How can people watch basketball anymore?

Lebrun James had to stop taking hgh. His hairline f-cked up from the hgh. He went from 1 hair band to like 88.

I have wondered the same thing. Sign a 500 pound sumo wrestler. Teach him to stand on skates. Put pads on him and stuff him in the net. In women's hockey in the Canadian University system there have been some big goalies.Seemed to work.

...and a layup wrote:

I watched about 5 minutes of the game. Got sick of watching Cleveland clear out the lane to let Lebron push a defender back under the net and make a layup. Oh, that's so exciting!

So, you must've loved watching Charles Barkley and Adrian Dantley back in the day?

LucasTanner wrote:

xcvxcvxv wrote:

I would say that all those AAU, etc leagues actually make the top players less skilled, not more. And it shows. The resson that no one in the NBA today csn do the kinds of things that Pete Maravich (just for example) could do with a badketball is they dont have the opportunnities to spend several hours a day by themselves in a gym, playground, their backyard or park honing those skills.

You haven't watched an NBA game since the 80s. Your comments are garbage with no basis in objective reality. Steph Curry's ball handling and shooting ability is easily the equal of Maravich's. There were simply no players combining the size and shooting and ball handling skill of Durant or Lebron back in the 60s, 70s, 80s, or even 90s. The Warriors are the best outside shooting team of all time, by a wide margin, and would lay utter waste to Pistol Pete and Lou Hudson, neither of whom could play defense (unlike Durant, Iguadola and Draymond) or accommodate a team concept on offense to save their life. Maravich was widely hated by his teammates and considered a ball hogging brat until the latter part of his career.

Crenny Crenshaw wrote:

3 steps? wrote:

The sport is kind of lame now that players are allowed to pick up the ball and run with it.

Absolutely 100% true. How can I get excited about LeBron's game and get into how he compares to other all-time greats when he's allowed to run around out there with the ball like he's some 4th grader in a Saturday Morning League? The requirements for dribbling are closer to rugby: dribble the ball 1x for every 15 feet you run with it tucked under your arm. LeBron looks like he's running the option at OU circa 1986. Run with the ball, fake pitching it, keep it and run to the goal. It's ridiculous. And it's the whole league. Except for the goons. They whistle them for traveling before they get to the scorer's table.

This might be the dumbest statement posted to LetsRant.com in months.

Former phenom wrote:

Lebrun James had to stop taking hgh. His hairline f-cked up from the hgh. He went from 1 hair band to like 88.

"hair band"? Do you mean headband? He wears a headband less often now than he did when he was 17 or 25.

Yep, drugs is the only explanation why a 32 year old man might have thinning hair. Especially a man who looked 25 when he was 17.

I've see hgh suggested as a cure for baldness, that it helps grow hair.

LeBron at 17:

So true. I'm an old dude and have been watching the NBA since the late 60s. Pistol Pete was awesome, but Steph and Kyrie are as good ballhandlers than anyone who has ever played. Durant was spending hours on shooting drills every day since a child (he famously didn't play AAU), is a better shooter than just about anyone ever, and is 7 foot tall guard. LeBron is bigger than Wes Unseld and faster than Mo Cheeks and is a point guard.

Quote from Steve Kerr:

“They’re all right. They would all kill us. The game gets worse as time goes on. Players are less talented than they used to be. The guys in the 50s would’ve destroyed everybody. It’s weird how human evolution goes in reverse in sports. Players get weaker, smaller, less skilled. I don’t know. I can’t explain it.”