The NBA is Crumbling...

[@gouldingsteve]

"Fans really feel like they can skip the regular season" Yeah, the players do, too.

[@AEJones-dl9nn]

Yeah, this dude talked about everything except the real problems. These preachy prima donnas aren’t people i want to cheer for. They chuck contested 3’s the whole time and whinge constantly. This guy has a go at jokic? Must work for espn.

[@John6-40]

​@AEJones-dl9nn I clicked pause when he said "players now are definitely more athletic", and I have no intention to watch the rest if he starts off that goofy.

[@iiJaRhonNaDeS]

@@John6-40They are more athletic. But they aren’t nearly as tough. Not even close.

[@larry2281]

@@AEJones-dl9nn I mean he definitely talked about some of the key issues but I agree. Players don't want to play and the way the game is played nowadays its just not fun to watch. Shooting 50 3's a night and missing half of them is boring. No defense is boring.

[@Zemlja_je_ravna]

If they start broadcasting Jokic games every night, views would probably skyrocket 150%

[@Thenameisboosta]

It’s simple why NBA viewing numbers are down… here it is…No Defense, No Mid Range Shots, Too Much Lebron and his excuses 😂

[@lauramalik5156]

Yep, and also JJ Redick and practically everyone drafted after 2003 kissing Lebron's ass. I'd much rather watch an NBA game with Iverson, Kobe, Dirk, KG, or Paul Pierce in it, because I know the game would have emotion and non of that prima donna bullshit that Lebron brought with him to the league.

[@vayduong6806]

Sometimes I wonder who are behind these lebron’s story. We hated it . I said nba is a clown league😂

[@invisibleloveone]

Also, no traveling.

[@JoeMKay]

your argument would make sense if lebron wasn't filling out arenas wherever he played

[@Thenameisboosta]

@ You’re talking about showing up to the games… We’re talking about watching that sh*t on T.V. at the house… 2 different conversations son!

[@Dixon_Cider407]

Just look at the fact that Paolo Banchero was the number 1 draft pick and made the Magic into a playoff team yet he's had ONE televised game in his career and that was only because Shaq was being honored

[@MrLightning20]

I didn’t know who Banchero was until the playoffs when they started putting him on TV. They don’t promote their young stars.

[@Gothiccbadboy666]

They only think about the money they can make now that why they going to milk this season and probably the next one it’s going to be all about lebron last dance 🕺

[@andrebarker4072]

The game isnt physical, players switch teams every year, theres no rivalries, no defense, they chuck up threes, they cry and load manage, players making 50 million dollars a year, super teams, the game used to be watched on tv, now you have to pay for streaming. People prefer not too. Sad I used to love the game now i.prefer to watch college players or wnba!!!😢

[@chrisuncleahmad666]

I stopped caring about the NBA for a long time for the opposite reasons: nobody ever shot threes, terrible offense disguised as allegedly good defense, and being physical took precedent over actual basketball ability

[@bdcrazy4019]

they also carry and walk on every possession.

[@nyy776]

Facts!🏀

[@GREYGH0ST_v2]

@@chrisuncleahmad666we all can tell you started watching nba in 2016. Garbage a$$ take

[@t-god2439]

Also they carry so much and calm it handle. Lamelo is my favorite player in the league today. But I’m not sure how good he could dribble if he wasent carrying the ball all the time

[@Joseph-tc8nk]

The league's obsession with only marketing "big-market" teams has killed it. The NFL doesn't sabotage the Packers just for being in Green Bay

[@silversoulken]

Exactly. Patrick Mahomes brought a midwestern team out of a 20+ year grave.

[@benn746]

Best team is in KC, a city the NFL holds up as one of it's core legacy spots.

[@chrisuncleahmad666]

The Packers sabotage themselves in January

[@alexlilano1931]

The refs have way too much power in the NBA. They have more power of the outcome than players. A lot of the games are fixed especially the Sacramento Kings games. They did an investigation and they found out they were fixing games. A ref went to prison for it. As a Kings fan, I stopped watching. If the Kings are any good, the NBA make sure they wont win in the playoff. What is the point of watching?

[@gb6710]

@@chrisuncleahmad666I hate you for being right.

[@chillDude_chills]

stop calling bullshit flop fouls, and start calling blatant traveling, double dribbles and palmings. nobodies watching the nba cause of this horse shit

[@leeswift7883]

Someone's username is ironic

[@chillDude_chills]

@@leeswift7883 thats how you know its serious.

[@erics9754]

They say the players are better today i call bullshit they do not even know how to play anymore in the 60s 70s and 80s they played by the rules and the rules were called. Also people want to see a mix of white and black players just not all black players everyone needs players they can identify with before someone cry's racism lol. The Celtics were the most successful team in history and even in the 80s half the team was white so do not give me that bullshit about white guys being not as good the white guys on the Celtics were some of their best players lol.

[@mysticlegion8088]

​@@chillDude_chillsThis is facts man. Then they have the nerve to call blatant traveling "gather step". Wtf? The flops are getting old and they carry the ball all game. Every year the game requires less and less skill for the 101 mechanics like simple dribbling and lay ups. A player can literally carry the ball 2 and half steps before the ball even touches the floor. It's atrocious.

[@giobarker788]

Truth. I'm a Laker fan, and the most blatant traveling is done by Anthony "High dribble" Davis and LeBron "no pronounced lead foot" James. I see the traveling, carrying, and shuffling of the lead foot every game, barr none. Plus it's very hard to watch LeBron at this point because he's gonna argue EVERY call so he doesn't have to run back on defense. Hard to watch.

[@ndrocca]

I firmly believe the NBA and NBA media has done this to themselves. Brushing off the regular season, not marketing new stars, making games a pain to sit through (especially all star weekend), EVERYTHING is on the NBA (including the players) and NBA media.

[@user-dn3fn3bg4l]

It's really simple. It's Adam Silver's fault. Done.

[@chrisuncleahmad666]

20 years ago games were a chore to watch when the scores were 83-79. Sure they didn’t brush off the regular season but it made the regular season so freaking boring

[@OJTheBLAK]

How is it on the players?

[@icansellcorn2aindian]

What do you mean making games a chore to sit through?

[@shawklan27]

​@@user-dn3fn3bg4l pretty much

[@Oldthanos]

You made this whole video on why the NBA is crumbling and didn’t even bring up how now every team just wants to shoot a 3 on every possession. “C’mon man”

[@Milt-g4f]

That's because back in the day everyone wanted to dunk or make a highlight because they couldn't shoot the long ball

[@Oldthanos]

@ nah I just don’t think they had the advance analytics back then as they do now.

[@Absolute8384]

@@Milt-g4fThis is such a low IQ comment, it’s actually insane.

[@insanusmaximus2857]

@@Milt-g4f Dunks ended up on posters. Sold billions of dollars in shoes. Made NBA players the most recognizable athletes in the world. Made the All-Star game a must-see showcase.

[@alexlilano1931]

It is a glorified 3 point contest. Whoever team makes the most threes that game wins the game.

[@LeftCross_]

The players don’t care about the season or the league so neither should the fans. I didn’t leave the NBA, the NBA left me.

[@chrisuncleahmad666]

I left the NBA and almost never came back

[@alexlilano1931]

Draymond Green said 85% of the players dont even like basketball. I think it is contagious. Even the vast majority of players dont like basketball. Why would the fans?

[@John6-40]

Exactly. I swear it almost feels like there is a coordinated effort to make entertainment less entertaining and more frustrating. It feels that way in every sport, movies and music as well. I want to love the NBA. I can't. The games are sloppy half hearted 3pt contests and high pick and roll. Unlikeable personalities. Load management. Rules that make offense too easy. Biased politics shoehorned in. Then I get zoomers and talking heads gaslighting me by saying the players are better and the game is better. No. No it's not.

[@LeftCross_]

@@John6-40 our culture was flash frozen in the early 00s. That’s why everything feels stale. Nobody takes risks when making things, its just all just rehashed slop.

[@scarletspider1240]

@@LeftCross_ain’t that the frickin truth!

[@Hellcat71782]

Shooting 55+ 3’s a game, zero and I mean zero defense is boring. The nba is corny now

[@pipjersey8303]

this is one of the main reasons i lost interest years ago, plus the fact players realized how to cheese the rule system like never before in nba

[@patrickoakley7890]

Yup. Every game is a three point contest.

[@Gurenn83]

This was already the case since the 2016 Warriors. Curry chucking 3’s then falls and fumbles. Got tired of it.

