Welcome all! Please read the following about VintageNBA, the best on-line community for discussing NBA history!
OUR AIM: VintageNBA is for discussing and learning about old-school NBA, which is the period we define as ending with the most recent season in which fewer than five current NBA players were active (currently that's 2006-07) We are a community that works together toward furthering an understanding of the true history of basketball/NBA.
VINTAGENBA GUIDELINES: Posts and comments should provide at least one of the following:
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information or links that directly introduce or address a topic
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context, nuance, or analysis
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personal experience or thoughtful opinion
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a question not easily answered on the internet
VINTAGENBA EXPECTATIONS: Posts and comments should be generally serious and not low-effort. Be nice, and be community-minded in your responses. It's fine to correct a post/comment that is factually incorrect, but go easy on the down-voting. Repeat: be nice and go easy on the down-voting. Feel free to tell someone you disagree and why, but don't troll, don't call anyone or their ideas "dumb", don't be aggressive in any way, etc.
WHAT THIS SUB IS NOT:
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Cool Pics or Videos: Any post that looks/feels like "Hey look at this cool video or picture" will get deleted. There are other basketball subs with far more members that will gladly give you karma for this type of stuff. CAVEAT1: If your post is basically a picture, you need to provide meaningful context/information in the title so that it can lead toward a meaningful conversation (). CAVEAT2: Feel free to link a cool or weird or interesting picture/video in the comments of a relevantly connected post (). CAVEAT3: If you happen to host an insightful podcast about NBA history, please touch base with me first, and I'll probably encourage you to post about it (). CAVEAT4: If you find old newspaper articles or documents that illuminate something interesting that isn't common knowledge, post those ().
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Stuff You Own: We're not going to identify, price, or upvote your vintage basketball shoes or hat, and please don't sell stuff here. CAVEAT1: If you own every card in the famous 1961 Fleer card set, please post about it (). CAVEAT2: If you want to talk about hoops books, including showing a photo of which ones you own, we're usually cool with that (). CAVEAT3: Could the item tie directly into a discussion about how the NBA or a player's abilities were portrayed, so there's a legit link to the game? ()
MISC. THINGS:
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Resources: As always, I like to draw attention to our where I've curated some posts & links that might be helpful to someone studying basketball history.
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Bans: We don't like banning users, but we do ban people who seem to be posting for karma, are aggressive or trolling (don't be a dick), or who go overboard with biased opinions without participating in a back-and-forth discussion.
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Sub History: is some information about this sub's history and evolution (started April 10, 2019), including some in the comments of that post.
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Flair: , including 106 legendary players and every team logo ever. Sometimes we'll even make you a if you ask. Please add some flair to your username.
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Logo: If you're curious what exactly our red, white, and blue logo is and why, .
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True History: Up above, I said we work toward "an understanding of the true history of basketball/NBA". This sub's community has developed a healthy distrust for the "official" stories of the game's history as pushed by the NBA and by the Hall of Fame, that are then repeated ad nauseam. This sub is probably the best on-line resource for finding original/primary documents that provide the actual account of things back in the day. Please know this about our sub so that you don't feel talked down to if you're corrected about something you thought was commonly accepted (ex: ). It's ok to ask "Wait, what do you mean?", but please don't rely on the HOF or NBA if the primary sources are available and say otherwise.
