Word: nba
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...confess up front that I count myself among the latter. I'm constantly conflicted about my on-again, off-again relationship with the NBA, but more often than not I've come back to the game that has always succeeded in making me miserable...
...eagerly tuned in again, just happy that some familiar faces in new uniforms were back on the hardwood. So happy that we'll let Barkley get away with his latest potty-mouth antics. So happy that we'll drool over the next Atlanta-New Jersey brawl as the NBA spins it to be the new Eastern Conference rivalry...
Like my own Knicks malaise, watching the NBA is an extended exercise in how long one's tolerance will hold out before snapping, an exercise everywhere shot through with impatience and bitterness. And as the league continues to look more and more like daytime drama, the expectations it has for its fans approach indolence and a wit slower than a Buck Williams drive...
What other conclusion can we draw from attempts to palliate our collective indignation with $10 nosebleed seats, or the persistent dumbness of Ahmad Rashad, Bill Walton and the rest of NBC's cozy broadcast ensemble? Being an NBA fan implies malleability in the hands of the corporate machine. Failing that, masochism...
...very recent commercial success of the Olympic games, signals another blow to the integrity of athletics and amateur athletics in particular. The Olympics have been selling out for years: the last decade has seen the steady introduction of professional athletes, from USA Basketball's "Dream Team" of NBA players to the world's top-ranked tennis players, competing in the Games...