Hockey finals vs basketball finals
The hockey games are way more exciting and the camera angles are great. The 3-point shot has ruined basketball for me. Guys used to run and shoot. Now its walking the ball up court, passing the ball around, driving and dishing out to guys standing around the 3-point line.
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Of course football rules. And baseball...I just don't care about.
That being said as far as TV ratings for professional sports, it goes:
1. NFL
2. NBA
3. MLB
4. NHL
Or been to one.
I'm more into the NBA Finals than the NHL Finals, but that's only because I like basketball more.
Give each team 100 points, then play for 5 minutes. Still would take an hour to play those 5 minutes. Another item would be to lower the basket a foot. Sure would be a whole lot more good players and would eliminate the "freaks of nature".
How to "fix hockey:
Bring back the goons.
How to "fix" baseball:
Disband the Yankees.
How to "fix" football:
Bring back the 50's and 60's.
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I agree with Mikey. Maybe it's because of the size and athleticism in the NBA, but the game has really changed. They really spread the court and either pass the ball around and look for an open 3, or clear out so a great player (like LeBron) call play one on one. I'm not saying it's bad - but after watching college ball for so many years, the NBA is a different game and hard to get used to.
Probably the best 'black' player at the moment in the NHL is P.K. Subban of Le Canadien de Montreal. He's a big, bruising defenceman who can skate, make plays, and shoot howitzers from the point on the power play. He has attitude and takes absolutely no shit from his opponents....probably the most hated player in Boston after he made mincemeat of the Bruins in this year's playoffs. Habs also have the NHL's best First Nations player, goalie Carey Price. Price's mom was (maybe still is) the chief of a band in British Columbia's Chilcotin.
My beloved Edmonton Oilers have had many 'black' players over their time in the NHL. In fact, by the number of 'black' players on Oilers' rosters over the years it can be said that the Oilers are the most colour-blind team in the NHL. My favourite was the goalie on the great teams of the 1980s, Grant Fuhr - now in the Hockey Hall of Fame.
For most of his NHL career Jerome Iginla played for the hated Calgary Flames and always seemed to play his best against my Oilers during all those grand Battles of Alberta. He was, and still is, a player of high talent and quality. He is also one tough dude; you scrap with him at your own peril out on the ice. A stupid Oilers player (Sheldon Souray) was dumb enough to tangle with Iginla one night - broke his fist on Iginla's skull. Iginla made the pass to Sidney Crosby who scored the 'golden goal' in overtime to win the gold medal for Canada over USA at the Vancouver Winter Olympics in 2010.
Watch out for a young hard rock just starting his career with the Anaheim Ducks, Devante Smith-Pelly; that kid is going to be a 'playa'.