[@airmorris6538]

❤

[@airmorris6538]

Straight up garbage! Right from the tip off right to the three point line shooting 3s like its 5 seconds left in the game lol

[@Komo47]

They fucked up by not marketing the young players years ago. They stayed on the LeBron curry hype train for too long.

[@chrisuncleahmad666]

They did the same thing in the 2000s. It was the Kobe and Duncan hype train for too damn long

[@gregpenismith1248]

Keep crying. If there was better talent that could draw better marketing, the league would do it.

[@acelm8437]

Their most iconic battle was EIGHT YEARS ago now. That's way too long not to have any new/exciting coverage.

[@DayvonCurrie-p9g]

Cause they still the best in The NBA even KD

[@Milt-g4f]

​@@chrisuncleahmad666you are absolutely correct

[@danielplainview2360]

I'll simplify it for you. The reason why the NBA is & has been declining is because the players are making too much money. When you give someone *guaranteed* 30 to 70 million a year, I don't care who you are, you are going to start relaxing. The motivation isn't there anymore.

[@GREYGH0ST_v2]

🎯🎯🎯🎯

[@DeadAir21]

So instead of paying the players that make the league you’d rather that money go into the owners pockets? Because the money being made is not going away and I’d rather the players get paid rather than an already rich billionaire owner.

[@zacharywallis2057]

@@DeadAir21 no the league is over priced as a whole all of them should be making less from owners to coaches to players. stadium staff and support staff should be paid way better.

[@DeadAir21]

@@zacharywallis2057 seeing that most teams are playing in packed arenas id beg to differ. Teams like the Pistons, Magic, Blazers, Jazz and Spurs were awful last season yet still averaged over 18,000 fans a game. That is at or near building capacity. People are willing to pay to go watch NBA games.

[@thegodfather768]

The motivation is to win a championship isn't?

[@rickybobbysdriver555]

As a former fan who became a casual, it's easy to see the issues the league has. The same teams on prime time games. A sense of entitlement. Players dictating the terms of when they'll play or load management. Which was done years ago by the spurs, but as a spurs fan, it was done to preserve their older players for the playoffs. Not a 25 year old. As I am no longer a fan it doesn't bother me as much as I've moved on from the sport, but I do enjoy videos about the NBA, usually when they cover the 80's or 90's.

[@benn746]

The Spurs even lost Kawhi because they DIDN'T want to comply with his load management.

[@alexlilano1931]

The crazy thing it isnt even physical. It is so unbelievable soft today and all they doing is running to the other side of court and jacking up threes. Clearly they just doing it because basketball is boring to them too.

[@047Kenny]

NFL and college basketball better.

[@cfl4286]

@@alexlilano1931 this is facts. After watching an NFL game and then viewing basketball highlights (I don’t watch games anymore) it baffles me how nba players can actually complain. There’s so little contact compared to previous generations, and all every team does is shoot 3s.

[@surferxblood]

It’s rigged, soft and half assed. No one takes the game serious now. This generation literally talks down on their elders that played the game and got the game to where it is today. It’s a mess & doomed.

[@SRB_SYNDICATE]

lol

[@bball3048mmfr]

"wE d0nE w!th tHe 90z"

[@2024ty]

They 100% turn on the magnetic rims every game along with the rest of the rigged shit they do because of gamblers

[@PrickFlair]

@@bball3048mmfrlol when the 90’s players actually had pride and wanted to play for the fans. Todays players wanna get paid more for doing less. It’s a joke.

[@ColeAdams]

David Stern would be appalled at what Silver has done to the league

[@justtimes9257]

agreed one the great commissioner in sports history

[@chrisuncleahmad666]

David Stern was overrated. He rode the coattails of Bird/Magic/Jordan, presided over an era that cared more about fighting than winning, and the product was a joke

[@chrisuncleahmad666]

@@justtimes9257The NBA thrived IN SPITE of Stern not because of him

[@Milt-g4f]

This is the league David Stern envisioned. You guys know nothing

[@jonathangonzales4115]

Yes, he envisioned the ratings to plummet

[@pindajung]

ESPN has a lot to do with it too. Firing Zach Lowe whilst employing clowns like Kendrick Perkins and Malika Andrews who scream 'racism' at every opportunity is a really big turn off.

[@jaybrown8171]

Shut up whiteboy

[@tyrismaxey]

Is that what you are focused on? You really aren't a fan of the league then.

[@MrMikeJagger]

Truer words have never been said. Fans are tired of the entitlement and the moral superiority of the league there’s no fire or intensity or just playing the game everything has to be political. Or you got players bitching and complaining about not getting their multi-million dollar bonuses if they don’t show up to 65 games out of an 82 game season

[@LoneWolf22_]

well media is fake. IF you still watch sportscenter, first take, espn whatever. you're slow. Malika perkins, stephen a , EVERYONE of them are puppets and say what they're TOLD.

[@pindajung]

@@tyrismaxey Not primarily, the video and other commenters have listed those other reasons. However, as fans we follow the league through the media. ESPN covers the league and they are annoying as hell. I'm not spending my free time willingly letting myself get annoyed.

[@jaypsnotes]

I seriously think they underestimate how important Inside the NBA is to the NBA's viewership. The games on TNT are always the most watched and its because of Inside the NBA's hilarious and just generally highly entertaining presentation

[@alexlilano1931]

@@jaypsnotes The NBA doesnt care and rather have a bigger paycheck. TNT cant match NBC or Amazon big offer. Charles Barkley said the thing which makes him the saddest is a lot of his friends who worked for Inside of NBA are now jobless. Charles Barkley is the most honest man I have ever seen. Even with huge lash back, he is honest. He meant it 100%. Although people hate on Adam Sliver, he made the NBA a lot of money, but he seems to be money first type of business man.

[@zacharywallis2057]

That was the last straw for me used to be a die hard. id watch 70+ games for my team a season and go to a few. to turn their back on chuck kenny shaq and ernie they can eat it.

[@ghtraining1]

I record inside the nba to see what they say and watch highlights but don't have the care to watch a 2 and half hour 3 point contest

[@chopmoon]

Let's see: 1. Over emphasis on 3 point game 2. Load management 3. Super teams failing miserably. If you can't beat them, join them. 4. Too many overhyped stars 5. Ridiculous refereeing calls. Imagine getting a T for celebrating a basket. 6. Flopping 7. Lackluster ASG 8. Too much player empowerment. There was a time when GMs decide who to recruit/ fire, not the players. 9. Ridiculous contracts for underwhelming performance 10. Adam Silver

[@brianchua4240]

During my childhood, the NBA was a sport that I was addicted to watching. Like it was my top sport to watch out of all the American sports. Now, it's taken a drastic drop. MLB, NFL, NHL are better to watch. Their playoffs are also more entertaining than the NBA's.

[@chrisuncleahmad666]

The NHL is unwatchable and its playoffs are even worse

[@waifubreaks1572]

@@chrisuncleahmad666 playoff hockey is chaotic and awesome

[@chrisuncleahmad666]

@@waifubreaks1572 Playoff hockey sucks. It caters to the less talented

[@brianchua4240]

@@chrisuncleahmad666 The NBA playoffs last year were boredoms dude. Playoff hockey last year is legit because it's not predictable in the slightest.

[@liguy181]

@@chrisuncleahmad666 I mean, if you're used to watching teams score 40+ times a game and a couple players carrying an entire team and you don't care for defense, I can see how the NHL is unwatchable. And if you don't like unpredictability and tough, physical players playing the fastest paced game around with the highest stakes for the best trophy in sports, I can see how you think the playoffs are even worse.

[@dennisdezarn5895]

No one is romanticizing Jordan's Prime, dude. The entire world objectively agreed that we were witnessing something very special. But you weren't there so it didn't happen.

[@shermre5184]

That's another issue as well...the lack of respect for the past and the eagerness for the league and media outlets to downplay the history in order to prop up today's game....its plain as day that younger fans were not able to see past eras but to tear down those eras is a disservice to the game and greats that paved the way

[@Dyler]

That's the nuance that Gen Z and Gen Alpha doesn't understand. We all realized Jordon was on a Babe Ruth/Mike Tyson-esque run. Even if you didn't like the Bulls, we all were captivated by the artistry he was capable of producing on the court. It wasn't just about dominance, it was art through the lens of sport.

[@kingjruck6507]

Facts 💯. LeBron and the lemedia and the superteam era.mess the NBA up.

