NBA Needs to Turn Down the Noise
I made it to a Sixers game this week and noticed a disturbing trend. No, it wasn’t the total lack of a team concept prevalent in the NBA. I noticed that years ago. Going to the game hilighted a much more bothersome tendency — the presumption that the public is stupid. The Sixers play a movie clip of happy, jubilent people after every single basket by the home team. The not-so-subtle message seems to be that fans need visual cues to cheer. The fact that the team they’ve paid good money to watch has just scored is apparently no longer sufficient. It’s bad enough you have to scream to have a conversation with the person sitting next to you. Leaving the game with your ears ringing because there’s not a moment of silence from the time you enter the arena til you leave is no longer the only insult the NBA inflicts on its patrons. Now they call you stupid about 50 times a game. The argument, no doubt, is that this is what must be done to entertain the younger generation with an ever decreasin