Comments on: Perfect Example of Why I Stopped Watching NBA Basketball

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 05:31:56 +0000

Hi Eddie. I’ve written a bunch of articles about the sorry state of journalism and the media in general. Frankly, all of the media sucks. Generally, I use the New York Times and FOX News as my sources (have to balance the left with the right). And speaking of the New York Times, they have the best news website on the internet – bar none.

Here is their article on the same topic:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/07/sports/basketball/07arenas.html

By: Eddie T.

Eddie T. — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:44:25 +0000

I would be really interested in you doing a piece on the blog about journalism these days. I know your take in general on the topic from chatting with you, but someone intelligent that knows how to write (you) really needs to do a blog entry on this. The New York Post, one of the nation’s most respected news sources, claimed Javaris and Gilbert “drew guns at each other” and came up with an apology in the corner box on page 9 a couple of days later saying the report was wrong after several credible sources (and eventually NBA Security) said nothing like this happened. Isn’t today’s world of journalism absolutely ridiculous?! Nonetheless, this is no excuse for how the players acted, as bringing 3 guns to a workplace is certainly not defending your 122 million dollar contract (Gilbert Arenas). As far as the Nets go, if you haven’t heard they were bought by a Russian millionaire (who’s being described everywhere as the Russian version of Mark Cuban) and people are already making the “New Jersey Nyets” jokes. The good news is tons of money will go into the club meaning they will pursue “King” LeBron (I hate this LeBron mania as much as you do! The kid hasn’t even won a championship ring yet!) and a few big names. Plus doesn’t seem like they’re going to Brooklyn for another year so maybe you can get into it 🙂

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:20:56 +0000

The 1990s with Jordan and the Bulls were great. I remember it almost like it was yesterday. Now sadly, such references are so far away that I now sound like an old guy to anyone who came around after that time period. Even sadder is that the Bulls really haven’t done anything memorable (minus last years post season series against Boston) since Jordan’s final shot against Utah in ’98.