What NBA event in recent memory hasn’t resulted in negative discourse?

It feels like the last 5 at least lol. When Embiid, Luka, Dame and DMitch got their 70+ pt games, people were freaking out that the league was cooked. They need to stop being miserable losers.

Sometimes I truly wonder whether NBA fans actually like watching basketball.

Luka fell in the mvp race after dropping 70+ lol.

Those resulted in negative talk about the nba, but the performances themselves were celebrated.

The wizards just legitimately suck bro. They’ve been that way for years now.

Everyone has their own agenda. Those who didn’t like Kobe are getting their shit off. Kobe/laker fans are getting their shit off. Fans of the old era are getting their shit off

Nobody cares to clown on the wizards cause they aren’t a priority when spreading propaganda about this game lol. Everybody knows they suck anyway and they have been a punching bag of an organization for a while(they were respectable in the 2010s during the John wall/Bradley Beal era)so nobody cares to hold a deep conversation about that franchise at the moment. Only what this means for Kobe’s(or the “dead rapist” as they have been calling him for the last 15 hours) legacy

It’s Stan culture taking place rn. I even seen Jayson Tatum catching strays over this and remember the Celtics played that night as well. Talking about how bad the wizards are is the least of most of these people’s concerns outside of a joke or two.

Im guilty in this as well so I know lol.

I love all the people, including the Wizards coach, talking about how it’s not real basketball and unethical and breaking the bro code and whatever

Can’t be talking like that when a professional sports team in the best league in the world is intentionally trying to lose games

Knicks fan saying this is always funny. Wizards have won a championship more recently than the biggest market in the NBA.

How are the Wizards the embodiment of the tank? They hadn’t talked for 3 decades before trading Beal. You’re just upset you’re not getting that pick. 

As a wizards fan, I couldn’t care less. We’re putting out full tank lineups.

When Kobe scored 62 in 3 quarters against Dallas and sat out the fourth, people were complaining that he didn’t play the whole game and see how many points he could have racked up. Then when he dropped 81, people were complaining he was stat padding. People just complain.

It’s actually so dope that the head freaking coach was like “I love bam and there was no way I was taking him out.” We, as fans, used to beg teams to leave guys in and go for more points! Now there are people legit crying about how it affects other players legacies? It’s pathetic man.

Right? People act like he robbed an opponent of a chip or some shit. It’s just points in a regular season game. Lighten up

MFers really wanna talk about ethics when the league is trying their damnedest to sweep Aspiration under the rug. Gimme a break

that’s such a lovely way of putting it

Drew Gooden (not the former NBA player) did a good video recently about the downfall of ESPN and sports discourse in general. I recommend watching it if you want to get an idea of how ESPN went from actual journalism to ²⁴⁄₇ rage bait and Stephen A. Smith.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFGzXNILrV4

Such a shame that most nba conversations turn into this. From online and talking heads. You don’t see dudes in baseball or nfl getting clowned like this

Wemby shrugging it off and saying he’s uninterested (and the whole thread glazing him for it) pretty much set forth what the future attitude of basketball will be

Gen Z nonchalance

However you get 83 is fine too. If it was easy we’d see scores this high often, and Kobe’s 81 was over 20 years ago

We really going to pretend having your teammates foul on every defensive possession so you can get the ball back is “hella tuff”?

for what? i missed it

I’m actually fine with that

The intentional missed free throws by Miami players just to get Bam the ball quicker were peak cringe.

Any player, any era shouldn’t shoot 40 fts in a game.

Happy for him but actually watching him actually get up to 83 shooting free throws over and over was just boring.

No don’t you see. If you don’t celebrate it you’re everything that’s wrong with basketball discourse!!

/S

I don’t get half those threads and comments. It was dogshit basketball. The whistle was insanely one-sided when it came to contact offball and drives. The wizards couldn’t do shit and were being kept at arms length by the officials from ever getting back into the game.

If in the 3rd and 4th the Wizards got calls on drives like Bam was getting, the close the lead and Spo doesn’t let Bam chuck the way he did. This whole “accomplishment” was forced since the half break and it was not basketball at all.

