NBA Trash Talk is Childish
NBA players are human, but they look like kindergarten when they fight on the floor. They should know better. Games are recorded so, trash talk and scuffles are immortalized.
The NBA as an organization has come up with all kinds of rules, do’s and don’t, in its role as kindergarten teacher. It must be frustrating for players when the NBA keeps tightening screws on how such a contact sport is played.
Ex NBA players can shed light on this. They can give us a run down on how certain fouls came about and how the NBA attached a dollar figure to punishment.
Until we hear from these former players, it is not far fetched to assume that it was human error. Players behaved in a particular way, the NBA deemed obnoxious.
Despite fines and suspensions, players continue to erupt against each other on the floor, which brings me to coaches. I sometimes think that coaches are redundant, because players are creative.
They got the game. The street is the best coach. After all, there are no coaches in American neighbourhoods, but there is ego on the block.
When NBA players fight on television, I come to the conclusion that coaches are ego managers, not professionals that can add new knowledge to the game.
By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.
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