Although yours truly has always enjoyed both watching and playing sports, I have to say that one thing that has always eluded me is an interest in the NBA.
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy basketball at the high school level and one of the greatest events of all the entire year is March Madness and I will have the NBA playoffs on in the background, but pro hoops just never has done it for me.
Maybe it’s the fact that the season is 82-game season that puts half of each conference in the playoffs, maybe it’s the fact that as a Pittsburgh sports fan I never had a local team to root for, or maybe these guys just make it look too easy.
Still, I, like most every other sports fan out there, was paying attention to the whole Lebron James fiasco and even more when Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh entered the mix.
And like many of you, I got disgusted with James after the whole one-hour ESPN thing that just confirmed what everybody outside of Cleveland, Chicago and New York already knew. That includes James himself, who I am almost certain knew he was going to Miami from the minute he was allowed free agency.
What I don’t agree with, however, is the sentiment that most people who are not Heat or James fans have, that they want the team to lose and go down hard.
Personally, I don’t care what the Heat do – and maybe this is the benefit of not caring so much about the NBA in the past – but I will definitely be watching them do it every chance I get.
Whether or not this whole thing is good for the NBA, I can’t speculate, but I can tell you this much. They certainly have at least gained me as a viewer if not a fan.
