You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy.
The concept of too many games in the NBA.
The NBA season is 82 games long. Wow. 82 games. What is that? like 5 months? Can you imagine working for 5 months? The audacity of someone asking you to work less than 1 hour a day a few days a week for less than half the year.
The nerve!
NBA players are raising a minor stink that the season is too long and should be shortened.
The players, who make $100,000 dollars a night, say the long season.
All that bouncing of balls and jumping up and down for a fraction of 48 minutes, is simply too much wear and tear on their bodies.
UNION! Sally Fields will shout!
Oh the humanity!
I wonder if the United Federation of Coal Miners has endorsed the NBA players union on this one. Unions are a brotherhood, right?
I mean $100,000 for playing a game. $100,000 for playing maybe 24 minutes of a 48 minute game. $100,000 for running up the court, rebounding, taking a shot, running back down the court.
TIME OUT.
REST ON THE BENCH.
Wooh. That is unfair, don’t you think?
The hardship of the NBA versus Coal Mining.
Let’s see.
In the NBA you drive your Bentley to the work site.
In the Coal Business your brother in law dropped you off on his way to the bus depot.
In the NBA you sit in a golden whirlpool pampered by dieticians and trainers.
In the Coal industry, you carry a lunch pail and take an elevator into the bowels of the darkest recesses of the Earth.
In the NBA you wear headphones to prepare, you file the nails on your shooting hand, you text your stock broker to sell shares of babydaddy.com.
In the Mining business, you inhale your last gulp of real air before you descend into the blackness where the sun will never and has never been. You sink into the oblivion where your skin is whiter than angel dandruff from lack of Vitamin D. You breathe air that is filtered with soot and coal dust and you call that a good day.
In The NBA, games last 48 minutes. Maybe you play half that. You make a $100,000.
While under the Earth, you pray a lot. You spend your nocturnal work day underground for 8 hours digging coal praying that the mine exit is still there when the whistle blows. You make about $20.00 an hour.
I bet the Coal Workers of America would like shorter shifts and more escape hatches too.
NBA players are pampered, spoiled, clearly unaware that they are overpaid for a job that is hardly relevant.
Personally I could do with half as many NBA games.
41 games would be fine.
In fact, play 25 games and then start the playoffs.
In the NBA less is more. In fact less is preferable. Outside a few superstars like Lebron and Kobe; I don’t care. I use to be an NBA fan. But somewhere along the way, the players became more greedy and less interesting. When Michael, Larry and Magic left, so did my affinity for the sport.
Now these pampered, overpaid players want to work less for more.
They have the wallets of Rockefeller, but the brain capacity of Cheech and Chong.
Don’t they realize that less games equals less revenue for their owners. Less revenue for owners will ultimately lead to less money for them.
Business is business fellas.
I will say that 82 games is way too many games. It is hard to watch, it’s laborious to sit through. They are boring, pedestrian, ugly like the wall paper in your grandmother’s kitchen.
In late February who wants to see Sacramento against Phoenix. Who cares about Minnesota Vs Atlanta.
These aren’t cities I would even want my flight to diverted to in case of an Ebola scare, no less watch NBA.
This issue took on steam recently when the King spoke.
When LeBron James talks, people listen.
“It’s not he minutes, its the games. The minutes doesn’t mean anything. We can play 50-minute games if we had to. It’s just the games. We all as players think it’s too many games. in our season, 82 games is a lot. But its not the minutes.”
It’s all about wear and tear on the body.
S.T.FU.! Please!
Michael Jordan, arguably the greatest player ever says there is no need to shorten the games. As far as shortening the season? “Players need to realize if you shorten the season, that’s less revenue for everyone.”
Shorten the season and you may have to buy those big gaudy gold chains at K mart, fellas.
On ESPN the analysts poked at the suggestion like an old man with a cane pokes at a dead rat on the sidewalk.
“We have these young guys today who are so pampered I think this is why we see more injuries today because they are not prepared for 82 games.”
“They are Soft,” the other says.
The guys under the Earth coughing up a lung and praying for light would tend to agree.
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