Why do basketball players get b#$ched at for not setting a good example by fighting...

[IGBT]

..they wana get rid of hiphop boogy ball and bring back basket ball. It's supposed to be a non contact sport.

 

[lobbyone]

sigh...and I used to like NBA, now I dunno what to think of it, almost like WWF...wait...WWE is it now? BAH!

 

[cubby1223]

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: cubby1223

Originally posted by: NFS4
But there's a difference. Those events get media coverage, but are psycho-analyzed to the point where:

[*]They bring in experts to determine what is going on in the minds of these players
[*]Questioning why someone getting paid so much money isn't a better role-model for kids
[*]How their environment causes such angst and frustration

When sh!t happens in other sports, it gets coverage and they're all like "That silly bastard, you know how he is" or "It's an unfortunate incident."

It seems as though with NBA fights, the mentality of the players is scrutinized on a whole different level.

Well then I'd think this is a question only ESPN can answer, not ATOT?

But everyone on ATOT is a qualified ESPN analyst, right?

You'd hope.

But ESPN does things more to get ratings than for the benifit of the sports, or the sports fan, so why they do things like that I couldn't say - except that they feel they get more ratings covering the nba brawls this way.

 

[ScottFern]

Are you kidding me? In football players get fined almost on a weekly basis for bad behavior. Beat your wife, get an assault charge, get a DUI you are going to get A) a heavy fine B) suspended without pay C) Both A and B.


Roger Goodell is making people who misbehave this year an example. Also, all the fines go straight towards charity. I don't see AT ALL how the NFL is lenient towards bad behavior.

T.O. just got fined $35,000 for spitting in another player's face.

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: jjsole

Originally posted by: slsmnaz

Originally posted by: jjsole
Agreed!

Its a buncha crap. Take a group of guys in their 20's give them millions and millions of dollars, many from the ghetto, and expect them to act like members of society. :roll:

Fixed

A young man from the ghetto with $5 million is still a young man from the ghetto.

And fighting is not being a member of society? What society are you from?

Berry Gordy figured this out early on when building Motown.

Artist development was a major part of Motown's operations. The acts on the Motown label were fastidiously groomed, dressed and choreographed for live performances. Motown artists were advised that their breakthrough into the white popular music market made them ambassadors for other African American artists seeking broad market acceptance, and that they should think, act, walk and talk like royalty, so as to alter the less-than-dignified image (commonly held by white Americans in that era) of black musicians. Given that many of the talented young artists had been raised in housing projects and were short on social and dress skills, this Motown department was not only necessary, it created an elegant style of presentation long associated with the label.

The above is quoted from the Wiki entry on Motown.