recently. Now I only care about the playoffs, and even then, I really only care after the first round. The games are meaningless.

I feel the same about baseball and hockey. In football, every game counts.

Then you throw in load managment and the fact that even average NBA players make $25mm a years and it's just too disconnected from reality for me to care that much.

Lastly, 3 point shooting has killed it. Admittedly players today are more skilled than ever but basically if you can't shoot, you can't play. There are more blowouts and even the playoffs seems boring. I don't know how they fix it. I wish the would slash 30 games off the regular season and make the playoffs each best of five.