This article talks about today’s NBA stars, why fans think that NBA today is not so exciting to watch as they use to be. The NBA players now is not so much worth cheering for and identifying with.

In a recent poll commissioned by The Mag, opinions of the casual fan regarding the NBA suggest significant—and troubling—racial stereotyping. Nearly 50% of those polled think “it’s a shame what’s happening to the league” versus 38% who feel the same about baseball (even in the wake of the daily steroids headlines) and 21% about the NFL (despite the recent doings of Michael Vick and Pacman Jones). The poll also reveals that you think the typical NBA player is less likely than his counterparts in the three other major leagues to respect the fans, remain loyal to his team or even love his wife—and more likely to carry a gun, use recreational drugs and have an entourage.

Many more problem are revealing, the NBA stars have more and more bad behaviors, they don’t respect the fans, they don’t focus their efforts on basketball, they take drugs they leave their wives and sons and daughters, they are not not qualified for takeing as an example anymore.

If NBA wants to win back the fans they should fully understand fans perception about perfection, they want their players are not only able to play well but they also have a charming personality who can set an example for one’s life. That’s what NBA should focus on now.

In this article Michael Jordan talks about two things, one is the importance of maturity of the players, the second is how to make a team successful.

he thinks that if the teenagers come out of school too early because they still can’t tell apart what is right and what is right very clearly. They don’t know what they should do and what they should not do.  They are not ready to take their responsibilities and they are not able to face up to the bad result of their rash behavoirs. And because they are young and talented they are always lured by money and other bad things.

Later he talks about how to makes a team successful. He thinks that a successful should not only have great players but also a unique team charateristics. A successful team shoudn’t aim to creat another Michael Jordan or any other big stars, they should creat new stars with a striking new features. So he concludes a sentence that is DON’T TRY TO DUPLICATE.

• This article actually tell us one thing about sport star that is they are merely human like anyone of us maybe even worse.

• In the sports feild, the sport stars just like heros, they shoot goals, gain amazing scores, they always save a dying match by magically score. They are strong, determined and have perfect skills and therefore they have become the model of many people.

• But things you don’t know about these sport stars behind the court or the feild actually will disappoint a lot of people because most of the stars are not hero in their personal lives. Most of the stars have flaws just like anyone on earth.

• Tyson is absolutely one of the most honorable boxers in history, he is the hero of  the millioms. But when you know that she actually raped a 18 year old girl what is your reaction? Still consider him as a hero? No, absolutely no, he is merely a criminal without moral.

• After reading it, I think the sport nowadays focus too much on making money, the commercialization of sport is getting more and more severe. We should try to change sport into a world not only about wining and good skill but also morality to the best of our ability.

This story tell us a fact that is people don’t pay much attention on mono athletes, they always ignore these very talented athletes. But why? What makes people act like this, in contrary, these people should arouse more attention because they are special and more inspring, but the truth is, people just don’t like to wacth competitions of disabled people.

Yes, everyone will praise and admit that it is very amazing for a disable people to do sports, they just don’t like to watch it. Why? I think one reason may be about the nature of sport, that is competition,  speed, strength, power and fight. Maybe competitions for the disabled people don’t demonstrate these natures very well, because these competition are not so fierce, the speed of the game is slow, they are actually not very exciting to watch. Another reason for people not willing to watch mono athletes play maybe bacause the disabled people make them feel uncomfortable, for the reason that they can’t help to feel pityful for the disabled people, and this deducts the excitement of the competition. The last and most obvious reason is that there are so much professional sports events out there, they have gigantic club which produce not only fantastic games but also great sport stars, they have money to do advertising and the media focus much more attention on these huge sport clubs.

These are my point of view, I just hope people will pay more attention on mono athletes.

After reading this article, I have a question on my mind, why large portion of the NBA player came from the suburb instead of the inner city.

The city can provide a lot of advantages for a boy to become a NBA player, you konw so many stars are in hte city, street baskateball, countless competitions, better training facilities and even coaches.

There are some possibilities I can think of but I am not sure if I am right because I am not living in America. First, I think there is a possibility that the kids in suburbs have more time practicing because they don’t have much entertainment in the suburbs, and bskateball dosen’t need much preperation, all you need are a ball and a net. So they can spend a lot of time in practicing their skills. But the kids living in inner cities have much more activities for them to choose they can watch movies in the theater, they go to bars, they can do part-time jobs, they can attend lectures and many different social activities, so many of them actuall not choose baskateball as their hobby. Second, kids in suburbs see baskatball as a chance to enter good college so they always practice hard trying to have a good performance so a good university will admit them after they graduate from high school.But childern in the inner cities always have more choices and opportunities and because the life they have experienced in the inner cities they are more motivated in studying and know better what they want and what they should do to achieve it they only take baskateball as a program to watch or a sport to help them keep fit.

So, there is a big chance for the kids in suburbs to become basketball stars.