Wednesday, December 27, 2017

The NBA's crybaby problem


The Golden State Warriors are a great basketball team, but they---and the league---have a crybaby problem that makes watching their games increasingly a mixed pleasure. 

Almost every NBA player is used to being a star in high school and college before the NBA, which means that the league is full of prima donnas. (You called a foul on me?) Seems like every foul call gets an outraged reaction from the player who commits the foul, which is almost always verified by instant replay.

Coach Steve Kerr has recognized the problem ("It's absolutely too much") and even admitted last week that a team meeting on the issue would be "a good idea." Did he hold that meeting?

How do you tell a bunch of highly-paid prima donnas---the average NBA salary is over six million dollars!---to quit whining at the referees after every fucking call? I suspect he didn't really try.

By the way, kissing your boss's ass is a bad look for Stephen Curry, Draymond Green, and Kevin Durant, e.g. Vice President Pence.

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