NBA "Ring Culture" is really Banana Boat Culture

There is no ring culture in the modern NBA. Magic and Jordan and Bird had ring culture.. Ring culture was always about winning rings for your team, for your city. You were competing to win more rings than other teams and more rings than past team players. Kobe Bryant had rain culture. She was trying to win more rings than magic , shaq and other all time Lakers . Now guys like Bob Harry and Steve Kerr were able to be roll players on multiple championship teams, but that hasn’t really changed ring culture. What happened is Jordan won 6, and people start looking Now let me back up and I’m gonna throw two guys under the bus so that you fully understand that what I say after that is going to be backing the bus up over them again. Steph Curry saved the NBA because Lebron and KD for being the 2 greatest players of their generation by far, they have very little Charisma. Steph’s influence on the game is all on the court. He has changed the game and it has been a lot of fun for fans to cheer him doing it. The lasting impact of KD and Lebron will be off the court and it has not been fun for fans. People think Lebron and KD have pioneered Ring Culture. They haven’t. They have pioneered banana boat culture at the nba level. College has always been about recruiting the best players together on one team. AAU has been explicitly about top players teaming up together. Only in the NBA where there was a draft was it a different mentality. Lebron did his decision show so that he could have what he missed not going to college. The justification for banana boat super teams became rebranding it as “ring future.” And so when KD decided if you can’t beat ‘‘em join ‘‘em and went to OKC he cited ring culture as his justification.