i will concede that i think the NBA has lost a lot of flair in recent years
it's become a fashionable, homogenized product more than ever, and everything that was ever gritty about it (in the good sense, not the bad shit) has been replaced by sterile clean cut hyper self aware gross superstardom. maybe i'm just getting old and cynical but i feel like it's peaking rn.
it's undeniable that defense is basically almost non existent anymore these days save for a few select teams. competitiveness has been significantly reduced for what makes the better part of the year. durant's move to the warriors, teams sitting their entire leading roster out in games that are to decide 1st conference standing, heated trash talk gets you a technical. that shit ain't cool and i think it's a shame
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