The end of the 4th quarter was one of the most disgraceful things I’ve witnessed to the integrity of the NBA in a game in a long, long time

We have eyewitness accounts of that game and yes, it was a mockery by the end as well.

Just goes to show how stupid caring about this particular record is.

The dude who was responsible for defending Wilt that night for 20 minutes (before fouling out) called the game “a farce”. One of Wilt’s teammates (a rookie then) was interviewed by Pablo Torre and the teammate’s response was essentially that the guy was big mad but that the team did indeed do everything they could to get a teammate 100 points, and he was proud of it lol.

Honestly anybody who wants to blame the team stat padding also needs to blame the team being scored on. Once you start literally trying to run out the clock as the losing team (which the Knicks were doing vs Wilt and the Wizards tried to do vs Bam) then all bets are off. You’ve turned it into a circus cause the losing team has abandoned playing in the spirit of the game and is just trying to spite a guy having a good night. So damn right his team is going to spite right back by feeding him and intentionally fouling so that you can’t fuck over their friend.

thank you

The day where I agree with a Rockets fan should be a dark one, but you’re shining the light on the truth

It’s a blowout win late in the season starring a tanking team and a play-in squad.

If he’s on a heater, fuck it, let’s force feed and go for it. It’s not like the wizards helped with that 43FT argument, they were picking him up full court with 3 players and hacking the shit out of him.

This is the type of shit that bothers people that are chronically online

“YOU MUST APPRECIATE THIS EXACTLY LIKE I DO” lol

he scored 31 in the first quarter. he WAS on fire.

i think he was ⁷⁄₁₇ (41%, and for Bam, that’s on fire bro) from three before chucking up a bunch of threes

Bro did not watch the game

Same. OP is part of the problem. I watched it and I enjoyed the game, it was fantastic entertainment.

Hmmm.. Then you would not be paying attention to the Mainstream sports media which is a good thing for everyone to do nowadays but many people still do pay attention. Good for you is all gotta say. 

This doesn’t hold water during periods of play that the opponent is literally trying to foul though

It’s so bad. Even role players somehow got stans on our sub

There’s nothing wrong with liking and following players like LeBron, Kobe, Curry, etc., but some people start living vicariously through them, and every minor insult toward that player becomes an insult to them personally.

What did Stan Van Gundy do to get so much love?

That’s what I’m saying mfs clowned on Westbrook, Harden and others for stat padding for years, but all of a sudden, it’s “let bam have fun”, “ 83 is 83”, “it doesn’t matter how you get it”. I get that it’s fun because it was a guy whose previous career high was 41 but let’s stay consistent. This shit is not a good look for the league.

Facts. You would think the way they’ve been bitching about Shai and Luka, and hyping up “Ethical Wemby” that this sub would’ve called out the absurdity that is 43 FTA in a game. Who tf wants to watch that shit?

Most of the complainers did not watch the game. They are complaining based on what they believe happened in a game they did not watch. It’s pathetic and disingenuous.

I can’t tell if you’re serious or not. Watching him take all the free throws in the 3Q was ridiculous in a bad way and keeping him in during a blowout to chase a record was eyebrow raising. Challenging the offensive charge in the 4th was bad too, fouling the wizards to get the ball back was also bad

This might be an example of where watching the game might have led to an even worse response. I don’t blame the heat, wizards or bam any bit for playing out the 4th how they did. The wizards are incentivized to lose, the heat wanted bam to break Kobe’s mark once it was realistic. It’s an impressive game from bam, but probably something that the folks who aren’t don’t like the NBA/like to hate on it would have a conniption watching

The irony of saying this and acting like the last 6 mins of that game was real basketball 😂

I watched the game. Bam was unstoppable, they were triple teaming him but still couldn’t stop him without fouling. But I acknowledge that this is one of those games that will go down as more of a Scott Skiles 30 assist game rather than Kobe’s 81 point game in NBA history. Aesthetics and star power matter.