The 4 most scrutinized players in the NBA right now
By Luke Duffy
The NBA is home to the best basketball players in the world, but this group of individuals receives more flak than they should from fans.
You know the thing about success don’t you? The more of it that you have, the more people there are who want to knock you off your perch. Jealously, unjust hate, call it whatever you want, but it is a very real thing. For NBA players, that holds especially true.
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The ability for fans to spray their opinions all over social media through Twitter, and actually tag players in the process, introduces a dynamic whereby they can get directly to an individual if they want to. If that person cares to scans their mentions which, let’s be honest, we all do to some degree, that individual will see it.
In a time when the belief that “your fact is as valid as my opinion” is how a lot of people approach any conversation or argument, finding common ground on something like basketball and how players are rated or appreciated is a minefield. Given that sport, in general, is built upon fandom and how different people perceive success (except Michael Jordan, who wins at everything), it can be damn near impossible to talk rationally with anybody about basketball.
Yet who thing which large sections can agree on, strangely enough, is how overrated an individual is. Or at the very least, how their successes should be taken with a pinch of salt because of whatever other factors they like to throw into the mix to validate their argument.