It seems you can count the "good guys" in the NBA on one hand. How come??
2007-01-31 03:44:19 · 6 answers · asked by Shamus 1 in Sports ➔ Basketball
I think a big part of that is the media, which tends to focus on the negatives while ignoring any the "good guys" you mention. They get a lot more mileage out of a story like the Pistons-Pacers brawl or Kobe Bryant's alleged rape than they do out of Steve Smith giving $2.5 million to Michigan State, or players from other parts of the world raising money for their homeland.
Don't get me wrong - there are a lot of thugs and self-centered jerks in the NBA. However, there are a lot of good people in the league, but their stories apparently just don't get people too excited.
2007-01-31 04:00:25 · answer #1 · answered by Craig S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sports media loves bad guys. Tim Duncan's got three championships and he'll be forgotten ten minutes after he retires because he's not a quote machine. Shaq and Kobe give each other the evil eye during warmups and it's all over Sportscenter. Look at all the attention lavished on the walking one-trick pony that was Dennis Rodman.
2007-01-31 19:30:38 · answer #2 · answered by Tut Uncommon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's the opposite. A few key players are enough to taint the image - Stephen Jackson + Ron Artest + Kobe + Rasheed Wallace (for his on-court conduct). And there are still reverberations from Sprewell's choking incident and off-court court dramas. It's a showbiz-based enigma. There are a lot of people who hype the negative stuff, no matter how small. Couldn't Jordan be excused for his gambling? He could afford it, and it took place in "legal" places. No one praises Shaq for being a deputy. No one remembers Dikembe Mutombo for his continental charity work. :)
2007-01-31 07:19:30 · answer #3 · answered by thomas 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well if you take a look at what is goin on in the league then you will see why they have such a bad image anyway there are too many thugs running around in the nba which is what is destroying the image of the league
2007-01-31 04:36:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
One word. Streetball. Things like AND 1 and the no blood no foul effect that gets molded into the younger generation, doesn't set a soothing image for an outsider. I really don't see the players from overseas getting into that. You take an Iverson, or a Marbury and you compare them to a Dirk, Radmanovic, or even Stojakovic...I really don't see the "flash" or the "hollywood hip hop" in those guys like you can see in the American players. I think that's got alot to do with it.
2007-01-31 04:14:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They've earned their bad rep by acting like spoiled, ungrateful children.
2007-01-31 03:58:06 · answer #6 · answered by Pretending To Work 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