I hear this a lot, and I just don't understand this mentality. The players are human beings, only caring about while they benefit your team (or not), seems so crass, regardless of whether or not you care about the NBA.
He didn't have a great year but I wish him nothing but success. I don't think for one minute that he didn't try or he was just biding his time here. I think he suffered from a lack of team talent and unbalanced roster.
Lots of guys tell fans they don’t matter, shut up and watch. Then many NBA players treat common people like absolute trash.
I don’t know any of these guys personally. They don’t care about me, and I don’t really think about them. I watch UK basketball, and I’m not really into the NBA. I don’t see anything wrong with not caring either way when they leave the campus.
I don’t wish them harm, and I want UK players to do well generally, but modern players are very unlikable, and it’s made it harder and harder to care.
The guys that return to UK (Sky Walker etc) I do care. Genuinely nice players who value UK fans and aren’t self centered guys, I care more. But really, the idea that I need to consider them on a basis other than basketball just doesn’t make sense.
I think the guys who push this idea the hardest are very political, and since they usually agree with the direction young black players are pushed, they want them supported to a weird degree. I’m not involved in ideology, but I generally disagree with these guys so supporting them and their efforts is also something I’m not going to do.