I'm Back! Too bad the NBA isn't...

Goodbye HoopsHardcore.com.  You were a truly EPIC FAIL...

R.I.P.

     Trying to launch a basketball related site while the NBA goes into a lockout was the end of that.  Maybe I'll give it another shot, but for now I still feel the need to write, blog, rant, and have my voice heard by the 3 readers of this site!  As the NBA lockout continues I'll be writing about everything there is related to basketball.  This won't be a source for the constant "updates on the CBA talks and lockout updates", though I might have the occasional blog discussing it.

     Instead, as of now, I'll be writing about things of the past related to the NBA, things of the future, as well as how players are doing over in Europe (like American born Deron Williams playing in Turkey for team/franchise Besiktas as well as Russian born, previous Euroleague stud as a young-man turned NBA star Andrei Kirilenko playing back in the league he came from).  Watching NBA players try to adapt to the Euroleague, as well as the other leagues around the world, is quite an interesting concept most of us hardcore NBA fans never really imagined happening.

     Watching a top 5 NBA Point-Guard like Deron Williams put up 11 points and 5 assists in 23 minutes while he lead his team to a huge 30+point win seemed fitting considering the other team couldn't match the talent level of D-Will, let alone guard the gigantic PG (especially for Europe) at 6'4''+ in shoes as well as his big frame of 215 pounds.  Combine that with his deceiving athleticism and speed, his ability to shoot the ball consistently well out to 23-24 feet, but also his high IQ for the game, and I don't think Besiktas should lose a single game with him there. (I'll be writing about him more).

    Now that we know the first 2 weeks of the season have already been cancelled many of the "common fans" of the NBA are already so disinterested they no longer have the NBA in their thoughts.  Damn, I wish I didn't have this obsession for the game, but the CBA and lockout does have some interesting components.

     I mean come on, who doesn't love watching millionaire players/reps argue with the billionaire NBA owners and commissioner? That damn Stern wanting "parity" in the NBA. Damn him for wanting the league to be more fair in terms of giving the small market teams a better chance to compete in terms of signing Free Agents and trying to keep the NBA from turning into the MLB (with no hard cap or even luxury tax), allowing the NY Yankees to have a $160 billion dollar payroll these days and consistently signing most of the big-time free agents.  On the other side, of course, are the players who are the ones that truly "run the league".  They are the ones we go and watch, and they are sticking with that fact to an extreme it seems, barely budging in negotiations (though they have agreed to take a hit already and I'm not saying they are wrong or right in what they're doing).

     To be honest, none of us truly know what's happening in the lockout negotiations.  All we do is form our opinions about it based on what the owners and NBA upper's, along with Stern, say and what the players and player reps say.  All fed through media outlets. Seeing that we aren't stupid, it's easy to see that both sides are very extreme in what they say about the other side, and surprisingly (not at all actually) both sides are lying to the news and fans about what is actually going on.

If you aren't in the meetings you won't have an actual basis to discuss what's going on.  This is why I will not be blogging updates on the negotiations daily, nor will I be calling either the owners or players greedy or power hungry.  Wait a sec, strike that, right now I will call both the players and the owners power hungry... hah.

But in good faith let's just hope there is a season; even if it's 50 games.  For the sake of the fans and all the people losing jobs/money (talking to the lower/middle class citizens that work at arenas and restaurants and other businesses located closely to or around the 30 NBA team's arenas; businesses that depend on 41 home games a season for a partial (or even majority) part of their profits.  Then of course for the sake of the players and the league in general.

Let us hope for an NBA season this year!

For now, favorite this amazing blog so you can visit it daily and witness the miraculous phenomena known as "JoshFarc's Genius Blog".  And while I hope you realize I'm being extremely sarcastic (about the genius, not about bookmarking this site as a favorite...), if my writing doesn't make you want to come back, maybe this awesome video will...

     One love my people. Bookmark this site damnit! Also, I do all my forum discussion at HoopsHype Forum. So if you want to talk hoops in a pretty active forum (considering there is an NBA lockout and all basketball sites are taking a big hit), make your voice heard!  There's a link to the forum at the top of the page. I am also "JoshFarc" on the forum.

See all 3 of my loyal readers tomorrow!