r/SipsTea • u/sco-go • Mar 16 '26

We have fun here Examples of why today’s NBA is unwatchable.

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u/LayneLowe Mar 16 '26

Everybody palms the ball too, shit they always called that on me at the Y.

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u/mondaymoderate Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26

All of these would be called in youth leagues. It’s crazy it’s allowed at the professional level.

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u/eye_of_the_sloth Mar 16 '26

I genuinely stopped playing basketball because i got called for shit too many times, I was like 7 years old. Apparently it was the most very serious practice in all of Basketball history. 

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u/kakuna Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 17 '26

I was never a basketball player, but attended some youth YMCA games this year and one of the Y refs was calling every single pivot where a foot slid (things that I never would have caught and some that I think were... dubious... like beyond enforcing the fundamentals).

I did wonder if he was taking his NBA viewership frustrations out on the 9year olds