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Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban loves to speak his mind.
He continued that tradition recently when he gave an interview to the Boston Herald while his team was in town to play the Celtics. His main centered around the state of basketball itself compared to the NFL.
Cuban feels basketball is a sport better suited for future generations, per Steve Bulpett of the Herald.
“There’s a confluence of a couple of things,” Cuban said. “No. 1, our demographic keeps on getting younger. The NFL and baseball, they keep on getting older. And I think what we’re doing with (the video game) NBA 2K is brilliant. And in the bigger scheme of things in terms of building fans for the future, what do you want your kids to play?
Cuban may be on to something here. Players in the NBA feel more accessible because they are constantly on social media sites like Twitter and Snapchat, and the NBA as a league generally has no problem with the public making GIFs and memes out of its content.
But NFL players aren't as front-facing, and they are also less inclined to speak out in social issues, whereas NBA players are encouraged by their coaches and commissioner Adam Silver to do so.
Plus, the NBA has never had any problem with concussions like the NFL does.
It seems as though things are trending the NBA's way. What do you think?
