly sad.
I’ve been harping on it for a few years now. They did it to “improve” offensive numbers, but at the expense of the players. The amount of ground they have to cover at the speed they have to cover it is unsustainable.
I hate Eminem discourse on the internet because it’s a lot of revisionist history
Especially from J.Cole or Kendrick fans
That’s where a lot of their (and a lot of other rappers) got their influence from
Baron Davis tells Demarcus cousins to chill out after he says bam Adebayo needs to play like Bobby Portis to fit next to giannis antetokounmpo. Boogie says he sacrificed his game to play next to Anthony Davis
NBA went to 82 games in 1967-68.
Needless to say pretty much nothing in the world is the same as it was back then. Including the sport. But somehow there’s still 82 games, backs to backs. Things that were present 60 years ago
modern nba is a much different challenge physically