GOOD NEWS

[Agent 47]

How's this fellow sports haters, I heard some great news on breakfast radio recently - they were saying that the NBL (Australia's "National Basketball League") is going through some difficult times at the moment, and it seems that they are scaling back their operations! Apparently there's poor attendance at games, and a couple of teams have gone broke and have just completely disbanded! Ha ha!

Unfortunately they've created an online campaign to try to "save" it. Why do they bother. When will they learn. Just google "save the nbl", or click on these links to see their cretinous campaign of clap trap.


http://forum.sportal.com.au/yaf_postst2 ... e-NBL.aspx

http://www.aussiebball.com/forums/index ... e=threaded

http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/200 ... blaze.html


But the NBL's flimsy foundation of fair weather fans have shown their true colours for the fake bunch of deserters that they actually are, and the phoney facade that is the NBL is in reality crumbling away! FANTASTIC! There should be more of it I say! Here's to the demise of the NBL!

[natmanhan]

"Only ever talk about the NBL." Wow, I'm sure that'll make for some interesting conversations. I'm a video game lover and could never limit myself to just talking about one game.

[abitagirl]

"Only ever talk about the NBL?" How boring would that be? Wouldn't you alienate a lot of people if you did that? Besides, who is really going to do that? "My grandmother died, but let's talk about basketball instead!"

So basically they want everybody to abandon their lives and turn into some boring sports freaks who can't talk about anything else?

Now, are people really not interested? I would hope so, but I would try not to gloat too much. Same thing happened over here last year, with an apparent lack of interest in the local NBA team, but then there was some mass guilt trip laid on everyone because of it, and it WORKED. Bunch of sheep. (Apologies to actual sheep.)

"Yep, I like it. I'm harassing friends now to come to games with the rest of us"

I feel sorry for this guy's friends.

[Skul]

He forgot to put quotation marks around the word friends, I think.

Yeah, talk about basketbore only. That'll do something. Like make you a boring twat to be around.

[Detroitsportsfan08]

Thankfully for sports fans everywhere, the NBL is nowhere near one of the best basketball leagues.

No loss here, except for Australian hoops fans.

[Agent 47]

the NBL is nowhere near one of the best basketball leagues.

How do you even know that? If you really do know that for sure, then you must really waste your life watching basketball on TV from around the world. Alternatively, you're just full of shit.

[Detroitsportsfan08]

It's common knowledge.

Very few Australian players have played in the premier basketball league in the world, the NBA.

[natmanhan]

Thankfully for sports fans everywhere, the NBL is nowhere near one of the best basketball leagues.

No loss here, except for Australian hoops fans.

Why is that "thankfully?" Because then all the others would really suck?

What if the Australian team was just way better than it is now?

[Detroitsportsfan08]

I don't know. Look at the Olympic results.

All I know is that NBA is the premier league in the World, and it's not going anywhere.

Followed by European leagues, who also aren't going anywhere.

[Fat Man]

WHAT???

You mean Australia's NBL has gone broke?

Oh my God! This is terrible!!!

NOT!!!

Yeah, the poor NBL!

My heart really pumps piss for them!

BUUUAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[natmanhan]

I don't know. Look at the Olympic results.

All I know is that NBA is the premier league in the World, and it's not going anywhere.

Followed by European leagues, who also aren't going anywhere.

Hehehe, we'll see about that. China has a lot of people and a lot of determination.

Not that I really care about basketball anyway.

[Agent 47]

It's common knowledge.

Very few Australian players have played in the premier basketball league in the world, the NBA.

So you don't watch all the games yourself to accurately assess them for yourself then, do you. Looks like I was right then - you're just full of shit. "Common KNOWLEDGE" you say - you've got to be kidding. You must have a very low threshold for what constitutes KNOWLEDGE. At best, you're just regurgitating pointless boring sporting statistics like the trained parrots that you sports fans are.

The trouble is you see, just using raw numbers of participation like that leads to a distorted comparison between any two leagues/associations. At the very least, you would have to weight the figures to take into account the different population figures of each country - don't forget Australia has only got about 0.3% of the worlds population. And there would be many other factors that would have to be taken into consideration as well. Such as, historic cultural saturation of the activity in each country, relative amount of media hype supporting it, relative amount of government subsidies for it, etc., etc., and no doubt many other POINTLESS AND BORING FACTORS ABOUT SPORT, to get a realistic comparison.

