Or is it a problem because the grind and content isn’t good enough to have players level their characters up by actually playing the game?

This. Any system that relies on not paying players is a system that should not exist. The system must be reformed so that it can pay players.

Well, no, they probably would. Leagues like the D-League provide housing for their athletes.

Please keep up. Don’t ask me to explain the appeal of high school sports because I don’t get it. It’s just as confusing to me as Twitch.

I don’t know why people watch high school football! I find the football culture of, say, Texas, to be extremely weird, at least as weird as Twitch streaming. I mean, in the smaller places there is a tight knit community - dude plays football for Cattle High, has a kid, kid plays for Cattle High, etc., but then I see…

The military has always and will always treat its soldiers as tools, and tools are disposable.

Yea. The initial gold rush is over. Maybe a few years ago you could get in on the ground floor, if you’re a girl where a low cut top, if you’re a guy make some goofy noises and stuff, and get a huge following.

I don’t know about you, but I certainly could not aspire to play at the level of Duke basketball players or Alabama football players.

Cubs may have been bad relative to the rest of the league, but even the worst player on the Cubs is in the top .001% of players on the planet.

Boston has gotten several of the Nets’ picks!

So then it’s not really about the game. People aren’t watching some guy because he’s good at a game, they’re watching him because they like the guy.

Would you go watch some mediocre high school player take BP for 3 hours a day?

for every stream that is “here is this guy amazing at game X doing amazing stuff”, there’s some random slob playing a game at least as poorly as I could play it.

it’s really not.

it’s almost like the two are related

Next year is 2018 and this team is still a weird collection of mediocre at best cast offs and injury prone pieces that may or may not fit together. What are the chances of “serious winning” next year?

If David Stern was in charge i would have no doubt that the NBA did that to get rid of Hinkie.

Never been to Montana, although I want to! Like many I want to spend time in all 50 states, halfway done (+ PR).

yea but then you live in cleveland

He should go back to the sidelines with a fake moustache Bobby V style