Now that football season is over, the NHL seems poised to commit ritual suicide and baseball once again threatens to begin its long and tedious season, it's time to pick on basketball.
I've been saying it for years. NBA basketball, played at a glacial pace punctuated occasionally by superhuman egomaniacs soaring above the rim while four guys stand on the perimeter waiting for a pass...just sucks.
To see the sport as it was designed, you need to watch the cohesive teamwork of international play on display at the Olympics or the sweat that women's teams require to work the ball for an open shot -- everyone moving without the ball, hustle on both sides of the court.
By contrast, every NBA game follows the same predictable script. Individual over team. Especially down the stretch, when everyone clears out so the superstar can strike his best Jordonesque pose. Bleh.
Even the NY Times Magazine gets it. Do you?
Sunday, February 13, 2005
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