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You could say on the court, these are the best days in the history of NBA. So why isn’t the world singing the praise of the NBA?
You could say on the court, these are the best days in the history of NBA. So why isn’t the world singing the praise of the NBA?
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2009-04-26
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You could say on the court, these are the best days in the history of NBA. So why isn’t the world singing the praise of the NBA? Why isn’t today’s NBA outperforming the NFL, NASCAR, and Major League of Baseball (MLB), all of which have been rocked by scandals large and small over the last few years? Simple because today’s NBA scares the white people.
The NBA stands at the dead-center intersection of two rampant social dynamics: the ascendancy of hip-hop culture and 21st-century marketing’s sworn duty to easily definable demographic group. Break yourself into generalized demographic qualities: gender, age, race, economic class. There is full range of music, TV shows, movies, and website explicitly designed to keep you warm and toasty in your comfort zone, free from sharp edges.
The NBA as it stands today has plenty of sharp edges and has a serious image problem; more than any other sports. For years, whites make up a majority of fan base, blacks make up a majority of players. And those players have benefited from ever-upward-spiraling paychecks, they’ve exercised their influence’ to shape the sight of the game around them in their own image.
But the NBA is still all about improvisation, artistry, jazz, poetry on the way to and above the rim. And while we appreciated the artistry in and of itself, the fact that we can’t do it puts many fans at some kind small, but measurable emotional distance from the game. For the white audience, the skill divide one thing. There always been players that could do things the rest of us couldn’t. What’s freaking white Americans out is the way NBA is embracing every element’ of hip-hop culture—the music, the fashion, the attitude, everything...
Many events, stories hurt NBA, cementing its lawless-blacks image in observers’ minds. Referring to the word "thug", that’s operative in short-handing the new NBA culture, as many observers noted. "Thug" was so-opted by black culture sometime during the Tupac Era. When people slag NBA’ players as "thug", it’s good bet they’re not taking about Adam Morris or J.J. Redic. It’s absolutely a racial tag.
The NBA, more than any other sports entity, has potential to be a bridge between cultures, a way to bring both sides together in cheering some best athletes of any color. It’s already produced Jordan, the most widely known athlete in history, and it’s gaining ground fast on soccer as the world’s best known sport. But it’s fragile indeed, with fans in colors viewing basketball as a zero-sum game, where every stereotypically black or white culture apparently forces out it’s ethic opposite. But with serious image problems, another slat falls out of the bridge. And it’s not hard to imagine a time when nobody will be interested in crossing over.
选项
A、NFL, NASCAR, MLB are better than NBA.
B、Because of the racialism in NBA.
C、The NBA today has a serious image problem.
D、White people don’t like NBA games.
答案
C
解析
第一段第二句:So why isn’t the world is singing the praise of the NBA?…Because today’s NBA scares the white people.文章说的理由是NBA吓到白人了,实际上就是其形象问题吓到了白人,结合下文尤其是第三段第一句The NBA as it stands today has plenty of edges and has a serious image problem可知C正确。文章说NBA吓到白人,但并没有说白人不喜欢NBA比赛,排除D;文中的rocked是"被…困扰"的意思,由"为什么现今的NBA就不能超越那些近几年被大大小小丑闻困扰的NFL,NASCAR和MLB?"并不能得出"NFL、NASCAR、MLB比NBA好"的结论,可以排除A。文中提到黑人和白人在NBA文化上的冲突,但并未提到种族主义,排除B。
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