Basketball isnt even basketball anymore. It's just ghetto street ball as far as I see it. The players are a joke and handle themselves as a bunch of ghetto fabulous punks. They are just a bunch of tall undisaplined oversized dudes that really have no experienced knowledge of the real game.
The Johnson, Jordan, Kareem, Bird, etc players are second to none. The game was fun to watch and the athletes were true athletes. I loved to see the small guys shooting from far past 3 point range, the tall guys down low slamming the boards and getting rebounds. The fact that assists were meaningful statistics.
I remember watching these games throughout the 80 and early 90's and one thing that sticks out in my head was the way the ball moved up and down the court with grace. Now you watch a game and it's a sloppy mess of players trying to get noticed. There is no more game and thats why NBA's ratings are horrible. Lets get some little guys back in the game so we can see some skill instead of just height.