The media meta surrounding the NBA is very negative. Old players hating on new players, new players hating on old players. Media hating on everyone, all with flimsy arguments and sometimes with no argument at all. It's unbearable, and the negativity is unlike any other major American sport.
So it almost doesn't matter what they're talking about it, someone has a lot of negativity about everything.
Orgs like ESPN, and others seem to just feed it as if they don't know what else to do. Draymond Green, a player with some serious behavioral issues and numerous suspensions (and he should have more than that), was made a guest commentator last playoff season ... a completely inexplicable choice, but apparently everyone was ok with it.
I don't know why, but with the NBA everyone involved seems to "WANT" this.
Content (Supply) keeps growing but Eyeballs (Demand) is fixed by the number of people and time available.
This is an unstable State in an Attention based Economic system that doesnt acknowledge the massively growing difference between those 2 curves.
We have seen this in Cash based Economic systems where cash is printed faster than products entering the market. People in the market spent centuries attributing the consequences to everything other excessive money printing cause it was non obvious to them that money supply was increasing too fast. This is why central banks emerged.
Same story here. People will talk about everything other than Supply massively overshooting demand because there is no Central Attention Bank monitoring the divergence. So we just get huge amount of cannabilism and everyone shocked and suprised by it.
he is a character :) funny and charismatic, good on TV and generally in media and will likely have a better broadcasting/media career than his bball playing career. randy moss was similar as a player and is now on TV all the time. the way they were both playing doesn’t represent either off the court…
Personally, I'd rather watch the women. Their play relates more to my (and I think most fans) personal experience with the game of basketball.
The men's professional play looks totally foreign to the game the average fan has played. A lot of this has to do with the fact that most ordinary players can't begin to hit 35% from 3 point range.
for some reason this is always a topic for NBA and no other professional sport…