Most NBA "stars" are a bunch of narsissistic self-loving princess divas

We'll see how much the inmates run the asylum after the locket next summer and the new CBA. The dynamic between owners and players will probably change quite a bit. NBA players are simply taking all the rope they are given, which is what you'd expect from human beings.

 

Though I haven't started a dramatic thread about it, I heartily agree with most of what you said.

Hooray for Duncan and Yao.

 

Dude, you forgot Nash!

 

The NFL reigns supreme, yet their players have very little power. That's not a coincidence. The more power players have, the more the game suffers because of it.

 

How come all the guys you listed as "selfish" are black?

 

Conclusion: Black people are selfish?

 

what about kevin durant dude?

 

This is what happens when you let the slaves run the show.

signed
Jesse Jackson

 

Gotta be kidding.

 

They're "divas," as you put it, only because people give into them and give them the most attention.


You mention how Yao and Duncan should be given more credit, but when's the last time you or anyone made a thread "ranting" about how great/humble they are?

 

sounds like most people i know. especially at the office.

 

In the entire world, there are maybe 8-10 people who are capable of playing basketball at the elite NBA superstar level. There are 30+ teams. The fact that these guys get away with so much is just the result of supply and demand. Not enough of these superstars to go around, so the teams will bend over backwards and put up their their attitudes. Just for example, Wall Street Journal estimated earlier this month that Lebron James' "true" dollar value to a team is in the $50 million dollar range, thus he is making way more money for the Heat than they are paying him.

If suddenly there were a lot more players capable of playing at the Kobe/Lebron/Wade level, guess what would happen? Salaries would go wayyy down and suddenly teams would have all the leverage.

I guess my point is that we can blame the players, but the reality is that teams want them bad enough to kiss up to them to get an advantage in the race to get them. This idea that this diva behavior is just from this era of players ignores the owners that created and enabled the behavior.

 

sounds like most people i know. especially at the office.

 

Yes because we all know that NBA players are the ONLY rich and powerful people who are selfish

 

The NBA painted itself into this predicament when it started to market the individual superstar instead of team play.

Instead of commercials about the beauty of a pick and roll, a back door cut, and moving without the ball, we get commercials about a superstar doing a dunk or throwing chalk up in the air.

Even though they're not apples to apples, the NBA should look into how the NFL markets itself. (I fully understand that there are more players in the NFL therefore more stars to promote.)

I hope the new CBA cuts out the role players making near superstar money, IMO those type of players making that kind of money are crippling teams' payroll. Superstars are superstars and they will continue to get top dollar, because (contrary to my stance earlier) the NBA can't make big money without the superstars.

 

And didnt even mention the easily pointed out "thug" element. Will give credit to the OP for judging specific general behaviors and attitudes, instead of pointing how "gangster" players are.

With more extended coverage around the clock, more sports networks, more markets, more media, more fan sites like Clutchfans, more devices to tune into it, it just increases the player's urge to want to make scenes and create buzz, and increases likelihood of viewers hearing about it.

Its not all just about league control of players. How much more "NBA Cares" campaigns and players ordered to wear SUITS, and players and coaches getting fined for inappropriateness can there be?

 

NFL players are probably on general are probably the dumbest athletes as well. The players are the product of course they should get all the power.

 

In the Babe Ruth days, the players AND sportwriters would travel and get drunk together. Babe Ruth could stumble in and out the w**** house, wake up the next day, wave hi to the mail man and go do some radio promo ads for products and not see anything about it in the news. When you're the man, you get away with more. An ex-President got a blow job from a female intern on office hours. The JFK files reveal more and more each passing year...

Thing is, when EVERYBODY'S well off making money, the cries are there but arent as severe. When everybody's struggling and poor, understandably the cries about injustices are louder. NOT saying its okay to be an entitled ass, just that its been going on.

But I agree that whatever craft you're in, try to make like your craft actually matters. Against what most guys think, I dont like that about women's sports either. Soon as Anna Kournikova and Williams Sisters get a dose of the celebrity life, sports career suffer