[@jpmnky]

Exactly

[@Kr4v3rd]

​@shermre5184 the league thinks we're stupid. "Oh look at lebron breaking records." They think that we don't understand context and see how good the rules are to the offense and how unfair it is to the defense. Players are more athletic but they don't fundamentally seem to understand how to play because they can carry the ball and travel now.

[@chrisuncleahmad666]

“That one day in 2019 where DJ Augustine hit a game winning shot in the playoffs”

[@sendAJtospace]

All shall fear Game 1 Magic

[@chrisuncleahmad666]

@@sendAJtospace Right up there with the TNT Bulls

[@joserb-zs1vd]

OH NO VALENTINE THAT IS NOT THE SHOT

[@JawaPenguin16]

@@chrisuncleahmad666 DJ Augustine is just happy to even have anyone remember that unimportant playoff series

[@jamesraisch1876]

Whos dj augustine i have heard of Dj Augustin by not dj augustine

[@mattparsons6813]

I think the biggest problem is that the players care so little about their own league they have to make rules to get them to play every day. They have to make rules to stop half the team from tanking and more rules to make sure 2/3 of the league makes the playoffs. And somehow my Pistons still haven't been a relevant team for 15 years. They'll have to make more rules to try and get players to care about the all star game or events like the in season tournament. The players don't care and fans can only care as much as the players they're watching. If you have to make rules so the players are contractually obligated to care, the fans won't either.

[@MajorFailure-e3m]

NBA is the only professional sport in the world that speaks ill of the players in the past era, they tear down greats to fit a narrative that Lebron 💉💉 is the greatest player ever even though he average s

[@logomarkz]

People don't care because you have 80+ games per season, so a lot of those games don't matter. Look at Euroleague, they have like 30 games before "playoff", literaly every point matters, and league is thriwing.

[@kurgerbing6945]

You're pointing to a core issue: when players seem disengaged or uninterested, it creates a chain reaction where fans find it tough to invest fully as well. It feels like the NBA has had to resort to "motivating" players with these rules and incentives, almost as if it’s compensating for a lack of intrinsic competitiveness in some parts of the league. The new player participation policies and anti-tanking rules highlight how the NBA has had to legislate motivation, which can feel forced and, to fans, somewhat disingenuous. The Pistons’ situation is a great example. Rebuilding is always part of sports, but it's been a 15-year stretch with few sparks, and for dedicated fans, that’s a long wait. In some ways, the league’s attempt to keep everyone “in contention” by expanding the playoffs feels like a band-aid rather than a fix. Instead of addressing why there’s a lack of intensity or why certain teams fall into endless cycles of irrelevance, they just add more playoff spots, diluting the achievement. At the end of the day, leagues are most compelling when players are naturally invested. That authentic energy is contagious. If fans see a player giving everything night after night, they’ll get behind that player and team, no rules needed. But without that buy-in from the players, these rule changes risk coming across as hollow, and that translates to fans feeling even less connected.

[@Xnozea]

@@logomarkz but bro euroleague participating teams also play in their own leagues. For instance Barcelona plays both in Spanish division and Euroleague.

[@MKO3090]

This is it! The problem is, it would take a dramatic reshaping of the league I don't see happening. Less games because too many are meaningless. Less playoff seats because 2/3 of the league in the postseason is absurd. I have no idea how this can happen, but less player movement. Not only stars (which the league has put a lot of effort in), but role players too. Teams need to be able to create identity and eventually rivalries through culture and personality built through the Draft. The League needs to reinstitute an age restriction so that hopefully more players will go to college. At least 20 (19 makes it a joke). The NCAA was a great environment for player personal development and future professional relationships/competition. With NILs, this is possible today without wage theft. I like the idea this creator had about interesting events in-season. Outdoors, in different cities/countries, spectacles. Etc, etc... How do players, how does anyone, begin to care again? Make them feel like it matters. Getting there is a process. Right now, it feels like the NBA, NBAPA, and everyone else has its head in the sand because they can't see the problem with all the money. But in 10 years, if Amazon sees the NBA is really only a late spring/early summer product, they'll find out in negotiations.

[@jameswoods5096]

Name the biggest rivalry in the nba right now? Yeah, i can't, either. All other sports have it. NBA used to have it. Not anymore

[@chrisuncleahmad666]

There were no NBA rivalries in the old days outside of Lakers/Celtics

[@vdoggydogg3922]

@@chrisuncleahmad666 Pacers/Knicks, Bulls/Knicks, Piston/Bulls..guess you never really watched in the 90's.

[@chrisuncleahmad666]

@@vdoggydogg3922 Bulls/Knicks was the most one sided “rivalry” in NBA history

[@vdoggydogg3922]

@chrisuncleahmad666 noticed you didn't comment on the others

[@Grievous_]

Nba killed “TEAM” rivalries by removing the divisions!! The standings USED to be based on whoever won their division but now it’s just the teams with the 8 best records in each conference

[@hogziller]

The NBA has a "4th quarter" problem.... when you only need to watch the 4th quarter since the games are always close then you have a problem. Everything is lazy in the NBA until the playoffs since you can walk into the playoffs with a losing record.... reduce the number of games, drop the playoffs teams to 6. Don't focus on the players, focus on the teams.... players come and go but the team remains... the NFL has realized this

[@lauramalik5156]

Come on. I remember back in the day regular season games used to be competitive and games had actual emotion in them. Christmas day matchups meant something, and rivalries were real, and big-shot makers were an actual thing. The problem is simply, NBA players are coddled too much and enabled thanks to having no defense in the game. The NBA used to have enforcers. THERE ARE NO ENFORCERS IN THE GAME ANYMORE!!!

[@liguy181]

I'm not sure about that last point. You don't really see the Patriots talked about all that much these days, and the Chiefs weren't thought of much before the Reid/Mahomes era. What I can give is that the Patriots were a lot more than just Bill and Brady, though they were the center of attention. But that's also just the nature of the sport: All of the other major sports in North America are more of an actual "team sport" than basketball is.

[@staidenofanarchy]

The simple fact is that they've solved offense. They found a single, mathematically provable way to win games and every team is turning to that offensive system, and that's boring. They've legalized traveling, carrying, moving screens, and they've rendered two positions, 80% of the court, and the defensive side of the ball completely irrelevant. They need to make real changes to either the rules, the court, or both if they want to solve this. I say move the three point line back, 25 feet and have it end at the sidelines with no corner three. It's a gimmick the league added when it was dying and is a completely arbitrary reward system that the sport was not designed for. It limits offensive creativity in the same way illegal defense did in the 90s and it is the reason why every team runs the same offense.

[@chrisuncleahmad666]

20 years ago, the NBA had the exact opposite problem: they solved defense but offense was completely irrelevant It basically made me stop caring about basketball yet many others pine for that era

[@staidenofanarchy]

@@chrisuncleahmad666 I think 2008 to 2015 was a sweet spot where it wasn't rock em sock em basketball but it also wasn't three point golf. You still had teams running a bunch of different offensive systems, you had post play, but a lot of team ball and a healthy amount of threes.

[@Speedster___]

Don’t agree with the side. The 45 degree tho agree. The swish is satisfying

[@silversoulken]

@@Speedster___Me personally I would be down with preventing guys just standing at the corner, and I would think a lot of players would be happy to not do that either.

[@godjahmit]

This has lead to one style of play to exist. Teams that play a different way are unable to keep up, so we end up with 3 pt shooting contests.

[@wendellwilson8598]

I have been an NBA fan since 1972. The NBA today is hard to watch because of too many threes and lack of defense. The NBA is trash. Lebron James has killed the competitiveness of the NBA, not to mention the Bronny James debacle. Disgraceful.

[@sebas2001ify]

Oldhead ass response , lebron is hitler to yall

[@hillbilly21960]

I don’t agree with lack of defense I think because the floor is spread so much and there’s much less isolation ball it seems like less but actually it’s harder. It’s the load management crap that drives me insane. I have to work banged up. The idea that a 24 year old can’t play 30 minutes a game sounds insane to me , they should be able to play two games a day at that age.

[@MazeDaGr8]

My main disconnect from the NBA is simply on the grounds of it just doesn't feel fun or exciting as it did years ago 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@BiggieTrismegistus]

Something is definitely off. I'm not that much of an NBA fan but I'd watch the Finals and some of the earlier playoff games. The past few years I just haven't been able to get into the games. They're boring now.

