The NBA and The Blogosphere

For close to half a century, in order to watch a professional sports game you either had to turn on your TV or the next day pick up a local newspaper and maybe get some coverage of your local sports team. But now a days all you have to do is hop onto your favorite search engine and up will pop a million different things about every athletes where a bouts and every fact about every pro sports team to ever walk the earth. In Carles article "Has the NBA Gone Mainstream?" he talks about the transformation of the NBA from something that only the mega fans could really enjoy to the realm of any bloke on the street being able to learn about any superstar in the league by simply creating a twitter or Facebook. I will admit, I use twitter religiously to keep me updated on what is going on in the league and in any sports league for that matter. But doesn't that take the real passion out of it? It takes away from the true fan being able to boast his knowledge about his team because anyone can do it now a days. With every social media site on earth pumping out constant stories and articles pertaining to even the slight mishap a player might have, it eliminates someone who truly cares about the sport and grew up always being a fan. Granted, there are still the people who simply don't use the internet because they don't wanna give into the 21st century media swing that most people have taken witness to. But I can agree with this, because it shouldn't ruin the passion that people have for a sport they truly care about. People who like to blog about the NBA and what goes on should still be able to take their time and write about what they care about and not have to worry about them being overshadowed by the big time sites that any idiot on the street can read and get his knowledge from. With the NBA diving head first into the social media giant, people don't need to forget about what they still stand for and shouldn't knock on a true fan who still watches the game. I might be a social media whore but I don't dare knock on someone who still finds the love of the game the old fashioned way. http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8602142/the-nba-transformation-internet-friendly-juggernaut