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Message: [QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 5280517, member: 488"] The NBA will always be fighting an uphill battle to win over certain demographics in this country no matter what it does. 20 years ago people bemoaned the lack of scoring in the league and clamored for the up-tempo games of the 80s. Now the pendulum has swung the other way and people want to slow the sport down again. Fact is, our preference on what we want the league to look like is highly dependent on which era we were born into. Every era has its pluses and minuses, but for my money the league was at its best, at least in the 21st century, from around '08 to '17. I think the ripple effects of Durant joining the Warriors plus the popularization of Harden/Morey ball drove the league to slightly rockier footing, and my hope is that we're in the beginning stages of rectifying that now. [/QUOTE]