[@elhajjmalikel6266]

What originally began the decline is when LeBron went to Miami in 2010. The superteam era is what really killed it. 2009-2010 season and before had so many teams in both small and big markets that had stars and/or really great players, so you had a nice variety to choose from. Stars wanting to team up really killed that competitive spirit in the game. Also, you can tell the game is lacking testosterone. A lot of these guys today don't have that dog in them like eras before. These guys are too friendly with each other now.

[@300thNPC]

​@@elhajjmalikel6266 Lebron going to the Heat made the NBA even more popular

[@elhajjmalikel6266]

@300thNPC because if controversy, but it ultimately was the downfall of the league because everyone wanted to start doing the superteam thing. It got really stale really fast, especially when Kevin Durant went to the Warriors after almost beating them with the Thunder.

[@ZAYMOSELEY]

The NBA Is boring now everybody shoots 3s the power forward position is obsolete

[@djdarklyceum]

I never thought in 20 years of watching NBA would I say these words but next year.. I'll be watching the MLB over NBA.

[@icansellcorn2aindian]

It’s a good thing they aren’t on at the same time so you won’t have to choose

[@alexlilano1931]

MLB is awesome and got a lot better. That Freeman walk off grand slam was amazing in the World Series. One of the most amazing thing I saw in sports. He dedicated to his dad too.

[@knowthemethods]

the pitchclock saved baseball

[@michaelshields6326]

Watch an actually exciting sport like hockey.

[@liguy181]

The two seasons barely overlap lol. Though there is another sport that plays a lot of games in the same arenas as NBA teams. Check out a hockey game if you're able to, tickets are usually cheaper too depending on the market.

[@uberneanderthal]

ain't no way you're blaming Jokic. he's the only reason to watch this trash heap. here are the real problems: 1. 5-out/3-point centric ball is unwatchable 2. lack of competitive fire, exemplified by the all-star game 3. obnoxious social messaging shoved in our face (see the shirts at 3:30 for an example) 4. load management and players just being soft in general 5. lebron and everything he represents

[@shatoshi331]

Jokic is just boring slowpoke

[@Chris-wq3pe]

100% on everything you said bro

[@zoemann3042]

So you’re mad because a league full of African Americans is advocating for better treatment of those who represent their league.

[@xKingKB7x]

You have people that hate Lebron but watches everything he does. Doubt he’s the problem. And teams will continue to shoot 3s because that’s winning basketball. Times changed

[@slimbibi7329]

4 out of 5 i can agree with , the problem with the “obnoxious social messaging “ isn’t the words , it’s the sentiment that those words have to be said at all. No one says a word when Political slogans are rammed down our throat in EVERY major sport in this country….unless it’s …You know…”advocating for justice for a certain population “

[@MrKurtykurt]

Ppl assume things “evolve” simply bc time passes. Maybe the average overall player is “more skilled” or “more athletic,” but unless you learn the fundamentals of the larger purpose, maximizing your ability to improve your TEAM, individual skill and ability is meaningless. Jordan became a superstar winning steals and scoring titles in the 80s, but couldn’t win a playoff game vs Celtics even when putting 60+pts, and even tho they were led by a guy who was winning a bunch of individual awards. Bc that guy’s focus was always improving the TEAM, and the stats and individual awards were simply a product of those efforts. Guys today think it can work the other way around. They think if they maximize their individual stats it maximizes their value to the team. It doesn’t. Blame it on AAU, blame it on players not going to college, blame it on guys receiving huge life setting contracts b4 they ever have to prove themselves in the league. It’s all of the above, and it’s created a league that plays inferior basketball. And this is what p!sses me off when ppl say “players are just better today” in a tone that implies anyone who disagrees has to be some biased “old head.” That WE ARE the ones who don’t understand “evolution.” Again, evolution requires “time passed” but correlation does not equal causation. So when coaches are incentivized to be glorified babysitters the players aren’t subordinate to, when the players are incentivized to maximize statistics, when the referees are incentivized to not call traveling and double dribbles, when fundamentals and team basketball isn’t prioritized, the game can’t and HASN’T evolved. The teams of today aren’t beating the ‘86 Celtics or the ‘92 Bulls, even if they do have “better” or more “skilled” players. And if you don’t agree that’s fine, but ppl always seem to disagree, then can’t provide any significant reason teams, as 5 guys playing as an individual unit, actually have gotten better in the last 20 years. The problem isn’t their lack of evidence and understanding of how and why things evolve, the problem is I’m just an old head who can’t accept “players are better” now

[@georgegoble6054]

nba in big trouble, LOLOLOLOLOLOL The NBA's new TV contract is an 11-year, $76 billion agreement with ESPN/ABC, NBCUniversal, and Amazon Prime Video that begins with the 2025-26 season. This deal represents a 160% increase per season compared to the current contract.

[@MrKurtykurt]

@ Well, aside from the fact I never said the NBA was in big trouble, you immediately google the huge network contract they just inked to, I guess, “disprove” all the reasons the game might not be evolving the way you simply assume it is. Using the all mighty dollar as the sole criteria for the health of the product. Again, correlation does not equal causation. I mean, it’s impossible to truly comprehend all the variables that go into negotiating giant 11yr network contracts with a product as HUGE and recognizable as the NBA. Most of which have nothing to do with the actual game of basketball. So the implication that this new contract simply disproves any evidence of diminishing quality in the actual game is an egregious over simplification

[@lo-fiFromChicago]

They let the players make the product

[@chrisuncleahmad666]

20 years ago, the product was about hyping up individual matchups at the expense of teams yet people pine for that era

[@substance806]

@@chrisuncleahmad666 now they dnt have a match up to hype cause no one knows the players but die hard fans lol imagine promotimg shai vs luka like its iverson vs shaq 0r kobe vs mcgrady 😂 forget about it

[@tonylvez]

just like in baseball the season is too long. theres so many other options nowadays that fans are going to become more casual during the regular season and maybe tune into the later rounds of the playoffs

[@ComputerEarly]

Too many ads, too much load management, too many divas and the regular season has zero interest. What used to be interesting with the trade deadline is basically dead from the whole tax apron. You could literally hit "Sim to the Playoffs" and not miss anything notable

[@georgegoble6054]

nba in big trouble, LOLOLOLOLOLOL The NBA's new TV contract is an 11-year, $76 billion agreement with ESPN/ABC, NBCUniversal, and Amazon Prime Video that begins with the 2025-26 season. This deal represents a 160% increase per season compared to the current contract.

[@FrederickFokker]

Could be that every possession of every NBA game goes like this: dribble past half court, pass, pass, shoot 3pt. Repeat 200 times.

[@lauramalik5156]

I used to tune in to the NBA pretty much every day, just because I was a fan of players like KG, Paul Pierce and Jeremy Lin at one time. Players who played with heart and had likeable personalities off the court. Now, the NBA has a serious lack of likeable personalities and even worse is the league has no diversity in style of play like it did in the past.

[@zipo1039]

😂😂😂 travel,travel push and flop!

[@jerrypastrana8176]

One of the things that doesn't get talked about enough is the lack of a team identity. No matter how bad the team was, every team had their own approach & style towards playing the game. Every team plays the exact same now. You had the 7 seconds or less Suns, ball movement heavy Spurs, Defensive Pistons, Triangle offense Lakers, you get the point. Not only that, you didn't have teams stacking themselves up with 3-4 stars only to suffer an early playoff exits. Teams built around one player whether it was a PG or C. Positionless basketball is also hurting the product. I hate the idea that a Center is expected to be able to effectively guard a guy that's half his size & twice as fast or a guy that's 6'3" playing the PF. It's absolutely ridiculous. There needs to be a balance between entertainment & fundamentals also. So many things to list off.

[@KB-313]

Regular season doesn't matter, and the postseason is officiated completely differently.

[@lauramalik5156]

Also it sucks when the personalities you root for of the stars are names like Lebron, KD and Curry as your main guys, along with Anthony Davis from the U.S. I'd rather cheer on Paul Pierce, Tim Duncan, Kobe, Tracy McGrady, KG, Allen Iverson. That era actually played with emotion and had attitude. Jamal Crawford even said it best, the emotion in the game is gone.

[@PrickFlair]

You got Lakers/Celtics players after the game hugging and showing love to one another… ITS G4Y!

[@xenon157]

That's called sportsmanship dumbass

[@georgegoble6054]

nba in big trouble, LOLOLOLOLOLOL The NBA's new TV contract is an 11-year, $76 billion agreement with ESPN/ABC, NBCUniversal, and Amazon Prime Video that begins with the 2025-26 season. This deal represents a 160% increase per season compared to the current contract.

