Remember the NBA of yester-year? The one that valued a true center and a clean hook shot. The gritty one where people threw punches with intention because winning was so deep in their souls they would literally fight for it. The NBA that didn't have arenas pumped full of in-game music, and hype men, and a billion tv timeouts.
Remember when Larry Bird would play until he couldn't move? When Bill Laimbeer was an actual villain, not just a "dirty player". Remember when Michael Jordan played no matter what, medical staff and "flu-like symptoms" be damned!
Sometimes it's easy to become jaded.