Making a comparison while NOT adjusting for all these complex factors would be distorting reality, and that would be CHEATING, and that would be very UN-SPORTSMANLIKE of you, now wouldn't it dsf08.

It's like the Olympics results. Countries with large populations do well on the overall medal tally table, certainly. Not that I waste my time following it too closely or even care though, but from what I hear from our sports nuts here in Australia, "we" do extremely well WHEN YOU ADJUST FOR RELATIVE POPULATION BASE. Get it?

And you see dsf08, your USA's relatively large population is a double edged sword that works AGAINST you as well. It also means that you's are OVER-represented, if you just use raw numbers, in globally DESTRUCTIVE things like atmospheric pollution as well. For example, if you look at annual tonnage of CO2 emissions, then the USA is WAY ahead of Australia. (In raw numbers, kind of like the basketball, right?). But then if you make adjustments on a per capita basis, then the USA and Australia, are pretty much neck and neck. Do you get that? It's like basketball - we're pretty much all the same when you unpack it.

But I did a little bit of research on the NBA for myself, and I found out something very interesting. You might want to sit up and pay attention here dsf08, because you might learn something. According to the figures I got for the 2008-09 season, ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cu ... BA_players ), there are 433 players in the NBA, and 2 of them are Australian, and according to my trusty calculator, 2 divided by 433, multiplied by 100, means that Australians are 0.46% of the players in the NBA. If you recall that Australians are only about 0.3% of the population of the world, then it could be said that Australians are actually OVER represented in the NBA. Well, well, well, how about that. Of course these would all be just more pointless boring sporting statistics, EXCEPT THAT THEY EXPOSE YOU AS AN UNRELIABLE SOURCE OF INFORMATION - or as we say here in Australia - YOU'RE FULL OF SHIT.

And let's stop beating around the bush. You were having a dig at Australians, weren't you, (and then later, Europeans), and that makes you a RACIST, as well as being full of shit. Yes that's right, you are a racist. You are claiming an attachment to something (apparently deludedly) that you see as "superior", and demeaning other cultures on the basis of that. DETROITSPORTSFAN08, YOU ARE A RACIST, as well as being full of shit. Well, you're on your own with that attitude. You have revealed to all the world, here on an international stage, that you use sport as an excuse for anti-social behaviour such as recklessly spreading mis-information, and racial abuse. You low dog.

If you must continue being a racist, then here's a link for you. You should go and hang out there, with them, instead of hanging out here. Go on then, go and be with your own kind. You're completely and utterly wasting you're time here.

http://www.kukluxklan.bz/



Hey, here's a joke that I just made up -

Q. Why did the sports fan cross the road?
A. Because everybody else did.

[jboy590]

YESSS!!!! maybe now The u.s sports leagues like the nfl,nba,mlb, and nascar could follow. Oh and maybe other country's too.
One can dream right?

[Lewis]

A good thing to happen would be if the football players lost their gold plated pay cheques.

[Ray]

What unexpected great news! The NBL is dying! From neglect. Because no one is really interested. Well well well... If it can happen there, it can happen HERE! I hope the same thing happens to the American version of basketball whatever it's called. I liked that guys advice:


Boycott as many basketball games as possible (which means ALL of them)

- Spread the word: basketball is for losers

- Distance yourself from basketball and anything connected to basketball

- Never buy or wear basketball jerseys of any kind.

- Never put basketball stickers on your car. Or desk. Or locker or anywhere.

- Never talk about basketball or even admit that you know what it is. Basketball is for lamers.

- Never sign up for the online sports newsletters. To acknowledge basketball is to invite mediocrity.

- Get as many people as you know to write emails and letters to TV, Radio Stations, Newspapers local and international demanding that sports, particularly basketball, be eliminated from the public airwaves.

- Find out the names of team members and write them letters encouraging them to drop out and get real jobs. Write their wives and spill the beans about the basketball player's affairs when "away". Write the coach and inform him about the player's observed drug use. Write the team owner on behalf of the player and tell him you QUIT!

- Never play basketball with your younger family members. Entertain them with some alternative entertainment. Encourage excellence.

- Never wear basketball colours when out and about.

- Boycott all sports gear, particularly basketball shoes and jerseys. Wearing them makes you look like a fool.