yeah IIRC the globetrotters worked back in the day because there was just the NBA for professional basketballers, and therefore more of the "street" guys without the raw athleticism to play in the NBA could hook up with the globetrotters and practice their crazy trick shots and etc etc. and evidently back then the showsmanship was on another level because they had to do things to make you go !!!!/DAAAAAMMMNNNN!!!!!! because society as a whole expected talent and passion from their entertainers.... now they're beyond-conditioned for mediocrity-at-best and they worship whatever's there simply because it's there.
also nowadays you've got european leagues, the NBDL, and other things to soak up that 2nd-tier of basketball talent, so they're not automatically going to gravitate to the globetrotters to eek out a living as a professional basketballer. hell, there's those and-1 teams/barnstorming-tours that purport to get the best street-ball talent in the world assembled on one team. cuz guys like
the professor would never stand a chance in the NBA given the raw athleticism required to make it to/in the association.... so instead of automatically ending up a globetrotter they showcase their skills with the and-1 tour and yeah. that little white kid was sick cuz idk if he could even dunk but he had the flashy streetball game along with a cold jumper that allowed him to be the unlikely underdog to make it onto the and-1 tour from 2003-2010 (i remember he was the kid who was on that old ESPN2 "making the tour" and-1 show and he was basically the turd that wouldn't flush.... and after he hit a huge 3pt shot to win a game for his team @ madison square garden it was like "ok kid you made the team")
and yeah.... these and-1 tour guys were the kind of guys who would have been globetrotters many moons ago, but now the globetrotters are basically a nostalgic thing where grand/parents take their kids all like "these guys were awesome back when i was your age!" but as you and countless others have noticed... the globetrotters are basically some kind of a joke in the 2010s because they're getting fourth-or-fifth-tier-talent at best, and yeah, if you have legit skills odds are you're going to go make your $$$ elsewhere trying to sell shoes/clothes/whatever for and-1 before you become a globetrotter.
btw that and-1 MC guy who walks around with a mic doing the play by play over the live PA for the crowd = sheer and utter shit. holy crap i hate that guy.
OH BABY!
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