well, this reconfirms why I don't watch basketball.... at any level. The sport is annoying enough, but the players take the cake when it comes to "unsportsmanship"... Honestly, I have not watched ANY basketball (elementary kids up to NBA) in at least 10 years now. The only exception is the 2004 olympics in Athens. Then I watched, only to root for any team playing the US.... Hard for me to say, being a patriotic nationalist... but these overpaid, overhyped, tattooed, chest thumping "gang-bangaz" don't represent me!
If the NBA was played like the international style (more team/stratagy oriented), I would probably watch (only a little), but not the sh*te they pass off on us here!
"look at me, look at me... I'm the greatest, I'm so cool... by my $200 shoes, my rap album... The only way I could be any better would be if there were 2 of me on the court at the same time!..." that whole attitude is so prevolent in the NBA, and to a lesser degree in other professional sports in the US. THis is one of the things that has attracted me to both codes of rugby... More about honor, tradition, respect and team then about individuals and hype.
