It's boring.
Why?
I can tell you exactly why.
Because there's no drama.
The big story this year was Boston acquiring KG and Ray. That was real cool and they were fun to watch for like... three games. Now they can't even beat the Wizards.
After the Celtics, the biggest story was the resurrection of the Lakers. Now Bynum is out for two months and they can barely beat the Sonics.
The league's most intriguing player, Gilbert Arenas, is out for the majority of a second straight season. His blog is about how he sponsors video game teams and is starting a new cartoon. Wake me up if I'm having a bad dream.
Yao and McGrady are worse than ever, the Spurs are more boring than ever, the Pistons are probably the best team in the league but no one gives a sh*t, Durant is keeping the Seattle fans watching, only to disappoint them by either (a) when the team moves to OK City or (b) when he signs with another team after his rookie contract is up.
The league is so boring that Kobe doesn't even do his thing anymore. He's finally realized that his teammates have to score to win games and that's just... boring. The Lakers games went from losses where Kobe dropped 55 on a regular basis to wins where Kobe scores 23 and every other player on the team has between eight and 14 points. *Applause, Yawn*
The Suns, who I consider the mostest funnest team to watch, are not fun to watch for me anymore. After a third year of the same thing, they just aren't interesting anymore. The games are basically Nash gets 15 assists, Amare comes through with two monster dunks and... that's it. Although I give Grant Hill credit for providing a nasty highlight earlier this year.
He followed that up with another highlight, lol, courtesy of Trevor Ariza:
The stories that have kept me watching this year have been:
1. Portland Trailblazers
2. Boston Celtics
3. Bynum/Lakers
4. Rudy Gay dunking on people
Here's what I want from the NBA:
1. The Knicks are actually one of the stories that should be but is fading fast. Their team is full of highlight reels (Jamal, Nate Rob, Steph, even David Lee is good for a couple), they have a shitload of talent, a coach who seemingly has an enormous amount of passion and love for the team and game, yet they still suck. Somehow, some way, NBA get these guys into the playoffs. Maybe that means a trade. Maybe it doesn't. Okay, it definitely does. Here's what you do: Package Steph and Randolph to the Lakers for D. Fisher and Chris Mihm. Then you send Mihm and Isiah to Dallas for Diop. Make Nate Rob the player/coach (he can't be worse than Isiah). Now you're good to go in the East.
2. Let Ron Artest Fight: How the hell has Ron Artest fallen off the NBA map? This is a disgrace. I think the problem is that he's so scared to get banned for a season the next time he gets T'd up that he doesn't even play hard anymore. Stern, just let him do his thing. Give him a minimum/maximum suspension of ONE game every time he gets ejected. That will solve it.
3. Swap the Clippers with any D-League team: This would make for a great story. See if the Clips can survive in the NBDL. Who cares how the D-League team does in the NBA, the story would be seeing if the Clips can win in the minors.
4. D. Wade for Rashard Lewis/Jameer Nelson: This will never happen but I'm getting sick of watching Wade waste away on the "worst team with a great player" that I've ever seen. How sick would Wade/Howard be? Just think about Penny and Shaq. With more dunks on more heads.
5. And finally, promote Rod Benson to the NBA. This would make the entire NBA season easily.
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