My biggest regret is a generalized regret. After a player retires, I wish that I had watched them more when they played. I feel like I kind of take it for granted when a player is doing it every night 82 times a year. I don't have the time or the patience to watch anyone that much. Once they are gone though, I wish that I had watched them.
Not me, I was a huge Shaq fan especially during the Laker years. He would have been my #1 choice of any player’s career to be able to play. How fun it would be just crushing guys every game for 15 years.
My two biggest basketball regrets: 1) I was watching the Pacers and Pistons on November 19, 2004 and turned it off a little after halftime because my girlfriend and I had early plans the next day. It wasn't until later the next night that we were watching TV and I saw that I missed the Malice at the Palace. I mean, I could have watched that unfold live... 2) My wife and I had just gotten married and were getting ready to go to meet some friends for dinner during the playoffs. The Bulls were playing and it was late in the fourth quarter, like two minutes left, and I told her we couldn't leave because the game wasn't over. She gives me the look and I say, "but it's only two minutes and then we can go." She's not a sports fan so didn't know that those two minutes would take twenty. She's also not stupid so I haven't ever been able to use that argument again and I regret that I wasted it on a bullshit playoff game.
@@zw8596 Bro that’s basically what happened to me. I was watching that Pacers/Pistons game that night and changed the channel at halftime or commercial break (can’t remember when exactly) and ended up watching another program completely forgetting to change back to the game. The next day I saw the brawl on the news and was so pissed off that missed a historical moment on live TV lol
My biggest regret: passing up free tickets to see Kobe drop 81. Context... I'm a Spurs fan and hate the Lakers, Rockets, Mavs and Thunder. I was in LA for work when one of my buddies said "bro I got an extra ticket to the game... wife is sick... want to go?" and I said, "appreciate it man but F- the Lakers!" We both laughed, I went out to get dinner drinks and missed out on a historic performance.
Unless you overheard Kobe say to his teammates and coaches “Hey guys, let me put on a clinic tonight. Ok?” That’s a game you can never really anticipate, tho.
For sure. I think their beef even divided the fandom at that time to a certain extent... were you a Shaq guy, or a Kobe guy? I was the Kobe guy, but my dad was ALWAYS telling me I was wrong and that they had to feed Shaq 😂
They are lucky in the sense they almost lost to Portland in 2000 and Sacramento in 2002. They could easily have 4 rings if Karl Malone doesn't get hurt in 2004.
Agreed. They were very fortunate to even win the three they got. They maxed out and then some with their controversial 3-peat. Probably the lowest IQ dynasty I can ever remember. Jackson knows this too, it's why he always avoided those Jazz squads from 2000 to 2002. Shaq n Kobe struggled against the Jazz.
As a near 40 year old life long Chicago sports fan, I feel the same way about Pippen as you do about Shaq. I started watching the Bulls religiously during the 92-93 season and of course it was all about Jordan. The the next year he abruptly retired and the Bulls had an amazing season, and I went to my first Bulls game that season, watching the Bulls blow out the Hawks at old Chicago Stadium. I remember watching Pippen go off in the All Star game with his red shoes and win the All Star MVP. And yet, the moment MJ came back late in the '95 season, it was as if everything I had just witnessed Pippen do over the past two years was erased and it was all about Jordan again. I was too young to appreciate defense, facilitating, and all of the other less flashy things that go into winning.
I’m right there w/ u bro. What’s crazy is that when I used to play NBA Live 95+, whenever I created a player, they always mimicked Pip’s skills. Pippen wasn’t as appreciated like MJ, but MJ himself has said there’s no MJ at this magnitude w/ Pip. Scottie is also my frat brother, though we’ve never met. Hoping I can meet him in person like I’ve done w/ other sports legends who r my frat brothers to give him his flowers.
My biggest basketball regret probably has nothing to do with the NBA but more so my own personal regret. When I was young, I wanted nothing more than to dunk a basketball. I was 16 when I first achieved this goal. Standing at 5'8", I was proud of myself. My biggest regret was that I just stopped playing ball altogether... Don't ever give up on your dreams. Work hard enough, and you might just achieve it.
Agreed. A core memory is a family member telling me to "focus on something more realistic", which just crushed my hoop dreams as a kid. RARELY do you hear someone regretting trying their best to achieve a dream. Instead you hear people saying all the time that they regret not striving for their dream when they had the chance.
@jonnyarnett My philosophy now is that you only live once. You only get to make as much noise and ripples in this crazy life before it's all over. Kobe taught me (albeit later on in life) to give it your all when you're doing something. No matter what it is. I'll reiterate. If you're a young person or just any person with a dream watching this video. DO NOT GIVE UP ON YOUR DREAMS. Anyone who tells you to focus on more realistic goals aren't dreamers. Johnny, you'll get to 1 million subs within the next 2 - 4 years. I believe it.
I went to sleep early before Ray Allen hit the 3 in game of the 2013 finals. I was in middle school at the time and had to wake up early the next day and thought the game was over.
Excellent video, Sir. That Kobe Final Game story was BRUTAL. My guess is, and I hope I am right, that you were able to see The Mamba a few times in his career. I was able to see him only twice. I live in Florida. I went to the '09 Finals Game 4 and, believe it or not, the other game I went to was the Matt Barnes ball fake game the next season. I was always a Lakers fan since the mis 80's, and then a HUGE Kobe fan. His drive and determination has always been inspirational. I feel like I appreciated Shaq a lot more when he was in Orlando. He came off as much more freakish early on with his combination of size, speed, and athleticism. Obviously, he was still more than great when he got to LA but he got a lot bigger, fast. I am not sure Shaq ever had the best work ethic when it came to basketball but when Kobe showed up his relentless pursuit of basketball greatness only made Shaq's questionable work ethic look very much worse. Do not misunderstand, Shaq's greatness cannot be overstated for that 3 year run, but he was a different player by then. Almost all size and power. Much less finesse and athleticism, although he could still surprise you with a move from time to time. As you said, so much of what Shaq did by then was a Shaq post-up and a massive dunk (he was a Great passer out of the Post as well). The LSU-Orlando Shaq was something different.
Never been to an NBA game, but watching Kobe's final game on tv with friends is glorious. I don't think it will be the same impact paying $700 or even $100 to watch in the nosebleeds surrounded by complete strangers, buying expensive food, and getting through traffic.