[@natesexton9477]

the problem is that there seriously isn’t any really good young exciting players. i’ve been saying this for years. they needed zion to pan out so bad, lebron has no one to hand the keys to. it went from magic and bird to jordan to kobe and shaq to lebron and curry. but that’s it, there’s no one to take over.

[@TsunamiWebster]

Good point..

[@feynmanschwingere_mc2270]

The answer is simple: LeBron James. The two lowest rated NBA Finals games (by Nielsen Ratings) in the past 2 decades featured LeBron James (vs San Antonio in 2007 and vs Miami in 2020). The league catered to his style of play: Dunks/transition layups and 3 pointers (especially the corner 3, which is shorter). They catered to his propensity for load management and faking injuries: He has played 82 games only once in his entire career (20+ years) and has averaged less games per season than AD since 2019 (55 to 57). No respect for the fans. He sits out several games a year which is a slap in the face to paying fans. Nepotism and player empowerment: LeBron leveraged his contract extension to strongarm the Lakers into hiring his podcast buddy JJ Redneckkk and drafting his bum son Bronny James. This is an insult to intelligent fans. Flopping: Lebron is a notorious flopper and foul baits contact for cheap fouls/points. Fans see this. It gives the sense that the games are rigged and the league now feels like the WWE. The Lakers have the biggest FT differential in the NBA since 2019 despite being almost dead last in drives to the basket. Lack of competitiveness: In the Lebron/Curry Era (but i blame LeBron for this not Curry), the All Star game has been pathetic. Under Lebron, the all star has become a joke with nobody trying. In the Kobe Era, the all star game was must see TV, now it sucks because Lebron lacks the competitivness of Kobe and MJ, the real GOATS (and Obama is saying this!). The in-season tournament felt tacky and the players, again, did not take it seriously. It felt like an empty trophy. There was zero logic in which teams played which teams and the tournament has no value relative to the Larry O'Brien trophy. SuperTeams and the destruction of TEAM rivalries (in exchange for the cult of personality of players): Lebron started the player empowerment era and the SuperTeam Era by colluding illegally with 2 other HOFers and 2 of the top 10 players in the NBA (Bosh was top 3 in PER) to form the Heatles was a mistake. It felt like a slap in the face of GENUINE competition. The best players should be trying to lift their own franchises to BEAT the other best players in the LEAGUE. This is how you build the brand of the individual franchise and how you get fans loyal to the teams not just the star player. Kevin Durant and others have since followed the Lebron blueprint to cheap rings. Again, showing fans that they are not in the business of genuine competition. Fans need to feel like the competition is authentic but the NBA increasingly has a WWE feel to it since Lebron became Adam Silvers favorite son. Lebron typifies the current toxic trend of team-hopping and superteaming. This doesnt build fan loyalty whatsoever. The poor fundamentals: Basketball purists don't watch the NBA anymore because most of the League has poor fundamentals and poor footwork. It feels like aau ball, or what Phil Jackson calls "accidental basketball." Drives for layups, if the defense collpases, kick it out for a 3 pointer. Lather, rinse repeat. This has led to a league where every game is a 3 point contest and thus EVERY team plays the exact same way. I also blame analytics for this. There is no midrange game in the NBA anymore. When ratings were at their highest the NBA was a midrange league (highest volume shot type). The midrange is unironically LeBrons worst shot type (he shots 36% outside of 3 feet). The league has catered to his strengths. The amount of uncalled travels, double dribbles, and uncalled offensive fouls is an eye sore for purists. Lebron is a notoriously bad one on one player and has entire compilations of traveling on youtube. Lastly, PEDs. He clearly is using EPO and HGH. The NBA has a bizarrly low rate of catching PED cheats. Chael Sonnen accused Lebron of taking PEDs, as has Kevin Garnett (at least implied), but the league has yet to investigate this. This further diminishes trust in the integrity of the game and you lose but casual and purists alike. Ratings are suffering to all time lows at a time when the NBA has continued to promote a 40 year old has-been as the face of the league. Let that sink in. Lebron has become a cancer to the NBA. The league peaked under MJ and the Ratings were phenomenal under Kobe. Whe. Curry plays the Finals, rating are high. And yet two of the worst performing NBA Finals featured LeBron James (07 and 2020). Its not a coincidence. He has shepherded the destruction of the NBA. Look at what he's doing to the Lakers, Kobe is rolling in his grave (RIP mamba). Lebron is nowhere near GOAT material not even close. Overrating and overhyping him is how the league got here. Fact.

[@Gurenn83]

You nailed it! 💯

[@LysergiCoyotl]

touch grass buddy

[@orealfortes]

this level of hating is wicked works 😂

[@Mitra131]

You okay buddy?

[@bogmanosaka472]

Lmao where did lebron touch you? 😅

[@j_mad]

I dont understand how the revenue keeps going up every year. It just rewards players for sitting and not playing.

[@staidenofanarchy]

@@j_mad sports are basically the last bastion of live TV, the NBA signs huge TV deals even if viewership is down

[@alexlilano1931]

The NBA got a huge deal with NBC and Amazon. It is about a decade deal too, but the thing is TNT is now out. Inside the NBA is gone next year. That is a crazy thing to do. A lot of NBA fans love Charles Barkley and Ernie Johnson, Kenny, and Shaq. They threw them away like yesterday trash. Barkley said that it hurt him because most of his friends work Inside the NBA for decades and they are out of the job. With all Adam Sliver hate, he knows how to make money, but Adam Sliver seems to be money first. I have to say ten years is a good amount of time and it was a lot of money. It is hard to say no business wise, but he destoryed a lot of the fun Inside the NBA creates. I'm not a businessman. Adam Sliver is making a lot money who am I to judge his decisions.

[@j_mad]

@alexlilano1931 Bingo!!!! Silver and all the other commissioners might be ruining the game for the fans but they are all putting so much money in the owners pockets at the expense of the fans.

[@carboy101]

@@j_madeventually that’s gonna come to a dead end

[@MisterJonesification]

Because the idiotic, dime a dozen, generic, 'teh nba is ova doom and gloom types' are wrong, and the game keeps growing globally. They even all sound the same as this fool narrating the video.

[@jpmnky]

It used to be baseball that was stifled by purists and old timers. For better or worse the MLB underwent a lot of changes the last decade or so. Now it’s the NBA hanging on to one player who is waning and irrelevant. They have so many young marketable stars and an entire rookie class this year being ignored for one old tired ridiculous storyline. That is corny and staged and pathetic. The NBA has caused themselves permanent damage by the way they have handled the 2020s so far.

[@zhen86]

Leborn made the NBA sucked, and many leborn fan still saying he is great.

[@johnnydepp4866]

The NBA has ignore its rising stars, but instead milking what’s left of the old generation of superstars in LeBron,Curry,KD, Westbrook and Harden

[@manager4409]

MLB needs to cut it's regular season games. 162 I'm surprised they even sell tickets to that many games

[@justtimes9257]

RIP to the great David Stern, what he built has been ruined within a few years after leaving his post and it's a damn shame

[@chrisuncleahmad666]

David Stern didn’t build a damn thing He just coasted off Magic Bird and MJ

[@justtimes9257]

@ 😂😂😭😭😂😂 of course he benefited from the great player of that era, but being commissioner of a league is not only about the players it's about how the league represent itself how needs to operate the financial stakes and decisions to increase business and the management of people plus dealing with the owners of the league too

[@tonylvez]

david stern rigged games and drafts.

[@justtimes9257]

@@tonylvez and what's your point she did whatever it took for the lead to be a successful

[@tonylvez]

@@justtimes9257 Because he made the game fake. You think fans want to watch something they know is rigged? You will hear complaints by fans about how it is scripted and you think thats good? Gambling has made it even worse but stern created this mess.

[@Chris-e3o2u]

Down 42% is nuts year to year

[@ImRanchWilder]

are they counting those who watch illegal streams?

[@someguyjohn6599]

@@ImRanchWilderNope. Illegal streaming is actually up. The viewership problem actually has very little to do with anything in this video. It’s simple harder to watch games without subscribing to three different streaming services. LeaguePass is a terrible app

[@richerichism]

Every “face of the league” has grown the game and increased interest over time. Today’s NBA “faces” have destroyed the leagues credibility.

