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IlIlIlIlIl 3 points ago +3 / -0

Finals winner has been a top 2 conference seed almost every season in 30 years. Best of 7 kills upsets. The refs were caught gambling and rigging games. The soft cap, big TV markets, buyouts/ring chasing vets make certain teams never get the chance to land a superstar...unless they draft one. They can offer a supermax to a drafted player to keep him with the highest offer, but that falls apart because players will go to a big market and make up more than the contract deficit in tv deals and other opportunities (see Anthony Davis).

It’s a horribly broken system. The older podcasters and HoF players on broadcast draw up everything in the fall and that’s what happens. It’s completely predictable. Guys like Charles Barkley just check out for 6 months and get paid to goof off and say whatever. We haven’t even covered all of the issues with the rules. Fuck the “five out”.

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IlIlIlIlIl 1 point ago +1 / -0

Yeah, you’re right. I’ll try to elaborate that point, but I admit it’s a weak argument.

I think that players and teams in basketball don’t have extended hot or cold streaks like other sports. This is totally an opinion piece that baseball good pitching and good hitting streaks can swing a series. Hockey sometimes has that with goalies who can make a big impact on the outcomes. Since the NBA is 5 on 5, the playoffs tend toward the better team winning. Hockey and Baseball have more cases of teams that click or get hot at the right time.

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trauncher 8 points ago +8 / -0

Never watch another second of NBA basketball. EVER.

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wumao 4 points ago +4 / -0

That's not enough. If you pay for any packages (including Disney+), you're still paying ESPN and subsequently NBA.

You must cancel your subscriptions to these services and send them an email much like what we are doing with Reddit right now.

Besides, just watch UFC. Easy to stream without paying a subscription service and the Fight Boss is as entertaining as Trump (and they're very good friends). Fighters are less cunty too. Plus you get to see based Colby Covington beat on soyboys.

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trauncher 1 point ago +1 / -0

I don't pay for ANY packages. Cable TV can suck my ass.

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dubler6 6 points ago +6 / -0

Messages will be sewn on in Chinese child slave labor camps.

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z89101 5 points ago +5 / -0

NBA is CCP ShillHoe

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Shwoogin 5 points ago +5 / -0

And the "approved" list is entirely leftist. WEIRD.

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rossagesausage 5 points ago +5 / -0

Well.....bye.

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Reborned20 4 points ago +4 / -0

These were sold to China, yes? So power by virtue signaling must commence.

Would your company hire the NBA players that can't stand selling out the country to the Communists?

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DoofusRufus 3 points ago +3 / -0

It's like they're in a race with the NFL to see who can fail first.

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jnic815 2 points ago +2 / -0

These professional sports leagues are so far out of touch with reality it’s mind-blowing. The core fan base for almost all professional sports is red blooded, blue collar, Americans. I cannot understand why they continue trying to shove bullshit down the throat of their dwindling fan base. The snowflakes are not turning on ESPN! Guess what they say is true.... Get woke, Go broke.

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magnokor 2 points ago +2 / -0

I Love China

Communism works, if it didn't work it wasn't real communism

I get paid $30million and I am a victim of slavery and systemic racism and no opportunities

I Love China More Than That Player Who Loves China

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Below is a message they will be allowed to have. The WNBA players could also wear it proudly:

I Am A Man

What country is the NBA in?

Sí Se Puede (Yes We Can)

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The list of the approved suggested social messages, per the source, for the back of the NBA jerseys: Black Lives Matter; Say Their Names; Vote; I Can’t Breathe; Justice; Peace; Equality; Freedom; Enough; Power to the People; Justice Now; Say Her Name; Sí Se Puede (Yes We Can); Liberation; See Us; Hear Us; Respect Us; Love Us; Listen; Listen to Us; Stand Up; Ally; Anti-Racist; I Am A Man; Speak Up; How Many More; Group Economics; Education Reform; and Mentor.

Missing from that list: Free Hong Kong.

Right now, slaves in Asia are very busy, working their 12-hour days and 6 days a week, for around $50 a month, so these crybabies can push for their South African idea, maybe Zimbabwean idea, of black communism.

Will boycott the fanless farce of a league.

Hopefully all police boycott the disease-infested Disney arena as all the players hate them.

Any player that plays on a court painted for the communist BLM is evil.

Most are just stupid, but by going along either for the money or just because they are scared they are part of it.

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RecoveringNPC 2 points ago +2 / -0

"He hate me"

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HiGloss 2 points ago +2 / -0

Fun can be had with "I am a man"

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redditadminssuckit 2 points ago +4 / -2

If YOU support or watch the NBA, you're part of the problem.