My biggest regret: I’m from Mike D’Antoni’s hometown, and happened to attend church with his old high school basketball coach. Every year Mike gave him tickets to come see his team play in charlotte. My senior year was 2012-13, or the last year of Kobe’s prime, and he was coaching my Lakers. Mike’s coach, invited me at church to go watch the 12-13 Lakers play in Charlotte with him. I had made a prior commitment and couldn’t go.
I was the exact opposite with the Lakers where I focused so much on Shaq and not as much on Kobe because I was low-key a Kobe hater because he was too similar to MJ. I regret that because I really overlooked his development into one of the greatest of all time and didn't really appreciate his talents until Shaq left. Have to agree with you on the Shaq/Wilt take. Wilt was dominant but Shaq was literally taking grown men's manhood on the court. I can't say anyone comes close when it comes to dominating the paint like that.
Great video, all of us have regrets. Mine is not watching the 73 wins Warriors games because "all they do is give the ball to those 2 guys and shoot 3s" 😂. I was a 90s stubborn fan back then.
I love that even when Jonny is making a opinion video he still gives nuance to his picks like with shaq and wilt who is dominant and in what sense so many people just say wilt is dominant and say it was his physical gifts but almost no one acknowledges that he played a finesse game along with being physically dominant which wilt himself admitted it probably costed him a couple times. Also Giannis isn't comparable at all to prime Lakers shaq at most an argument could be made for magic shaq when he was more slim but even then it's a stretch.
Great video, Jonny! All of your regrets are understandable. My biggest basketball regret is not watching Game 6 of the 1998 Finals. I was a kid (not a teen yet), but for some reason, I didn't see it. I regret that. I also regret not seeing Kobe and Tim Duncan's final games in Sacramento. While I'm a Kings fan, I came to admire Kobe and Duncan has been a player I've long liked. I wish I saw their last games in Sacramento. I like how you have different types of videos and this is a great way to connect with viewers. Happy Friday, Jonny! I hope you are having a wonderful day and wish you a nice weekend!
There wasn’t anyone like Shaq ever. Before or since. The most dominant physical force I’ve ever seen in any sport. Made all star 7 foot big men look like children. His 2000 season is one of the best of all time
My biggest basketball regret was not getting into basketball sooner. I will admit I was an intensely introverted kid who didn't like sports, but boy did that change with anime. Wish I got into this sport sooner.
I was born in 2000, and yes, I'm a Lakers fan. I guess my biggest basketball regret is not taking advantage of the NBA at the time that I was born. I could've watched all the greatest moments of the 2000's and 2010's in real time, but instead I got into basketball my senior year when I was 17-18. By then, Kobe had already retired, the Golden State Warriors had already gone 73-9, and the Cavs had already pulled off the biggest upset in sports history. Yep, I missed it all.
I promise you there will be so much more crazy shit in our lifetimes to watch, and a couple crazy things have already happened since you started watching - the Toronto Raptors title, Jokic's inhuman run for the past five years, that insane Olympics team in 2024 that's probably the swan song for Bron, KD and Steph. There's a whole hell of a lot more basketball left brother
@@MusicLover-my6fo There is no way you would’ve been able to fully grasp what was happening during your early years in the early 2000s so don’t regret it.
@@MusicLover-my6fo dude same here expect I only got into it 3 years ago and I'm from 93! Missed so much 😔 good thing we can go back but there nothing like watching in the moment
I feel your pain on the Kobe tickets..... I remember I had tickets to game 6 of the Bulls vs Celtics series in 09 for my Granddad's Bday..... But I traded them in for tickets to game 4 because I wasn't sure if the Bulls could take the defending Champs to 6 games ...... Huge mistake, we all know that game 6 ended up being that triple overtime classic..... And game 4 ended up being the worst game of the series as a Bulls fan, they got blew out that game, all though I did get to see Rose receive his Rookie of year award that game, still doesn't compare to the experience I missed out on from that epic game 6...... Still pisses me off till this day when I think about it......... Trading in those tickets is still one of the biggest regrets in my life lol 🤦🏾♂️😩
Hi Jonny. Interest video, I discovered that we have the same age 😅. By the way my biggest regret was lost the seven game between Cleveland and Golden State. I was with my ex and she wouldn't mind to watch the game with me but I missed up with the game time. When I turned on the tv the game had just ended. But actually my biggest regret was breaking up with her. Oh, how I regret...
My biggest regret is hating on Kobe through out his career. Being from Chicago and a Jordan fan , I hated the comparisons and only after he retired I began to get to know him and know his mentality and his drive and determination.
My biggest regret is not seeing the Bulls stay together for the entire 90s decade. Jordan retired, Grant went to Orlando, BJ got drafted in the expansion draft, and Krause broke up the team in '98. They had a chance to win 9 in a row.
My biggest basketball regret is no becoming a fan of the sport or the NBA until the age of 29. I could have experienced soooo much NBA history but convinced myself as a teenager i didnt like it.
My biggest regret was not going to more games. I live in Alaska. The chances of seeing even d1 college basketball is slim. But there was the time when washington (my team) came up came up for a game against baylor who eventually ranked no.1. The game featured jaden mcdaniels, davion mitchell, and isaiah Stewart. They used have the shootout also. Ive been to a few but now that its gone i wished i wouldve at least seen a few more.
Heeeeerrrree’s JONNY! I’d love a video where you make an all-time team of players that didn’t make the NBA’s official 75 list, that doesn’t include any currently active players. Or does. :D
It's interesting to hear this considering I'm 35 (well, technically I'll be 35 this month) and I started watching almost 30 years ago (1996 to be specific). I might actually be on the other side of the rode with the Kobe-Shaq thing. At the beginning, if anything, I was probably more of a Shaq guy. Loved Kobe, but in the 90s he was clearly not the star while Shaq was considered a candidate for best player in the league. I slowly became more of a Kobe guy as the years went by, and by the end of that "era", I was glad we were keeping Kobe instead of Shaq. Now, if I do have some sort of regret, is that I think I took the Kobe-Shaq combination for granted. In terms of basketball, I was born with it, so while I knew they were obviously special, I'm not sure if I could appreciate how really special they were. The whole memorabilia thing is interesting to hear. I'm not from the US really, and I didn't even have access to that kind of stuff, I didn't even have access to NBA jerseys for many years. I do wonder what would I've done. The story about Kobe's final game hurts. I was in Spain, I'm not rich by any means, but had I known that final game was gonna be that special, and for $100 the ticket, I kid you not, I would've flied to L.A. just to watch that game, because that's how special it was. My decision at the time though was "should I watch this game from this Laker team that sucks that starts at 4:30AM here when I have an exam at 8:00AM?" I was considering for a moment skipping it, but then I thought that even if he scored 15 points, I had seen all 20 years of his career playing for the team I like, from kid to adult... so yeah, I just had to watch it, and I thank god I chose to do so. As a whole, I haven't really had that many choices to regret or be thankful for because I barely had access to the NBA. I couldn't really choose to buy something or not, but of course there's a ton in terms of appreciating things more and the like. One that comes to mind is not appreciating Orlando T-Mac enough because I was an immature kid and saw him as Kobe's competition (and AI's who I was also a fan of) and for reasons that had nothing to to with T-Mac himself or his game, I was pretty much a hater (nowadays, T-Mac is one of my All-Time favorite players). I was actually kinda mad when he scored 62, and now I feel it's so stupid. I watched the game and instead of being in awe, I was mad (pretty sure he was the first perimeter player to score 60 since MJ at the time).
