The NBA now the top sports league in moral standings?

BETDEPORTES PRESENTS:
The NBA is better than your league

Alright everybody has heard enough of the old 'the NBA is for thugs' philosophy. Although it has died off a little as of recently, i would just like to voice my views about how now, the NBA might be the 'cleanest' league in America by comparing it to others.


NFL - I love football. This is the easiest to dismiss. Nobody has ever accused the NFL of being less 'aggressive' than the NBA. First of all, their is a huge, underloved cause of NFL players who need help AFTER their careers end. Big studies have been done, clincal depression and even early deaths are HUGE issues that need more care. After that comes drugs. Besides the 'party' drug issues (which is something the NBA also deals with, so i cant call the NFL out on this) you got performance enhancers. I have no idea why football doesnt have its own Mitchell Report like paper, but i guess it just does not care. Besides steriods, you got straight up criminals. One of its biggest stars is just getting out of prison for fighting dogs, and it seems just about every month, another dude gets locked up or pulled over. Who remembers when a Cincinnati Bengal was more likely to be wearing Prison Orange than Bengal Orange last year? Or that a certain cornerback gets his name in the news for what he does at clubs, not on the field (PACMAN!!). But this is just the latest example.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gM2ZbtIMv2U72DRClyir-FkX-KBAD96F3SB04.

MLB - I have no idea why baseball is still our national pastime. While we do still got lots of clean players, the biggest names are always turning out to have used some 'roids. We all know about Alex Rodregueiz and his injections. What strikes me most about A-Rod is that he keeps trying to downplay it all. Watch it by clicking here. Saying stuff like "we were amutures" and "we probolay didn even do it right" is the next closest thing to denial. Sure he fessed up, but only because he was called out. I hope Alex does not break Bond's record, but if he does, he will be no better than Barry. But at the same time, what Barry did, and what Alex did do with steriods is amazing. I did read Jose Canseco's first book about 2 summers ago, and he said the majority of the leauge were users. That means it is not JUST offensive players. So, even though Alex and Barry and Mark and Sammy and Migeul all cheated, the guys throwing the balls were cheating too. We all know clown 1 and clown 2 were avid users, which helped them be dominate pitchers. But brining it back to my starting point, i think any sport that is now not as much based on natural ablitiy as much as who can poke the best needle in your ass should not be the national passtime.


NHL - This leauge is a joke. The only reason it is loved, is because it is dominated by white people. You guys are all thinking 'Whoa BET just played the race card' but bear with me. Parents want their kids to have role models that look like them, but with better aspects. So do you really think Soccer Mom Sally and Buisness Bobby are going to let their son look up to a big black man like Charles Barkley? That is what leads parents to raise their kids on hockey. However, hockey is a great sport to watch, very faced paced and intresting. BUT it is also the most violent. Things like THIS happen. On top of it all, it gets NO media scrutiny. The fights are actually tolerated, refs circle around and let the 'entertainment' happen for 2-3 minutes before 'breaking it up'. If that occured in the NBA or NFL (and anytime situations like this happen) 4 letter idiots wet their pants calling the particpants 'thugs'. In the NHL their are no thugs, just 'hockey players.

But what really inspired me to write this was a huge story that isnt getting enough media attention. http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=519904

The NBA may have their own little bastard on the inside, but oh wait, so does the NHL, and he now is working their again! "Tocchet was served with a criminal complaint, accused of financing a nationwide sports gambling ring based in New Jersey in which several current NHL players wagered"

Nascar - Vroom vroom. If you really want to hear my views on NASCAR, good luck. The only way that would happen is if this and this occured at the same time. Either way, you would not like them. I am not this man.

Lacrosse- For people that realize the evil of baseball and football, but's parent forbidded them from loving basketball. Aka this.

NBA - I already told you why the other sports are inferrior, now let me explain why the NBA is better than them. 1. NBA Cares - a program unmatched by anything else. NBA cares is a great thing. It lets people interact with NBA players while preforming community service at the same time. 2. Great plays - Only in the NBA can you find guys doing sensational plays, not saying other sports dont have great plays too. I just am biased on this one. 3. The best commissioner. Who is gonna catch him? Selig? STERIOD ERA. Goddell? EVERYTHING. This guy knows how to run a bussiness, and it doesnt hurt he loves basketball either.


To wrap this up, i think the NBA deserves a better rep. I think it has done everything to deserve it. Stuff like this does not happen in the NBA anymore. Or at least not to such a dergee. Until the NBA has its Marshawn Lynchs, its Alex Rodregueizs, its Roger Clemens, its Todd Bertuzzis, and its Kostitsyn brothers i dont see why it shouldnt rise to the top of the sports spectrum.


Cat out.