[@gamble777888]

Also people who romanticize the rougnness, it's really not even the roughness that's missing. It's the toughness. Players back in the 80s played every single game, 36-38 mins a game if they were the top starters. They didn't miss games, they flew comercial, they stayed at whatever hotel. The game was played at a much higher pace, and I'm not talking about pace = posessions, I'm talking about running up and down the floor and defending with intensity all game. Today's pace is supposedly "fast" but really it's not, teams are just standing around the three point line and running pick and rolls all game. There are more posessions because teams are playing from 3pt line to 3pt line instead of end to end. The lack of intensity is the REAL problem, players don't seem like they even care about winning half the time during the regular season, and even at times during the playoffs. So much laziness from so many team so many nights. Some players in the league seem outright in poor condition. They play 20 mins a game, routinely get rest from both games and pracitces via load management, fly in private jets. They are pampered spoiled millionaires who on top of everything seem to complain all the time.

[@dontbanmebrodontbanme5403]

How to fix the NBA: 1. Get rid of the gather step - basically, the offensive player can now take 3 steps, making it easier to score 2. Actually call travel, or else it's easier to score (you'll notice a theme here) 3. Bring back hand checking - it's too easy to score and defenses have no tools to stop anyone 4. If a defender jumps straight up and the offensive player jumps into him, the foul should be called on the offensive player, or it's too easy to score 5. IF BASICALLY EVERY TEAM MAKES THE PLAYOFFS, THE REGULAR SEASON HAS NO MEANING!!! Sorry, but I felt the need to scream that. The three division winners and two wild cards in each conference should make the playoffs, with each conference winner getting a first round bye. What's the purpose of watching regular season games if basically the whole league makes the playoffs anyway? What's the purpose of winning 60+ games, if the only reward is one extra home game against a 41 win team? 6. Guaranteed contracts need to be a little less guaranteed. You play at least 65 games? You get your full season's worth of game checks. Play 55 - 64 games? You get 80% of your game checks. 54 games or less, you get a check for every game you play. This formula can be tweaked so that the numbers make sense. But imagine there are 11 games left in the season and a player has only played 55 games. They need to play 10 out of the next 11 games to get their full season's worth of checks. You better believe they're going to play at least 10 games. Right now, there's ZERO INCENTIVE for players to play. As someone who's watched the NBA seriously since 1980, when I hear that someone got 40 points, I'm no longer impressed. Everything is a foul, offensive players NEVER get called for travel and there are way too many tricks that get rewarded, like taking a 3 and purposely landing on the foot of the defender to get a foul call (I'm looking at you, James Harden). I want to see great plays, not great foul calls! I remember the showdown games between Magic and Bird. Imagine, it's Christmas day and those two teams are playing...but Magic has decided he's load managing that game, Robert Parish got suspended 5 games for posting on social media with a gun and Kurt Rambis beat up his girlfriend and has been indefinitely suspended by the league. Would you spend $1,000 to go to a game today, knowing there's an awfully good chance one if not multiple stars are not going to be playing? I'd rather watch KZbin video of MJ playing than actual games today!

[@Koopdville1]

🎯 that basically made it legal to travel. all because of players like gianni's and harden. they really trying to convince the viewer that they r watching the best bball ever.

[@geminisneverlie]

don't forget about how offensive players are allowed to aggressively push defenders away and never get called for an offensive foul. while defenders cant even breathe on the offense. it really makes the game look like a joke!

[@lauramalik5156]

I got an idea? Give the players less power, stop making scoring easy, bring actual emotion back into the game, and cut any player with those shitty haircuts or who listens to bullshit new school rap music or thinks they are wack gangster like Jah Morant. The NBA is a players league, and the players are absolute prima donna bitches surrounding by yes men like JJ Reddick. the NBA gets what it deserves, and I'm glad the fans are boycotting what was once one of the best sports leagues in the world.

[@willingexile3374]

Idea 6 sounds good. Idea 5 looks workable, the playoff format in the 23-team league prior to 1984 was a first-round bye for the top two seeds and three-game first round series for seeds 3-6, with best-of-seven for the rest of the rounds. The NBA got too greedy and made best-of-seven first round series the season after Jordan's second retirement. The rest of the fixes are just a matter of implementation of the rules. Considering the notion of relegation more now, so there are less teams in the regular season and more room for rivalries. Top 20 teams play in the upper bracket, put in 12 teams including the expansion candidates in Division II. Four games vs. conference rivals, two games vs. the other conference, total of 56 games. Twenty or so games for the NBA Cup, which involves all the teams, so there is still inter-division play. There's a separate championship but settled early on, preferably by Christmas Day or maybe All-Star break. The minuses to be in Division II? Less share of the profits, because they will play less games. Four games against 11 opponents, so 44 games. Relegation system can be worked out, maybe record over three years instead of annual relegation. There are still some fixes for the draft I've thought of, but I don't want to be thinking out loud as I type this comment.

[@michaelgordonsaxophone]

Plus the players switch teams so much now. How can you build support for a team that has totally different players each year.

[@A_Brion]

A lot of it is politics as well. NBA and its players are pretty left leaning so some people don't support them anymore.

[@kevingreene4090]

Basketball ain't have a good and memorable finals in like a decade, the world series was like 5 games but each game was good, had a moment and was star driven

[@gajemouje]

Larry Magic MJ even Kobe brought the league up..Bron ruined it

[@vinsanity3510]

The league is obviously disingenuous and clearly favors certain markets. Lakers vs Kings 2002 spoiled the sport. The modern lakers free throw differential also continues to sour the brand. Lebron is visibly sippin juice, it’s why he has throwing all those emotional tantrums last year. The players don’t love the game no more. It’s corrupted nearly beyond repair.

[@bball3048mmfr]

Remember Kobe elbowing Mike Bibby right in the face and the ref not calling it at all?

[@patrickoakley7890]

​@bball3048mmfr the Kings should have won that series in 6 games but the NBA very obviously pushed it to 7 for ratings.

[@vinsanity3510]

@@bball3048mmfr I love Kobe that moment exactly is why he cannot be my goat. He’s number 3 behind Tim Duncan to me.

[@anthonymalecki6615]

The league is too soft now. Too much 3pt shooting, guys switching to better teams, load management, lack of hustle on D. The games just lack the intensity they used to.

[@RocketMan-vc8sr]

The nba sucks. The World Series was so much more exciting.

[@chrisuncleahmad666]

Was it?

[@ItIsBigSmoke]

Absolutely

[@almighty7709]

Comparing the end of a season to the beginning of another is wild. People don't watch regular season baseball ticket prices are 20$

[@petersonofleo11]

​@@chrisuncleahmad666yeah even if the World Series ended in 5 games. Game 1 was a classic, game 2 the Yankees were extremely close of making a comeback. Game 5 watching the Yankees collapse was entertaining.

[@Riles3152]

It actually was. Of course my Dodgers were in it so that helps 😂

[@SI-cd7xs]

Jordans legacy, making NBA one of the biggest sports leagues in the world, Lebrons legacy, bringing the NBA to record low popularity The league sucks. Regular season doesn't matter. Too many games. Too soft.

[@JacobGore-x9j]

I may be wrong but doesn't real NBA start during May

[@j_mad]

No it starts July 1st when free agency starts

[@f1champ551]

No... Tbh to me it's Christmas.

[@javianjohnson8746]

*April 15-ish, which is the first week of the playoffs.

[@carboy101]

When did NBA players stop being replaceable? They draft 60 new players every year because these players are legitimately replaceable

[@fuel20]

Pretty much as an old NBA fan, when I see it today I just see everyone breaking the rules and rolling my eyes win they say they're more athletic.

[@markuscwatson]

Too many threes, too much entitlement, and too much “social justice” bs... Cannot watch.

[@Alexander_Grant]

On the uniform point, my high school coach used to be anal about how we wore our uniforms. His motto was, "Look good, feel good. Feel good, play good." I think it's absolutely true, and I don't think it's a superficial boost.

[@burnout3722]

NBA League Pass is a waste of money if you're a fan of your local regional NBA team.

[@dannymac6368]

15:30 “They played a college game on a Call of Duty map.” You are a genius.

[@alexl.4362]

I miss the early 2000s era.

[@John6-40]

You lost me at "today's players are definitely more athletic", which is such a bullshit take. David Robinson, Hakeem and Shaq were going coast to coast in the 90's. Guys with 40" verts and speed have always existed. The difference is clearly that the modern gen doesn't have to abide by any dribbling rules, and the paints are more wide open than ever. These allow for flashier handles, more dunks, etc. But if you go back and pick any random game from the 80's or 90's, not highlights, a game, and watch, you will see great feats of athleticism all over the place. I clicked off the video after that, because if you parrot that kind of nonsense, I doubt you have anything profound to say. Sorry.