My biggest NBA basketball regret: In fall of 1995 I went to the Berto Center to hopefully get MJs autograph. I stood with a few others at the gate and watched as cars would come up, wait for it to open, and leave. Seemingly randomly, the gate opened without anyone pulling up. Then Jordan showed up in his Corvette and sped through. Gate closed. I was distraught I hadn't even had a chance to ask him and just saw him a couple feet away from me through his 'vette window. In the lot I watched Steve Kerr getting into his Cutlass Ciera. Unlike today, he wasn't well known, but I did know who he was since I was a giant Bulls fan. I opted not to wait for him and went back to my parents car. As we drove off, other kids were getting his autograph.
My biggest regret is not going to a game with Vince Carter before he retired. He's been my favorite player since he was at UNC (I even have the college jersey from that time). I went to my first NBA games around that time and wish I had made it happen.
In the summer of 2016 I was at a football camp going into my senior year of high school. Instead of giving us the night off, my head coach made the lineman attend a 7 on 7 game to support our skill position guys. The time was during the 2nd half of Game 7 of the 2016 Finals. I should’ve just skipped and stayed in and accepted a punishment, because I missed one of if not the greatest game of all time
Ouch. I was just jaw on the floor the whole fourth thinking is Cleveland actually going to beat these guys? I thought for sure the Warriors were going to blow them out when Draymond started hot from the three point line. Watching LeBron block Iguodala's layup might be the most exciting moment I have had as a fan watching a game not involving the Spurs.
Johnny, it's time you stop apologizing for making content. We tune to hear you bro, we tune into support you bro. You do so well, thank you for the entertainment and knowledge
I got a few regrets as an NBA fan. One of them was not going to a Nuggets home game one weekend I traveled to my hometown Denver for the first time in years. I was too focused on visiting family that I didn’t bring myself to shed out a couple hundred bucks from my wallet and go. It’s not too late now, but back then I was by myself with no kids. Today I’m married with two kids, and even though it would be a fun experience, I would have to spend way more money not on myself, but also on my whole family than if had done it 6 years ago. So yeah that’s one of my regrets lol P.S. I did make up for it by going to a Hornets game later that year and watching them beat the eventual champion Raptors on a buzzer beater. So I don’t feel all that bad lol
I another regret I have is missing out on 2006-2008 because my family and I moved out of the US for a couple years. It wasn’t really my fault since I didn’t really have a choice, but I missed out on so many great moments during that period, such as Dwyane Wade’s Jordan-esque Finals performance, LeBron James scoring 25 straight points against the Pistons, and the Celtics’ dominant 2008 season. I’m also mad that I missed Allen Iverson’s entire tenure with the Denver Nuggets.
I guess my regret relates to being a fan of the Nets. I was a New Jersey Nets fan growing up (favorite player Kerry Kittles). When I become a fan, I stick with the team no matter what (I'm an Oaklan Athletics fan for example; I know, it's tough). However, that doesn't apply if my team decides to move cities, which the Nets did. I decided I could switch teams and not feel like a bandwagon fan. I didn't and am still a Nets fan. The Nets continue to be awful (or plagued by injuries) and I could have picked a championship contender or a team with a bright future.
My biggest regret as a basketball fan has to be burning my lebron jerseys as a Cavs fan both times he left. He’s the greatest player in franchise history and literally setting fire to items my kids could cherish hurts me
I wrote a letter of congratulations to the Bulls team for their 1991 Championship. I included cards from the 1991 NBA Hoops set of the entire team, in duplicate, offering for them each to keep their card and asking them to please autograph the other and send it back. The only response I got was from MJ. The return envelope appeared to be hand addressed, 3 of the cards were autographed and a note "With the compliments of Michael Jordan" and the Jumpman logo. I have since lost track of those cards and the envelope. Should have taken way more care of them. That's my Basketball regret. People can say whatever they want about others being better than MJ, or him being a complete jerk, but from a roster of 12+, he was the only one to take the time to respond. MJ is my GOAT forever. Great video Jonny!
Massive Kobe fan, but never got to see him play 😭 AND I live in OC so la is right there. Boiled down to money as I graduated high school year he retired
I watch basketball as a team sport. This has made people clown me when I say a player who didn't have the stats was better than the player with the numbers. In recent memory, G1 Suns vs Clippers. Westbrook performance being a torn on KD and making the great play on Booker.
My biggest regret was quitting following the sport actively from late 00's to late 10's. I was really into the sport from late 80's as 10-year old kid thanks to my big-sis, who was pretty great in those standards, racking up several national championships and some national team appearences. Followed womens basketball, mens basketball both around Europe and NBA really closely and also some NCAA. By the time Hanno Möttölä retired from NBA and Lauri Markkanen emerged as an NBA, i kinda lost track and interest only watching some Finnish NT-games. Around the time we had no coverage here from NBA and our national team kinda sucked too. But damn the sport is great, although not a particular fan of how NBA is being played with all the travelling, carrying and charging. I did miss out on a lot.
I remember being in elementary school & I had raised enough money for the school fundraising event (like asking people to buy popcorn & cookies) to get nosebleed tickets to a Pistons game. The kids that raised enough money got to sit courtside on the floor as the players warmed up, & it was awesome. However I regret not asking anyone on the team for an autograph when they finished, & distinctly remember seeing Chauncey Billups, & Allen Iverson head back into the tunnel.
