Aside from the actual basketball product degrading into a glorified three point contest, I think the biggest NBA lack of storyline difference is because players move to different teams so often. In the 80s and 90s, Bird was a Celtic, Magic was a Laker, Jordan was a Bull, Ewing was a Knick, Hakeem was a Rocket, Stockton and Malone on the Jazz, Robinson was a Spur, Drexler was a Blazer, Wilkins was a Hawk, English was a Nugget, Miller was a Pacer, Payton was a Supersonic, Thomas and Dumars were Pistons, Price was a Cavalier, Mullin was a Warrior. Not saying players shouldn't ever switch teams but it helps to have players identifiable with one franchise.
@@bcschneider53 I couldn't agree more, college basketball is my favorite sport due to the rivalries and every game feeling huge all season, but the portal and conference realignment has definitely soured my interest this offseason. I wasn't as bothered by the one and dones and two and dones because that only affected 20-40 or so players every year, but now you can no longer see young teams grow and develop over years and get attached to any players over multiple seasons. I'm glad to see Purdue has such a strong culture where only 1-2 guys leave a year, but there's only a couple of other programs in college basketball that are like that. I think you have a lot of good takes and hope to see you grow.
@@kylethomas2993 Thank you! I've been very busy with the GRID channel this year but there are definitely more projects for this channel I still want to get around to doing sometime soon.
