NBA after Jordan-Bulls Dynasty

rider

It's absolutely fair to comment NBA is less popular after the retirement of Air Jordan. There's no more team which can deeply attract the fans' heart... At the beginning, I think the Kings is the one: energetic, full of potential... If not, perhaps the Raptors is. However, the Kings keeps disapponting the fans. Besides, Webber & Divac left too... While the Raptors is suck, especially Carter (it's good to kick him away)!
During the 80s and 90s, there're so many great stars, really great stars: Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman, "Magic" Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Larry Bird, Karl Malone & Clyde "The Glide" Drexler... Of course, among them, the greatest one's absolutely Michael Jordan; whether you like him or not! Does everyone remember one of the most classical NBA games in Play-Off Final 1991:  Jordan vs. Johnson? Does everyone still remember the Deam Team, the real dream team, in Barcelonia 1992? There's no more now...

calcal

do u have the clip of jordan that he did the lay-up from the bounder line or the 2-point-fault-line?

crap

Originally posted by rider at 2005-3-21 11:49 AM:
It's absolutely fair to comment NBA is less popular after the retirement of Air Jordan. There's no more team which can deeply attract the fans' heart... At the beginning, I think the Kings is the one: energetic, full of potential... If not, perhaps the Raptors is. However, the Kings keeps disapponting the fans. Besides, Webber & Divac left too... While the Raptors is suck, especially Carter (it's good to kick him away)!

haha, just for this statement, many bro.s are goin' to get mad.............

anyway, i dun think NBA's really that 'unpopular' now... well.. maybe there's not a TEAM as attractive as the Bulls, well... actually LAL(with shaq) and the Suns(with Nash) are teams that attractive enough IMO...

besides, although there might not be great teams, there are still lots of exciting players that bring ppl to watch NBA....
well.. i can't write down all their names coz that may take 5 minutes....
but look at VC, AI, James, etc etc etc...
they are just symbols of the 'NBA business'.....

if u wanna mean the popularity of NBA over the world... there are 12 billions more potential cus---ers today.........

i could still see a Dream Team if those guys didn't 淆底 last year.....

rider

Originally posted by crap at 2005-3-21 12:51 PM:
... i could still see a Dream Team if those guys didn't 淆底 last year.....

There's nothing to the players except they're not the best in USA (except Ducan) & they didn't concentrate in the game. When the other nations sent their best players, USA could only send 2nd class players; of course, they lost!

crap

Originally posted by rider at 2005-3-21 12:56 PM:

There's nothing to the players except they're not the best in USA (except Ducan) & they didn't concentrate in the game. When the other nations sent their best players, USA could only send 2n ...

no ar, it wasn't US's idea to send those 2nd class players to Olympic......
it's because they were afraid of terrorists...................

by the way.... do u mean even James and AI are not best in USA?

rider

[ Last edited by rider on 2005-3-21 at 01:22 PM ]

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catbert

Originally posted by crap at 2005-3-21 01:07 PM:

by the way.... do u mean even James and AI are  ...

I am not sure what rider thinks but I think James and AI are good players, but that's just not enough.  I do think there's a difference if they had Jason Kidd, Kobe Bryant, Tracy McGrady, Kevin Garnett and Shaq on the roster.   Just imagine what it would be like with a starting line-up of Kidd, McGrady, Garnett, Duncan and O'Neal ...

brightlee

I could tell you one of the reasons, BIG contracts!

If you think about (contracts) in 80s... the contracts were still reasonsable.
Look at the contracts for so many players?
They are crazy
this will help the kids not willing to be a great players...

It's truth, example, Penny

also, in nowadays, the players don't believe the basic level of basketball, shooting skills

except Ray Allen and Michael Redd, can you tell me who is a good shooter in American?!
that's why US was losing in Olympics, Showoff too much...

soemtimes, if you are too confident/ not humble.. sorry, your skills won't be improved...
see Shaq? what's he's doing for keeping fit this year?
that's great he lost the ring last year!
that defect, and also it is good for him to be traded to Heats
He's concerntating to play basketball now!!!