I was young and didn't have the means financially... but I regret never seeing MJ play. Especially being from Milwaukee (Midwest) where u easily could've made it happen one way or another AT LEAST ONCE! 🏀
Thank you Jonny! My basketball regret personally would be not playing basketball regularly with friends or shooting some shots on my own for fun. My NBA basketball regret is being a LeBron fan early in his career with the Cavs and again with the Cavs as I should have known what type of person he really is and why everyone hates him. Also, Adam Sliver being a commissioner should also be a regret as well.
@ just his political stance without knowing the context, being LeGM, taking a random week to get his PEDs, being lazy on defense now these days, allaying gloating himself as the goat, and being virus to his team while Rich Paul is the cancer tumor.
my biggest basketball regrets: 1) i’ll never know how good basketball would’ve been if Len Bias lived 2) i’ll never truly know how great Wilt Chamberlain was (imagine if they tracked steals and blocks sooner) 3) i never got to experience a prime Michael Jordan live
My biggest regret was not apprecite Dirk. IDK if it was because he was euro, but I love KG (obviously since I was a Wolves fan), Duncan, Webber, Rasheed Wallace, etc. It wasn't until the later years that I look back and realize just how freaking good Dirkw was. The best shooting big of all time and it isn't even close.
My biggest regret, as a teen, was not attempting more to watch Jordan in the mid-late 80s, before the Piston Bad Boys 2 championships. Being in Australia in the mid 80s, watching footage was nearly impossible (we had no cable TV or nearly no games on free-to-air TV at all), but I had friends with US connections and I didn't sit/insist/organise to watch those games. All we really had on regular TV were "maybe" a once-a-week random game, and midnight tape-delay replays of the NBA finals (when Magic and/or Larry were involved).
My moms story might be worse than yours, her and my step dad went to the game Kobe retired his jerseys. After my stepdads friend Corey Blunt (yes the nba player I hope I spelled that right told them to meet at this restaurant. They pull up and see the fancy cars there because that’s where all the stars were going dressed in fancy clothes and my parents had on a kobe jersey and jeans. So they ended up going home because they didnt want to stand out, turns out he was sitting right next to Kobe and was going to introduce them. Her heart was broken shes a bigger fan than me about Kobe and thats my goat
I went to Kobe’s last game with my sister, who passed in 2018. She’s buried at the same cemetery where Kobe was laid to rest. Makes looking back on that day just that much more surreal.
That third regret you had there. Same with me. I had a feeling he was going to retire but my friend told me to not get them tickets since the jazz were a bad team and he didn’t feel Kobe would retire that year. I hate him for that. We missed out on Kobe’s final game because I listened to him 🤣
Wish i could've seen Dirk Nowitzki play in person just once. Living in south Texas was/is easy to go see Spurs games, but i wish i could've gone to just one Mavs game from 2003-2011ish.
That I didn't get into the sport sooner. I've never really been a big sports guy, and I didn't pay any attention to basketball until the Suns made it to the finals in 1993. I was a kid in the 80s and I could have seen the Lakers and Celtics rivalry as it was happening, but just I didn't have any interest until much later. (Though that raises the question, would Barkley still be my favorite player if I'd gotten into it earlier, and who could answer that.)
Similar to me, i completely missed Kobe last game. It was the same night as warriors potential 73rd win. As a Heat fan I was 50/50 on either game to watch, and I chose the warriors game as it seemed more likely to be historic. Kobe hadn’t been playing well. This will haunt me forever 🐺
One of my biggest regrets is not appreciating Allen Iverson more. He was always presented in a negative manner and I went with it while I was young. But now he’s an inspiration to so many.
I think my biggest regret as an NBA fan was hating the Celtics in the 80s so much I really didn't appreciate how amazing they were and would sometimes skip their games when they were on CBS and TBS. I was a huge fan of Magic and always rooted for Philly, Detroit, Atlanta, or Milwaukee too any time they faced Bird's Celtics. They're now probably my favorite team to go back and watch old games from. Thankfully by my teens/early twenties I didn't make the same mistake with the Shaq & Kobe Lakers who I genuinely did hate as a bitter rival to my Spurs. But I didn't let that stop me from watching their games as a fan of the game and appreciating Shaq's post footwork, how much of an assassin Kobe was, Robert Horry and Derek Fisher being a couple of the greatest glue guys I have ever seen, etc. Since I went to school in LA during their threepeat I also got to take advantage of being able to watch every road game of theirs on KCAL as well as them being on NBC every weekend (couldn't afford cable as a student so missed most of the home games unless they were on NBC).
my biggest regret is losing - or had stolen - a bunch of autographs and trading cards i had in the late 60s/early 70s. i had so many classic cards: wilt, kareem (when he still went by lew alcindor), jerry west, elgin baylor, hondo, earl the pearl, connie hawkins, spencer haywood, walt bellamy, walt frazier, willis reed, ...
My biggest regret related to basketball is being to young and dumb and not taking care and keeping up with all the basketball cards my older brother gave me. He's 8yrs older than me and gave me a huge collection of basketball cards I can remember having MJ with the bulls, Scottie Pippen, Larry Johnson, Larry Bird, spud webb, Patrick Ewing, Penny Hardaway, Sam Cassell with the rockets, Chris Webber with the warriors and a shit ton more. I was 6yrs old when he gave me those cards and now I'm 34 and have no idea where they're at or what happened to them.
I don’t really regret anything so I’ll just share something that I wished happened that didn’t. I wish Kevin Durant’s shot in the 2021 ECSF Game 7 was a 3 instead of a 2. In the 2021 playoffs, I vividly remember Kevin Durant going off in the 2nd round against the bucks, including his 49 pt triple double in game 5. But for game 7, I was actually on vacation with my parents and all of us watched game 7. It was the best basketball experience of my life and all of us went crazy when KD hit that shot, only to realize that his foot was barely on the line. The bucks went on to win the game and the series in a bit of an anticlimactic OT and I was devastated and it kind of ruined the rest of the playoffs for me. If KD and the nets won that ring after Durant’s Achilles tear in 2019, it would’ve been perfect for me.
I think mine is having chosen a team to root for as a kid in the nba, where no one gives af about you, i didn't have the don't choose a team back then, but i went through the journey with it up and down already that's impossible to turn back now
In my case, being a Shaq guy who witnessed his dominance in '00-02, my biggest regret is I didn't appreciate Kobe until '08. How I'd wish I have appreciated him even more. When Mamba died, that't the time I fully appreciated his greatness. I shouldn't have taken him for granted when he's still playing 😢😢
Hornets tickets are real cheap and pretty close by. I’m annoyed I never saw LeBron before his Laker stint. The Cleveland (round two) years were when I was in college and broke so that wasn’t happening. But really sad I never saw the Heat big 3 back when attacking the rim was the game.
