I just saw an espn YouTube post about Harden never missing the postseason in his career and the top comments were legit comparing him to Robert Horry winning 7 rings.

Harden was the best player on all of his rockets teams and is a literal mvp. You could argue he was the most important player on those nets teams as well. I feel like most nba fans don’t watch basketball. They just watch sports content, podcasts Instagram, espn, highlights, they occasionally check stats and then tune in for the second round of the playoffs and beyond. And then some will just watch lakers/lebron games if they’re on tv

Edit; it’s part of the reason why all nba fans wanna have are Jordan lebron Kobe debates because they don’t actually watch the game like that and those debates are easy because all the talking points are well known and easy to repeat

I have a convo with an nfl or soccer or boxing fan and I feel like I’m at least talking with someone who watches the sport they discuss even if I don’t agree. I think the 82 game season makes it unappealing to tune in to a random Bulls game at 7:30. I know this would never happen for financial reasons but I wish the regular season was just every team playing each other once and conference rivals playing twice. People would actually watch games like they do for other sports

What do y’all think?