Trae Young’s Showboating is Bad For The NBA

The NBA’s ratings are plummeting by the day and after Wednesday night’s Emirates Cup quarterfinals between the Atlanta Hawks and the New York Knicks

The Hawks beat the Knicks 108-100 in Madison Square Garden.

Dyson Daniels put Jalen Brunson in a figure four leg lock all night, holding him to just 14 points on 5-for-15 shooting from the field while Knicks coach, Tom Thibodeau, once again could not figure out how to stop the Hawks from creating an assembly line of alley-oops.

But the way Trae Young acted at the end of the game left a bad taste in my mouth and reminded me why no one watches this league anymore.

AWFUL sportsmanship by Trae Young tonight. The NBA needs to step in and at least fine him for this nonsense. Children watch this and they need to be taught the right way to play the game pic.twitter.com/jx4ZOBL3mV

— Dead Serious (@Deadseriousness) December 12, 2024

“Go to Vegas, baby! Roll the bones! Trae Young is already getting ready for the Craps table”

22 PTS, 11 AST, 5 REB in the win vs the Knickspic.twitter.com/dD0EnfCfnQ

— Ballislife.com (@Ballislife) December 12, 2024

Are you kidding me?

Skipping down the court?

Rolling dice on the Knicks logo???

This is what we’re teaching our children?

To mock our opponents?

Whatever happened to sportsmanship?

Playing at Madison Square Garden is a privilege. A blessing that should be treated with humility.

How dare Trae Young treat the Knicks logo like this.

The NBA focuses too much on these ne’er do wells and troublemakers and it’s alienating their core audience—hard-working, tax-paying, god-fearing Americans who just want to see some ball—who now have to watch multi-millionaires disrespect the game that has afforded them comforts their audience will never know.

I know the NBA just signed multi-bajillion TV deals with Amazon and ABC for the next decade but I wouldn’t be shocked if Amazon or Disney cut ties early with the NBA if they continue to allow their players to behave like straight thugs and hooligans.

The NBA might not exist in a few years thanks to the way Trae Young acted in the Emirates Cup.

But no, keep chucking up threes and letting Trae Young disrespect the great lineage of this league.

Go woke, go broke.

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