Okay, we all love the sport. We love the roar of the crowd, the long bus rides with our team after a win, and the intensity of a one-point ball game. But enough about what we love; all we hear about is what we love. Let's talk about the hate. Because with anything that you are truly passionate about, there are probably even more things that you can't stand about it.
1. Girls who excessively roll their shorts up to make them shorter
Part of the game is the uniform honey, now wear those baggy shorts just like everyone else because, contrary to what you believe, no one wants to see that.
2. When they wear a shooter sleeve because they think they are an NBA player and not because they actually need it
Unless you are secretly Paul Pierce, I don't want to see it.
3. Excessive grunting under the basket
We get it, its a mess under there, we heard you from the other side of the court, now calm down.
4. The "it was all ball, ref" person
It clearly wasn't all ball so please stop saying that after every time you foul.
5. Floppers
You're not going to get the cal by acting like a washed-up fish. Please just play the game! Because everyone hates you right now.
6. The girls who curl their hair and load up on the make up for away games
Don't even get me started on this. It's basketball, a sport where you sweat. It's not a beauty contest
7. The 5 am Saturday practices after a bad showing the night before
Literal death...
8. Four words: hit the end line
Okay, I take it back ... this is literal death.
9. The people who sit out the rest of the game with a paper cut and you're out there playing with no ACL and three bruised ribs
Man up, please.
10. The person who literally gets hurt every single game
Okay, some people are injury prone but nine times out of ten they just want the attention, and guess what? I ain't got time for your games. So, get up please.
11. The one person who never washes their uniform
Is this a luck thing or something? Because this isn't baseball, where rolling in the dirt is a thing ... this is an indoor sport, so why is your uniform disgusting?
12. When the cheerleaders, band or music don't help pump you up enough in warm-ups
You had one job...
13. That annoying parent who has to talk to the coach after every game
Let the coaches coach, please.
14. When players bitch about not getting enough playing time
Well to be fair, maybe you just really suck. At least you're on the team.
15. The player who is only on the team because he is 6'7" and not because of actual ability
Like, should I congratulate your parents after every game you play for giving you that giant DNA, or what?
16. Basically any ref who ever lived
Even if the ref is your dad, during the game, everyone is the enemy.
17. Jersey grabbers
Umm hello, move your feet instead of trying to grab on to me just so you can keep up.
18. The coach who argues every call, even when it's completely obvious it was the right call
Okay, let's be honest. When it's your coach it's okay, but if it's the other team's? Oh man, oh man.
19. Smack talk
It's only okay when I do it.
20. Parent coaches
Nothing is worse than when your coach is one of the player's parents. Even when they say favorites isn't a thing, it is.
Even with this list of completely annoying moments, we still love the sport. I wish I knew how I managed not to rip people's hair out when they did some of these things to me and I also question myself as to how I survived the endless amounts of killers we ran. But looking back at it, the years I played basketball were some of the best years of my life and I wouldn't change all the early morning practices, sucky refs, and coach's pets for anything.