[@robot_bender-q2r]

nah, you are right about load management today but I guess, {ste}roids use must have its impact on modern athleticism, so... i guess, roids enable more short-team power output but require time for cooldown, hence - load management

[@deathtoideologues]

The most athletic players of the 80's were every bit as athletic as todays players there just aren't as many of them. Dominique Wilkins for example.

[@Kwaj]

I agree. Dunk gods like Vince Carter, Shawn Kemp, Stromile Swift, and Kobe were slamming it home in highly contested paint against fierce centers like Mutombo, Marcus Camby, Theo Ratliff, Yao Ming, and Alonzo Mourning. The game today is just friggin' boring.

[@bball3048mmfr]

@@Kwaj Kobe is great and all but don't put him on the same sentence as Vince and Shawn. Kobe's dunk contest victory was the reason why it was cancelled the next season.

[@NYNJ1974]

He lost me at "today's players are definitely more athletic" too. I had to turn the video off and go straight to the comments to see if anyone caught that nonsense take.

[@ghtraining1]

Limit the number of teams that can make the playoffs. Stop rewarding bad teams with better lottery pick opportunities Make the game closer to Fiba rules... 10 minute quarters, less timeouts, quicker freethrows, much quicker review process. Anything to speed up the length of the game. The MLB made some good changes and the NBA needs to as well. Make the 3 point shot a harder attempt than a 2 point by allowing handchecking on the perimeter and stop allowing the guards to carry the ball and gain an extra step with a step back 3. The offense needs to be forced to move without the ball and be creative. All the teams now play the same style. Make the regular season more competitive and mean something!!!

[@jeanrobin1]

you forgot the main point : too many 3 points

[@arsenioseslpodcast3143]

We don't hate it, it's just the NBA isn't really the NBA anymore. No one plays defense and just jacks up threes. The regular season isn't what it used to be in the 1st decade, all thanks to Stephen. So it's a dumpster fire.

[@ripharambe4796]

basket the ball

[@bball3048mmfr]

I am still struggling with the idea that the NBA's aura can or cannot survive without Michael Jordan playing in a Bulls uniform. I remember when MJ retired in 93 to play baseball and there was a noticeable void from his absence. So you can imagine how stoked NBA fans like myself were when he came back in March of 1995. From 95 to June 98, I don't think I've ever followed a sports team as closely as I followed the Bulls during those 3 seasons. When MJ hit that shot against Utah on June 14, 1998, the NBA wasn't the same and became a less than stellar product to me. I am still struggling with this even 26+ years later. There was no magic that existed in the NBA when MJ was not playing for the Bulls during the 90s. Even his Wizards years were less compelling. It pains me to see younger NBA fans throwing shade at the 90s ("we done with the 90s") and prop up their own era of NBA fanhood at the expense of 90s NBA. As of 2024, I am still an NBA fan maybe because I have hopes I can experience the same magic as I experienced during the Bulls 6 title runs. NBA basketball runs too deep in my life. I see all of these videos talking about being an inferior product for years but yet here I am still watching it.

[@xenon157]

It can survive the 2010s Era was one of the greatest and it didn't need mjs so called aura dw mj is only brought up do to lebron 😂

[@kingaqua908]

​​@@xenon157 2010s era was mid and didn't have the ratings or views the 90s did. LeBron will never be as respected worldwide as Jordan so remember that everytime you decide to gargle LeDiddys nuts 😂

[@glovs4188]

NBA media is a joke. When you have jokic being the best player by a wide margin putting up historic numbers every game is getting less coverage than bronny. It's a complete crap.

[@cashoutdenzicey1293]

Cuz hes fucking boring nobody

[@cashoutdenzicey1293]

No one watches him playing he had the lowest watched finals in 20 years who tf wants to market a chubby dude who dont even look like he like basketball tf get tf outta here he will never be a star

[@linsithebe7080]

I think you missed the fact that The NBA is failing its fans, prices for regular season games live or on TV is too expensive, Media coverage is a joke, all they want to talk about is Lebron it hasn't made new stars, players play when they want and are less relevant to the culture than before Side note, Jerseys today are negligible by the season, just dull

[@KJimah]

Banchero has been balling and barely gets any national tv broadcast or hype. He's one of the recent number one picks to actually be living up to being number one

[@murasd07]

Him and Anthony Edwards are the only two that I love to watch these days. Hope Banchero makes a smooth recovery from his torn oblique...

[@elhajjmalikel6266]

I'm from Orlando, and I can say that even though I don't watch the NBA, this guy has got a game and look like players from the early 2000's.

[@SebPeg-q4q]

I think with how political the league became post Covid has had a real impact and turned fans off the game; the promotion of the WNBA - a product nobody cares about - has also had this same effect. In essence, people just want to see good quality, high level basketball without bs shoved down their throats.

[@awesomereviews1561]

The players are not much better. At all. The rules change from 2012 onwards make it look like it but it’s not true. The proof is in international competitions. The US players all underperformed. And against team with little or no NBA players. Last summer the US sent the most stacked squad since the first Dream Team and barely won. International rules are very close to 90’s/2000’s NBA rules.

[@shaft9000]

^ THIS one understands ^

[@alexlilano1931]

The USA had Embiid. He was born in Cameroonian. Embiid actually was a French citizen first before coming to America. The French booed him when he played in Olympics for the USA. Without Embiid, the USA would probably would had lost. The USA didnt have enough big men. The rest of the world caught up. Germany won the basketball world cup too.

[@nzb6784]

Make Defense Great Again.

[@PrickFlair]

Tik tok femboys couldn’t comprehend that concept… their attention spans are cooked.

[@415east]

The demise of the nba is due to terrible media coverage, too many 3s and lack of defense, obvious cheating for certain players and teams, star players moving too much causing fans to not follow teams and follow players instead which kills rivalry, load management, players not caring and openly saying the regular season don’t matter etc.

[@ghtraining1]

When I watched the Olympics I really enjoyed seeing a lot of the "stars" play under legitimate rules!! The NBA officiating and gameplay is just lazy!!!!!

[@deeno6626]

I think the answer is way simpler; BLM / WOKENESS in the NBA, coupled with absolutely ZERO defense/jacking up threes all game, and finally the game feels like a show now more than it feels like a competitive game.

[@TommyDavidVerbal]

You're exactly right

[@ghtraining1]

BLM was 5 years ago. Not an excuse for why the game sucks now

[@ZaKKsQuaTcH1]

Man, maybe focusing all their attention on generating media attention one single player for 20 years isn't a great approach. The NBA completely skipped a generation of stars and didn't just fail, but actively refused, to showcase them and commit media attention to them in favor of "proven talent." They ignored Lillard, Booker, Jokic, Antetokounmpo, and others and continued to ignore them until they were too good to avoid mention.

[@chrisuncleahmad666]

They focused all their attention in the 90s on one guy and got away with it It was all MJ all the time

[@saulspanco854]

​@@chrisuncleahmad666our attention wasnt as spread out with other pieces of media

[@TeeMilli0N]

All-Star game should be East vs. West. Winning conference gets home court advantage over equal seeds in the opposing conference regardless of the teams win/loss record. So, basically if the 1 seed from both conferences made it to the finals, the conference that won the all-star game gets home court. Even if the other team has a better record. That would get guys playing. It's gotta count for something more than money.

[@brilliantlybnard_7600]

No one has cable anymore and all the games are broadcasted on cable networks.

[@jewel6799]

No one is mentioning this. But this is the key reason. Viewers 50 years and under including my children, refused to pay for cable because it was too expensive. That is when viewership started falling. They lost generations of viewers. None of my sons' friends, after they left home could afford cable. They stopped watching sports. Years later there are alternatives, and they watch mainly football.

[@lemuelreyes1941]

I feel like it's not just the NBA but basketball as a game. The courts I go to used to be full of players in the summers but now it's almost a ghost town. Sad!!!

[@NonyaBuzinezz]

Maybe if the media didnt get on their knees to service LeBron every single night, or the refs didnt go blind to help LeBron, or the refs didnt hallucinate bail out fouls to help LeBron, or lebron didnt whine constrantly while never getting a technical foul, the league might be okay.

