Loved how Wilson was helping to push the city/county powers to work to bring back an NBA franchise to Seattle.
I was a YUGE Sonics fan back in the day. Through the weird echo of the NBA in the Kingdome, to the raucous great days of Payton/Kemp @ Key Arena (and I think we had to truck down to Tacoma one season even. Man, that sucked) I loved my Sonics.
So I was stoked about having Wilson and other local sports legends helping out with the "Bring back our Sonics" cause.
And then I watched an NBA game for the first time in about five years.
It was horrible! No defense. No low-post players of any skill. It was all just run and pop garbage. And the refs called fouls for every little nothing of a bump. Seems guys could look at someone cross-eyed and the whistle would blow. I can't believe people pay $$$ to watch that crap. A far cry from the NBA basketball of the 80's and 90's that I knew and loved.
Am I just being a grumpy guy now in his 40's who can't stand this new style of NBA ball? It's a bunch of playground wimps throwing up on three-pointer after another over and over again in between whistles for breathing wrong. It was like those playground games with the fat guy screaming into the microphone that toured the country a while back. (Maybe they still do?) A more "hood" version of the Harlem Globetrotters. ("Hood" as in playground crap ball but without the fear of violence.)
Seems that's what the NBA has become.
Garbage. :177692:
I was a YUGE Sonics fan back in the day. Through the weird echo of the NBA in the Kingdome, to the raucous great days of Payton/Kemp @ Key Arena (and I think we had to truck down to Tacoma one season even. Man, that sucked) I loved my Sonics.
So I was stoked about having Wilson and other local sports legends helping out with the "Bring back our Sonics" cause.
And then I watched an NBA game for the first time in about five years.
It was horrible! No defense. No low-post players of any skill. It was all just run and pop garbage. And the refs called fouls for every little nothing of a bump. Seems guys could look at someone cross-eyed and the whistle would blow. I can't believe people pay $$$ to watch that crap. A far cry from the NBA basketball of the 80's and 90's that I knew and loved.
Am I just being a grumpy guy now in his 40's who can't stand this new style of NBA ball? It's a bunch of playground wimps throwing up on three-pointer after another over and over again in between whistles for breathing wrong. It was like those playground games with the fat guy screaming into the microphone that toured the country a while back. (Maybe they still do?) A more "hood" version of the Harlem Globetrotters. ("Hood" as in playground crap ball but without the fear of violence.)
Seems that's what the NBA has become.
Garbage. :177692: