re: The NBA: Is it Dying?

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afraid within 2 years we'll have 2-4 teams that are relevant and the gap between them and the "have nots" will be enormous

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That certainly didn't stop the popularity of the NBA in the 80s.

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So, the NBA's popularity rises and falls with the images of its star players to a greater degree than the NFL does. So this comparison to the NFL, is really irrelevant. It may prove some type of moral point, but it doesn't disprove the notion that the image of the players is one of the NBA's problem.

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Good points. But to say one league is full of thugs and another isn't is crazy. The players come from the same schools, same cities, same hoods. Most cases hang with each other. Going to one league don't make you a "thug". You don't find many cases of violence against people when you look at NBA arrests. If the NBA is full of thugs, the NFL is really thugged out if people are talkin about "thug" as in terms of violence and getting arrrested, smoking weed,etc.

On a side note, ANOTHER NFL player, Laurence Maroney just got arrested on weapons charges in STL for riding dirty with 3 of his homies. Like I said these players come from the same areas, hoods, etc. Just because you go to the NBA don't make you a thug. There's teams in the NBA that have players that have never been in the news for arrests or any kind of trouble, but the league gets labeled full of thugs. But we all know the reason why.

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It took seven pages before you donned your Lebron armor and jumped in here to defend him??? You're getting slow.

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1. It took you no time, in your original post in fact, to start crying about Lebron, so think about that before you make your usual post about me.

2. As usual, you just deflect my post to rant on how I'm defending Lebron, while completely ignoring the point I made in my post, which is clearly a good point.