{"id":44641,"date":"2017-05-09T17:05:04","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T21:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44641"},"modified":"2020-08-01T17:05:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T21:05:14","slug":"nba-national-bitches-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44641","title":{"rendered":"NBA: National Bitches Association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0Pnl1ulaG5k?controls=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Prior to reading this, I implore my six readers to press play and listen to the theme of when the NBA was truly golden, and basketball was a respectable sport rife with athletes playing against other athletes in the game of basketball, and news was limited to solely basketball-related stories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">This is a topic that\u2019s been on my head for quite some time, but never really chose to run with it, because quite frankly the world is full of way more interesting stories, or things that I\u2019d rather write about, like overturned tractor trailers, or conspiracy theories about MARTA.\u00a0 But then I saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/2017\/05\/09\/ray-allen-boston-celtics-reunion-garnett-pierce-rondo\/101462518\/\">this article<\/a> about Ray Allen being a bitch because all his former Celtics teammates had a championship team reunion and didn\u2019t invite him, because they are all bitches as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">This story follows a week that also saw DeMar DeRozan of the Toronto Raptors <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/news\/demar-derozan-is-fully-aware-lebron-made-all-the-difference-in-raptors-cavs-series\/\">whining about<\/a> how his team would have advanced in the playoffs if <em>they<\/em> had LeBron James; like a sore loser, or, like a bitch.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">And speaking of LeBron James, earlier in the season, he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/cavs\/index.ssf\/2017\/04\/lebron_james_apologized_to_tri.html\">had an altercation <em>with a teammate<\/em><\/a>, but instead of going Old Testament on him and kicking his ass in the locker room or throwing him under the bus to the media, instead he, the guy who brought glory back to Cleveland, won numerous championships and has nothing left to prove, assumes blame, takes responsibility for the altercation and apologizes to the jobber teammate, the fans and the organization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Like a bitch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">There\u2019s no way to sugar coat it, and honestly I don\u2019t know why anyone would want to.\u00a0 The NBA is full of bitches, plain and simple.\u00a0 Basketball takes a backseat every night to the bitchy activities that the bitches in the league bitch over, like passive-aggressive snipes on Twitter, shade being thrown in post-game press conferences, and beat writers selectively quoting player remarks to create the juiciest, most tantalizing drama as possible.\u00a0 All bitch activities, catered to appeal to bitches, all while in between it all, they bounce a ball on hardwood floors and miss free throws left and right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Back in the day, when NBA stood for the National <em>Basketball<\/em> Association, if Luc Longley stepped out of line, Michael Jordan wouldn\u2019t just beat the shit out of him in the locker room, within a week his ass would have been shipped off to the Vancouver Grizzlies.\u00a0 Magic Johnson wouldn\u2019t be caught dead saying that the Lakers would\u2019ve beaten the Celtics if <em>they<\/em> had Larry Bird, no, Magic would basically say that Bird was lucky that his pasty white ass was being carried by Kevin McHale and Robert Parrish, that he was lucky this time, and that he\u2019ll get even later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">And Charles Barkley and Patrick Ewing never have to worry about not being invited to any reunion parties, because neither of them won a championship, which is a story in itself, but also on account of the fact that they played in a league without bitches for them to have steam rolled, and thus became unintentional bitches by virtue of losing all the time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">The fact is, the state of the NBA today is a sad state of affairs that really loves the drama exhibited by the trainloads of sociopathic narcissistic personalities that occupy the league, and basketball is a secondary affair that the players play in between their Twitter feuds and their personal brand curating.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Long gone are the days where players aside from Draymon Green show any iota of toughness, and 90% of the conflicts in the league are all talk and no action on the court.\u00a0 This isn\u2019t to say that there aren\u2019t handfuls of players here and there that <em>aren\u2019t<\/em> bitches, but if there was ever a precise point in history where the NBA went from a basketball association to a bitches association, it\u2019s probably the day Tim Duncan retired.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior to reading this, I implore my six readers to press play and listen to the theme of when the NBA was truly golden, and basketball was a respectable sport rife with athletes playing against other athletes in the game of basketball, and news was limited to solely basketball-related stories. 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