Saturday, May 9, 2009

Basketball needs a professional league, not the NBA


Just finished watching the Denver Nuggets / Dallas Mavericks game, yet another NBA game decided by the officials not the players on the floor. I didn't watch a single NBA game this regular season, and since the playoffs seem to have already been decided, I don't see much sense in wasting my time watching them either.
Football has the NFL, baseball has MLB, basketball is a beautiful game, and it deserves a legit professional league, not a business modeled after the WWF, ran by the likes of David Stern (does that man have any integrity?), games decided by the officials, star-treatment that gives players like Kobe a trip to the foul line if they get touched, and no penalty for them if they go for a another players' neck. College ball is great, and the Final Four is much more professional that the NBA playoffs, but these players deserve to play in, and fans deserve to watch, a league with integrity.