[@xenon157]

The reason lebron complains is because lebron played in the 2000s Era. Where the same rules as the 80s and 90s were in act. He complains cause the refs don't wanna call the bs the players are doing. Maybe open your eyes dumbass😂

[@alphaomega1351]

I beg to differ. Today's players are nothing in comparison to the 80s and 90s. Nobody plays defense, and every player wants to play guard and shoot 3 pointers. 🤓

[@marvinstrong9374]

THANK YOU! Can't believe this guy said that stupid crap. There's barely any 2 way superstars, barely any real big men, barely any team fundamentals, ect. But he thinks it makes them better becausw they're allowed to carry and travel and chuck up three's

[@One.Zero.One101]

Yeah people keep saying the players are more athletic but I don't see anybody play above the rim like Shawn Kemp, Vince Carter, Dominique Wilkins, Jason Richardson, Blake Griffin. Those dudes had trampoline legs. Players like Jordan and Drexler can glide through the air. A lot of players today can barely reach the rim when they do their ugly one-handed dunks. A lot of players aren't faster than Iverson, D. Wade, Marbury, Steve Francis. A lot of players aren't stronger than Shaq, Ben Wallace, Rodman.

[@tangerinedream106]

Been a NBA fan for over 16 years now and this is the first time I haven't really tuned into games consistently, idk why. Maybe the game is boring now because of all similar styles of offense, maybe social media sucked all of the fun out of the game, maybe i just don't have the patience to sit through over a hour worth of commercials, foul calls, and officals reviews multiple games everyday.

[@shawnorjiakor]

Athletes aren't better today than the past. Injury prone, lack of availability, too much entitlement, less skilled, durability, etc.

[@oacevedo81]

One major thing missing from the NBA - the lack of rivalries... Rivalries are huge in sports. Check out the NFL or go back and watch the Magic/Bird era and see how their rivalry basically saved the NBA from going bankrupt. Without rivalries, the regular season loses significance. Offense/Defense - There's too much leniency on the offense while hindering the defense. This creates a natural imbalance. The NBA needs to add some counterweight in the form of adjustments/rule changes to make the game more balanced. Give the defense more room to operate, give the offense less room to operate, or a combination of both to strike a better balance. Right now, the game is so heavily in favor of the offense, that players can essentially neglect developing their defensive skills and focus solely on offense.

[@kevinbesnyi9751]

The NBA has been fn garbage since a few years before Kobe retired it is nothing but shit now it was so fn good ain the nd 80s 90s LeBron sucks the NBA blows

[@chrisuncleahmad666]

We Done With The 2000s

[@kingaqua908]

​@@chrisuncleahmad666 Who's we? Speak for yourself lol 2000s pulled more views and ratings than this garbage era that barely anyone is watching. It seems like according to the views that people are done with this soft sensitive coddled woke era 😂

[@the_smart_cookies_pod]

The game is not physical enough, plain and simple

[@arsenioseslpodcast3143]

not defensive enough

[@moonswan7587]

If you hate defense and love free throws do i have the league for you

[@soupwithfriends]

saying embiid could be a generational talent but the perception is that he isn't cause people think he flops is one of the most brain dead takes i have heard in my life.

[@wbae1340]

The game isn’t physical and 3 pointers are the biggest problem, with emphasis on the 3 pointers. Nobody wants to watch a game consisting of teams taking turns each possession throwing up a 3 pointer. Also it’s gotten kinda ghetto too haha

[@themuaddib]

Adam West Batman was peak Batman. All these new Batmen are too serious. Batman should be campy and fun!

[@jamesesterline]

14:06 Also keep in mind Obama was a star basketball player back in college so he knows what he's talking about

[@dennisdezarn5895]

My ass 🍑

[@alexlilano1931]

Even the former president of the USA said the NBA is terrible. That is something. The NBA also threw away Inside the NBA like Yesterday trash for a big paycheck from NBC and Amazon. Inside the NBA was the only good thing about the NBA. Charles Barkley said the worst thing about this is his friends who worked for the Inside the NBA for decades are out of the job. Barkley is the most honest man and you he meant it. Like is there anymore more reason to dislike the NBA. The NBA going to lose a lot fun from Inside the NBA.

[@andiakpan8502]

Crazy how the players are the most protected they’ve ever been but also the most injury prone they’ve ever been

[@jpmnky]

The next generation of young stars are HERE NOW. Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, Luka Doncic, Anthony Edwards, ect. Giannis and Jokic are veteran superstars. You got Wemby and Paolo. Market these guys and STOP with 95% LeBron James coverage. They already tapered off of GSW and Curry. Do the same with the perpetual 7-8 seed LA Lakers. And their lame old man. Enough is enough. They are destroying the league year by year with all this ridiculousness.

[@WJones23]

How did you make a video about this without mentioning RSNs, broadcast deals, or illegal streams? The actual issue. Not “jerseys” 😂😂

[@50Nobody50]

seems to me the actual issue is that you have a league populated with people who don't want to play. No other league has this problem. Just these tards. NFL players would prefer to turn their brain to salad than not play. In the NBA, they sit before they sprain their pussy, just in case.

[@junson3209]

it's easy, Lebum started this super team era leading to player empowerment and on top of that his boy friend Adam Silver supports this disaster

[@christopherlouisecheng690]

Indeed!! No need for a long a*s video like this..he even said it multiple times that one of the reasons why Nba is falling apart is bcoz of the dunk contest!!! Who do we think killed that??who was the superstar who was so afraid to join and lose??? The reason why superstars in today's game doesnt want to join too..

[@KathrynFloyd-sl1pz]

Liar! He did not, multiple teams have had Hall of Famers. It's a business, and LBJ treats it as such. Something tells me a lot of the criticism is because black athletes are making millions of dollars and controlling their careers, and not the plantation owners! Funny, there's no pushback against the MLB; guaranteed contracts and very few black players today! The NBA is popular world-wide, and will continue to gain fans with the young talent playing now. Don't like it, don't watch it! You don't like LBJ, but monitor his every move, I give no attention to someone I can't stand....it's creepy to comment about someone you can't stand! The NBA will be just fine, and LBJ puts buts in the arena seats!

[@MisterJonesification]

@@KathrynFloyd-sl1pz The Lebron haters/MJ nuthuggers like the dummy you're responding to obviously don't watch basketball. Every year some generic, same sounding fool like this guy that posted this trash clip posts the same 'Teh nba is doomed!!" garbage, yet they won't leave. Bye, idiots go hug your MJ dvds and nostalgia goggles, and the nba and it's actual fans will be just fine.

[@elhajjmalikel6266]

This is what I been saying for years. The 2009-2010 NBA season was the end of an era. That 2010 free agency fiasco, especially with LeBron going to the Miami Heat, forever changed the trajectory of the league. After that is when the superteam era came in heavily. That killed my enthusiasm for the game. I hated the league ever since then. I still watched for a few years but hated it because I knew it just wasn't the same NBA anymore.

[@claytondenton2385]

I was in the ICU during that Allstar game this past year I was in extreme pain and yet. That Allstar game was more painful to watch

[@georgegoble6054]

nba in big trouble, LOLOLOLOLOLOL The NBA's new TV contract is an 11-year, $76 billion agreement with ESPN/ABC, NBCUniversal, and Amazon Prime Video that begins with the 2025-26 season. This deal represents a 160% increase per season compared to the current contract.

[@zipo1039]

😂😂😂NBA is a disaster!

[@juniorrodriguez_LA]

Everybody hates lediddy james, the nba will come back when lediddy 'cant win with out a super team' james quit's

[@PrickFlair]

LeBalco’s fake GOAT praise is insufferable.

[@xenon157]

Actually lebron is the man reason why people watch the leauge now 😂 and drug addict jordan isn't relevant ant would destroy him

[@kingaqua908]

​​@@xenon157 Nobody is watching the league now Mr. Short bus so thanks for proving our point even further. Your King leads the era of the worst viewership and ratings in NBA history while Jordan led the league to the best ratings and viewership in NBA history. And Jordan is very relevant that's why every player brings him up and compares themselves to him because he is the standard including your fraud goat in LeBron. Didn't ANT get locked down by the Mavs last playoffs? Lol MJ would never let that happen 😂😂

[@brokenclock77]

Soft overpaid divas trotting up the floor hoisting threes and bitching at the refs the one time in twenty they get called for traveling

[@charliep123]

0:45 or 4, you know not much about the NBA but are just curious and love this channel and will watch almost anything.

[@samuraitabernac3050]

Or 5, you are on the toilet

[@javianjohnson8746]

At first I hated the idea of the In-Season Tournament/NBA Cup, but it has definitely fully grown onto me. Specifically the knockout round leading up to the semifinal games are really intriguing and definitely ups the competitiveness of regular season games in November/December. Plus, the Play-in Tournament is also another great addition to the league. But everything else, yea, I agree. Big problems, especially that All star game