Now that Paul George broke his leg playing basketball, I expect the following.
1. No more basketball jumps. Sorry athletes, nobody needs to jump to score
2. Sometimes players crash into others, running and dribbling will be banned
3. If you insist on jumping, then you must replace the court with a giant trampoline
4. Mayors Against Illegal Balls will continue attacking a sport they know nothing about
5. High Schools and colleges will ban basketball teams
6. The NBA will be known as the ball lobby
7. The basketball industry will be sued often for player’s mistakes and injuries
8. If you want to carry a ball, you’ll need to be fingerprinted and take a 10-hour class about the rights and responsibilities of carrying balls. Assuming your state is ball friendly.
9. Michael Moore will demand pictures of basketball victims be posted publicly.
10. Obama will insist that we’re the only industrialized nation where basketball is popular, and we’d be better off playing soccer.
11. Open ball carrying such as with balls slung over the shoulder on a net or the ball being hold by the hand will be prohibited. Perpetrators can expect to be tazered or worse.
So true!
One addition would be that even when people are legally openly carrying balls in a net slung across their back, they will still be harassed and arrested by police on trumped up charges of “rudely displaying a ball” or even tazered.
Excellent, I’ll rewrite that as “no open carry of balls” or something like that.”