Never going to a Bulls game to see MJ even though Chicago was only a few hours away. I was in my early 20s, no wife or kids and I had minimal bills. Me and my friend talk about this all the time. He's a year older than me but he was a big Jordan fan like I was. And we always look back and say why didn't we just go to a game or a few games. It's funny cuz at the time Chicago seemed far away but realistically like I said it was only a couple of hours. We could have road tripped it.
Not exactly related to basketball, but once, I refused to spend 150 GEL (about 80 USD) on the UEFA Super Cup match between Sevilla and Barcelona in the city I lived in at the time because I thought it was too much for a poor student like me. The match ended with the final score was 5-4, and my favorite player, Lionel Messi, scored two free kicks. I have never ever had another chance to see him play, even though I'm ready to pay 100-fold for another opportunity to do it.
As a long suffering Raptor, mine are: Vince leaving and the way he did so; Derozan having to be sacrificed to get Kawhi in (Derozan deserved to be part of our winning team); the management not doing everything they could to convince Kawhi to stay on after he literally won us the title; and I suppose whilst I'm being greedy, not having Muggsy and Hakeem repeat their previously outstanding levels during their time in Toronto haha (though in fairness Muggy was underrated as a Raptor and had a great partnership with VC)
My biggest NBA regret was never being able to go to a Vancouver Grizzlies game as a kid. I live near Vancouver. I would have loved to have watched Bulls or Wizards MJ, Shaq, Kobe, Iverson, Hill, McGrady, Carter etc come and visit my Grizzlies and torch us for 40+. But we would get the win at the end (Very unlikely).
My biggest regret was that my older cousin was the equipment manager for my hometown Chicago and he had tickets for the game when d rose hit the game winning shot against lebron and the Cavs and I chose to drive to my dads to spend time with him and my siblings and we watched the shot as I said I was supposed to be at that game and everyone was mad at me for not going to the game 😅
My biggest basketball regret is not buying a ticket to an event at my local bookstore that included a signed copy of one of the books that Kobe wrote. The event took place in the Fall of 2019.
Hi Jonny, great vid. Just wanted your thoughts on the 2021 lakers, if AD didn't go down with the injury in the first round, was there a possibility of another laker dynasty ?
4.6 mil for a signed card is just insane. I’m sure lots of people make a career out of just getting as many players to sign as many sports memorabilia as possible, just to be sold to someone with deep pockets later.
My biggest regrets that I came close to meeting Michael Jordan. My mom and her boyfriend took me to see a baseball game in Jacksonville. Michael was playing for the Birmingham barons. I was about to get his autograph from the bullpen. My mom yanked my ass away from the goat … I was embarrassed and feeling all the type of ways. I had his baseball and basketball cards ready to be sign and camera ready.
I'm a Jordan and Bulls fan but I saw that Kobe became something else in latter his carrer. I saw a Jersey from Kobe for R$ 100 in Adidas store in Rio, and most of The jerseys were R$ 200. I though of buying it but also my finances were down. So I said "next day", it was in the middleof his last season. Just after that, happened Kobe's Last game and it went back to R$ 200. Then He retired, didn't have The money either, came The accident and I lost The opportunity to have a memory.
Am a 76ers fan I had a very low chance at seeing Joel Embiid score 70 points in person The Story I was at restaurant with my family and after I was done eating I noticed a little box for a game against the spurs but it was late on a Monday night but if won you get to go to game I didn’t even enter it because I was busy during the day and Embiid scored 70 points
What's one of your biggest Basketball regrets?
Not playing in high school
I wish I would’ve watched Larry Bird play before he retired. I thought I had more time
Not training more in high school 😭
Not starting to Watch the Nba sooner
My biggest regret is a generalized regret. After a player retires, I wish that I had watched them more when they played. I feel like I kind of take it for granted when a player is doing it every night 82 times a year. I don't have the time or the patience to watch anyone that much. Once they are gone though, I wish that I had watched them.
The story about Kobe’s final game is brutal😭
my biggest basketball regret is being a clippers fan
Klaw come back tomorrow
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Thats fair 😅
@@4pftay god i hope he doesnt rush things and get injured again
As a Hawks fan, I'm with you
The worlds biggest basketball regret is not inventing High Definition in time for Michael Jordan
Japan actually started the first HDTV satellite broadcasts in 1989, it took a long while for things to come together.
Technically we can AI upscale his games to something decent.
Personally i love that somewhat grainy footage in every sport.
Brings back those childhood memories.
There is high definition footage of Jordan playing basketball.
It’s actually not getting footage from wilts “100” point game
In your defense, I think of us took Shaq for granted. The best traditional big man we’ve had since him is Dwight Howard and he wasn’t even close.
Not me, I was a huge Shaq fan especially during the Laker years. He would have been my #1 choice of any player’s career to be able to play. How fun it would be just crushing guys every game for 15 years.
My two biggest basketball regrets: 1) I was watching the Pacers and Pistons on November 19, 2004 and turned it off a little after halftime because my girlfriend and I had early plans the next day. It wasn't until later the next night that we were watching TV and I saw that I missed the Malice at the Palace. I mean, I could have watched that unfold live...
2) My wife and I had just gotten married and were getting ready to go to meet some friends for dinner during the playoffs. The Bulls were playing and it was late in the fourth quarter, like two minutes left, and I told her we couldn't leave because the game wasn't over. She gives me the look and I say, "but it's only two minutes and then we can go." She's not a sports fan so didn't know that those two minutes would take twenty. She's also not stupid so I haven't ever been able to use that argument again and I regret that I wasted it on a bullshit playoff game.
@@zw8596 Bro that’s basically what happened to me. I was watching that Pacers/Pistons game that night and changed the channel at halftime or commercial break (can’t remember when exactly) and ended up watching another program completely forgetting to change back to the game. The next day I saw the brawl on the news and was so pissed off that missed a historical moment on live TV lol
My biggest regret: passing up free tickets to see Kobe drop 81. Context... I'm a Spurs fan and hate the Lakers, Rockets, Mavs and Thunder. I was in LA for work when one of my buddies said "bro I got an extra ticket to the game... wife is sick... want to go?" and I said, "appreciate it man but F- the Lakers!" We both laughed, I went out to get dinner drinks and missed out on a historic performance.
I would be pissed if that happened to me
@@wc4201 Even if I hated them I would’ve gone just to root against them lol
Unless you overheard Kobe say to his teammates and coaches “Hey guys, let me put on a clinic tonight. Ok?” That’s a game you can never really anticipate, tho.
Shaq & Kobe maxed out their talent together. Their personalities were polar opposites. They were lucky to have won 3 🏆 together.
For sure. I think their beef even divided the fandom at that time to a certain extent... were you a Shaq guy, or a Kobe guy? I was the Kobe guy, but my dad was ALWAYS telling me I was wrong and that they had to feed Shaq 😂
Weak finals comp and the refs also played into the lakers success in the early 2000’s , LA looked lost once Detroit became a threat
lucky? the other teams are lucky that they have beef.
They are lucky in the sense they almost lost to Portland in 2000 and Sacramento in 2002. They could easily have 4 rings if Karl Malone doesn't get hurt in 2004.
Agreed. They were very fortunate to even win the three they got. They maxed out and then some with their controversial 3-peat. Probably the lowest IQ dynasty I can ever remember. Jackson knows this too, it's why he always avoided those Jazz squads from 2000 to 2002. Shaq n Kobe struggled against the Jazz.
As a near 40 year old life long Chicago sports fan, I feel the same way about Pippen as you do about Shaq. I started watching the Bulls religiously during the 92-93 season and of course it was all about Jordan. The the next year he abruptly retired and the Bulls had an amazing season, and I went to my first Bulls game that season, watching the Bulls blow out the Hawks at old Chicago Stadium. I remember watching Pippen go off in the All Star game with his red shoes and win the All Star MVP. And yet, the moment MJ came back late in the '95 season, it was as if everything I had just witnessed Pippen do over the past two years was erased and it was all about Jordan again. I was too young to appreciate defense, facilitating, and all of the other less flashy things that go into winning.
I’m right there w/ u bro. What’s crazy is that when I used to play NBA Live 95+, whenever I created a player, they always mimicked Pip’s skills. Pippen wasn’t as appreciated like MJ, but MJ himself has said there’s no MJ at this magnitude w/ Pip.
Scottie is also my frat brother, though we’ve never met. Hoping I can meet him in person like I’ve done w/ other sports legends who r my frat brothers to give him his flowers.
My biggest basketball regret probably has nothing to do with the NBA but more so my own personal regret. When I was young, I wanted nothing more than to dunk a basketball. I was 16 when I first achieved this goal. Standing at 5'8", I was proud of myself.
My biggest regret was that I just stopped playing ball altogether...
Don't ever give up on your dreams. Work hard enough, and you might just achieve it.
Agreed. A core memory is a family member telling me to "focus on something more realistic", which just crushed my hoop dreams as a kid.
RARELY do you hear someone regretting trying their best to achieve a dream. Instead you hear people saying all the time that they regret not striving for their dream when they had the chance.
@jonnyarnett My philosophy now is that you only live once. You only get to make as much noise and ripples in this crazy life before it's all over. Kobe taught me (albeit later on in life) to give it your all when you're doing something. No matter what it is.
I'll reiterate. If you're a young person or just any person with a dream watching this video. DO NOT GIVE UP ON YOUR DREAMS. Anyone who tells you to focus on more realistic goals aren't dreamers.
Johnny, you'll get to 1 million subs within the next 2 - 4 years. I believe it.
@@jonnyarnett
Exactly right. Always chase you dreams
I went to sleep early before Ray Allen hit the 3 in game of the 2013 finals. I was in middle school at the time and had to wake up early the next day and thought the game was over.
Excellent video, Sir. That Kobe Final Game story was BRUTAL. My guess is, and I hope I am right, that you were able to see The Mamba a few times in his career. I was able to see him only twice. I live in Florida. I went to the '09 Finals Game 4 and, believe it or not, the other game I went to was the Matt Barnes ball fake game the next season. I was always a Lakers fan since the mis 80's, and then a HUGE Kobe fan. His drive and determination has always been inspirational.
I feel like I appreciated Shaq a lot more when he was in Orlando. He came off as much more freakish early on with his combination of size, speed, and athleticism. Obviously, he was still more than great when he got to LA but he got a lot bigger, fast. I am not sure Shaq ever had the best work ethic when it came to basketball but when Kobe showed up his relentless pursuit of basketball greatness only made Shaq's questionable work ethic look very much worse. Do not misunderstand, Shaq's greatness cannot be overstated for that 3 year run, but he was a different player by then. Almost all size and power. Much less finesse and athleticism, although he could still surprise you with a move from time to time. As you said, so much of what Shaq did by then was a Shaq post-up and a massive dunk (he was a Great passer out of the Post as well). The LSU-Orlando Shaq was something different.
That i cant see how would basketball history look like with Len Bias
Never been to an NBA game, but watching Kobe's final game on tv with friends is glorious. I don't think it will be the same impact paying $700 or even $100 to watch in the nosebleeds surrounded by complete strangers, buying expensive food, and getting through traffic.
My biggest regret:
I’m from Mike D’Antoni’s hometown, and happened to attend church with his old high school basketball coach. Every year Mike gave him tickets to come see his team play in charlotte. My senior year was 2012-13, or the last year of Kobe’s prime, and he was coaching my Lakers. Mike’s coach, invited me at church to go watch the 12-13 Lakers play in Charlotte with him. I had made a prior commitment and couldn’t go.
I was the exact opposite with the Lakers where I focused so much on Shaq and not as much on Kobe because I was low-key a Kobe hater because he was too similar to MJ. I regret that because I really overlooked his development into one of the greatest of all time and didn't really appreciate his talents until Shaq left.
Have to agree with you on the Shaq/Wilt take. Wilt was dominant but Shaq was literally taking grown men's manhood on the court. I can't say anyone comes close when it comes to dominating the paint like that.
Great video, all of us have regrets. Mine is not watching the 73 wins Warriors games because "all they do is give the ball to those 2 guys and shoot 3s" 😂. I was a 90s stubborn fan back then.
I watched that game & kobe last game,, I kept flicking back and forth every 3 mins
I love that even when Jonny is making a opinion video he still gives nuance to his picks like with shaq and wilt who is dominant and in what sense so many people just say wilt is dominant and say it was his physical gifts but almost no one acknowledges that he played a finesse game along with being physically dominant which wilt himself admitted it probably costed him a couple times. Also Giannis isn't comparable at all to prime Lakers shaq at most an argument could be made for magic shaq when he was more slim but even then it's a stretch.
No particular feedback for this video other than this is the BEST NBA channel on TH-cam. Well done again.
Great video, Jonny! All of your regrets are understandable.
My biggest basketball regret is not watching Game 6 of the 1998 Finals. I was a kid (not a teen yet), but for some reason, I didn't see it. I regret that.
I also regret not seeing Kobe and Tim Duncan's final games in Sacramento. While I'm a Kings fan, I came to admire Kobe and Duncan has been a player I've long liked. I wish I saw their last games in Sacramento.
I like how you have different types of videos and this is a great way to connect with viewers. Happy Friday, Jonny! I hope you are having a wonderful day and wish you a nice weekend!
There wasn’t anyone like Shaq ever. Before or since. The most dominant physical force I’ve ever seen in any sport. Made all star 7 foot big men look like children. His 2000 season is one of the best of all time
True.
My biggest basketball regret was not getting into basketball sooner. I will admit I was an intensely introverted kid who didn't like sports, but boy did that change with anime. Wish I got into this sport sooner.
Great vid Jonny 👊
I was born in 2000, and yes, I'm a Lakers fan. I guess my biggest basketball regret is not taking advantage of the NBA at the time that I was born. I could've watched all the greatest moments of the 2000's and 2010's in real time, but instead I got into basketball my senior year when I was 17-18. By then, Kobe had already retired, the Golden State Warriors had already gone 73-9, and the Cavs had already pulled off the biggest upset in sports history. Yep, I missed it all.
I promise you there will be so much more crazy shit in our lifetimes to watch, and a couple crazy things have already happened since you started watching - the Toronto Raptors title, Jokic's inhuman run for the past five years, that insane Olympics team in 2024 that's probably the swan song for Bron, KD and Steph. There's a whole hell of a lot more basketball left brother
@@MusicLover-my6fo There is no way you would’ve been able to fully grasp what was happening during your early years in the early 2000s so don’t regret it.
@@MusicLover-my6fo dude same here expect I only got into it 3 years ago and I'm from 93! Missed so much 😔 good thing we can go back but there nothing like watching in the moment
I feel your pain on the Kobe tickets..... I remember I had tickets to game 6 of the Bulls vs Celtics series in 09 for my Granddad's Bday..... But I traded them in for tickets to game 4 because I wasn't sure if the Bulls could take the defending Champs to 6 games ...... Huge mistake, we all know that game 6 ended up being that triple overtime classic..... And game 4 ended up being the worst game of the series as a Bulls fan, they got blew out that game, all though I did get to see Rose receive his Rookie of year award that game, still doesn't compare to the experience I missed out on from that epic game 6...... Still pisses me off till this day when I think about it......... Trading in those tickets is still one of the biggest regrets in my life lol 🤦🏾♂️😩
The rookie memorabilia is such a hard thing to track if they’re going to be big or a bust
I regret having to inherit the Jazz fandom. We finish every season 32-50 or 50-32. There is no in between.
Hi Jonny. Interest video, I discovered that we have the same age 😅. By the way my biggest regret was lost the seven game between Cleveland and Golden State. I was with my ex and she wouldn't mind to watch the game with me but I missed up with the game time. When I turned on the tv the game had just ended. But actually my biggest regret was breaking up with her. Oh, how I regret...
Yes. You do love bonding with us and we appreciate it! ❤
My biggest regret is hating on Kobe through out his career. Being from Chicago and a Jordan fan , I hated the comparisons and only after he retired I began to get to know him and know his mentality and his drive and determination.
I din't know we're the same age bro. Greeeting from across the pond from Croatia!
My biggest regret is personally convincing Kevin Durant to join the Warriors. Totally ruined the league for a few years and that’s my bad.
Being a basketball fan since 2004, living in LA my entire life and never got to see kobe play in person not even ONCE
My biggest regret is not seeing the Bulls stay together for the entire 90s decade. Jordan retired, Grant went to Orlando, BJ got drafted in the expansion draft, and Krause broke up the team in '98. They had a chance to win 9 in a row.
my biggest basketball regrets getting into basketball media, being a lakers fan in today's era 💀
My biggest basketball regret is no becoming a fan of the sport or the NBA until the age of 29. I could have experienced soooo much NBA history but convinced myself as a teenager i didnt like it.
My biggest regret was not going to more games. I live in Alaska. The chances of seeing even d1 college basketball is slim. But there was the time when washington (my team) came up came up for a game against baylor who eventually ranked no.1. The game featured jaden mcdaniels, davion mitchell, and isaiah Stewart. They used have the shootout also. Ive been to a few but now that its gone i wished i wouldve at least seen a few more.
Shaq was a dancing bear. Great feet, brute strength. 1 of 1
I regret not seeing Kobe's final game live!
Heeeeerrrree’s JONNY! I’d love a video where you make an all-time team of players that didn’t make the NBA’s official 75 list, that doesn’t include any currently active players. Or does. :D
My biggest regret is not really getting into basketball until I was nearly 30 (About 5 years ago) I missed out on so much.
It's interesting to hear this considering I'm 35 (well, technically I'll be 35 this month) and I started watching almost 30 years ago (1996 to be specific).
I might actually be on the other side of the rode with the Kobe-Shaq thing. At the beginning, if anything, I was probably more of a Shaq guy. Loved Kobe, but in the 90s he was clearly not the star while Shaq was considered a candidate for best player in the league. I slowly became more of a Kobe guy as the years went by, and by the end of that "era", I was glad we were keeping Kobe instead of Shaq. Now, if I do have some sort of regret, is that I think I took the Kobe-Shaq combination for granted. In terms of basketball, I was born with it, so while I knew they were obviously special, I'm not sure if I could appreciate how really special they were.
The whole memorabilia thing is interesting to hear. I'm not from the US really, and I didn't even have access to that kind of stuff, I didn't even have access to NBA jerseys for many years. I do wonder what would I've done. The story about Kobe's final game hurts. I was in Spain, I'm not rich by any means, but had I known that final game was gonna be that special, and for $100 the ticket, I kid you not, I would've flied to L.A. just to watch that game, because that's how special it was. My decision at the time though was "should I watch this game from this Laker team that sucks that starts at 4:30AM here when I have an exam at 8:00AM?" I was considering for a moment skipping it, but then I thought that even if he scored 15 points, I had seen all 20 years of his career playing for the team I like, from kid to adult... so yeah, I just had to watch it, and I thank god I chose to do so.
As a whole, I haven't really had that many choices to regret or be thankful for because I barely had access to the NBA. I couldn't really choose to buy something or not, but of course there's a ton in terms of appreciating things more and the like. One that comes to mind is not appreciating Orlando T-Mac enough because I was an immature kid and saw him as Kobe's competition (and AI's who I was also a fan of) and for reasons that had nothing to to with T-Mac himself or his game, I was pretty much a hater (nowadays, T-Mac is one of my All-Time favorite players). I was actually kinda mad when he scored 62, and now I feel it's so stupid. I watched the game and instead of being in awe, I was mad (pretty sure he was the first perimeter player to score 60 since MJ at the time).
My biggest NBA basketball regret:
In fall of 1995 I went to the Berto Center to hopefully get MJs autograph. I stood with a few others at the gate and watched as cars would come up, wait for it to open, and leave.
Seemingly randomly, the gate opened without anyone pulling up. Then Jordan showed up in his Corvette and sped through. Gate closed.
I was distraught I hadn't even had a chance to ask him and just saw him a couple feet away from me through his 'vette window.
In the lot I watched Steve Kerr getting into his Cutlass Ciera. Unlike today, he wasn't well known, but I did know who he was since I was a giant Bulls fan.
I opted not to wait for him and went back to my parents car. As we drove off, other kids were getting his autograph.
My biggest regret is not going to a game with Vince Carter before he retired. He's been my favorite player since he was at UNC (I even have the college jersey from that time). I went to my first NBA games around that time and wish I had made it happen.
my regret was thinking the blazers were gonna win it in 2000....
In the summer of 2016 I was at a football camp going into my senior year of high school. Instead of giving us the night off, my head coach made the lineman attend a 7 on 7 game to support our skill position guys. The time was during the 2nd half of Game 7 of the 2016 Finals. I should’ve just skipped and stayed in and accepted a punishment, because I missed one of if not the greatest game of all time
Ouch. I was just jaw on the floor the whole fourth thinking is Cleveland actually going to beat these guys? I thought for sure the Warriors were going to blow them out when Draymond started hot from the three point line. Watching LeBron block Iguodala's layup might be the most exciting moment I have had as a fan watching a game not involving the Spurs.
My regret is not knowing that some crazy people would pay millions for some paper with a players face on it. I need to get them while I can
Johnny, it's time you stop apologizing for making content. We tune to hear you bro, we tune into support you bro. You do so well, thank you for the entertainment and knowledge
Not selling my signed Zion Williamson rookie card when it was going for $20k because now it’s only trending downward since he doesn’t even play 🤦🏽♂️
Oof! I feel bad for you on that one, but just know that I would’ve done the same thing :/
I got a few regrets as an NBA fan.
One of them was not going to a Nuggets home game one weekend I traveled to my hometown Denver for the first time in years. I was too focused on visiting family that I didn’t bring myself to shed out a couple hundred bucks from my wallet and go. It’s not too late now, but back then I was by myself with no kids. Today I’m married with two kids, and even though it would be a fun experience, I would have to spend way more money not on myself, but also on my whole family than if had done it 6 years ago. So yeah that’s one of my regrets lol
P.S. I did make up for it by going to a Hornets game later that year and watching them beat the eventual champion Raptors on a buzzer beater. So I don’t feel all that bad lol
I another regret I have is missing out on 2006-2008 because my family and I moved out of the US for a couple years. It wasn’t really my fault since I didn’t really have a choice, but I missed out on so many great moments during that period, such as Dwyane Wade’s Jordan-esque Finals performance, LeBron James scoring 25 straight points against the Pistons, and the Celtics’ dominant 2008 season. I’m also mad that I missed Allen Iverson’s entire tenure with the Denver Nuggets.
Shaq eats up the opposing team's center. Team's just get a center just to foul Shaq. This is how dominant he is! He is simply unstoppable.
I guess my regret relates to being a fan of the Nets. I was a New Jersey Nets fan growing up (favorite player Kerry Kittles). When I become a fan, I stick with the team no matter what (I'm an Oaklan Athletics fan for example; I know, it's tough). However, that doesn't apply if my team decides to move cities, which the Nets did.
I decided I could switch teams and not feel like a bandwagon fan. I didn't and am still a Nets fan. The Nets continue to be awful (or plagued by injuries) and I could have picked a championship contender or a team with a bright future.
My biggest regret as a basketball fan has to be burning my lebron jerseys as a Cavs fan both times he left. He’s the greatest player in franchise history and literally setting fire to items my kids could cherish hurts me
I wrote a letter of congratulations to the Bulls team for their 1991 Championship. I included cards from the 1991 NBA Hoops set of the entire team, in duplicate, offering for them each to keep their card and asking them to please autograph the other and send it back. The only response I got was from MJ. The return envelope appeared to be hand addressed, 3 of the cards were autographed and a note "With the compliments of Michael Jordan" and the Jumpman logo. I have since lost track of those cards and the envelope. Should have taken way more care of them. That's my Basketball regret.
People can say whatever they want about others being better than MJ, or him being a complete jerk, but from a roster of 12+, he was the only one to take the time to respond. MJ is my GOAT forever.
Great video Jonny!
wow that last kobe game story would haunt me forever also
Massive Kobe fan, but never got to see him play 😭 AND I live in OC so la is right there. Boiled down to money as I graduated high school year he retired
I watch basketball as a team sport. This has made people clown me when I say a player who didn't have the stats was better than the player with the numbers.
In recent memory, G1 Suns vs Clippers. Westbrook performance being a torn on KD and making the great play on Booker.
My biggest regret was quitting following the sport actively from late 00's to late 10's.
I was really into the sport from late 80's as 10-year old kid thanks to my big-sis, who was pretty great in those standards, racking up several national championships and some national team appearences. Followed womens basketball, mens basketball both around Europe and NBA really closely and also some NCAA.
By the time Hanno Möttölä retired from NBA and Lauri Markkanen emerged as an NBA, i kinda lost track and interest only watching some Finnish NT-games. Around the time we had no coverage here from NBA and our national team kinda sucked too.
But damn the sport is great, although not a particular fan of how NBA is being played with all the travelling, carrying and charging. I did miss out on a lot.
I remember being in elementary school & I had raised enough money for the school fundraising event (like asking people to buy popcorn & cookies) to get nosebleed tickets to a Pistons game. The kids that raised enough money got to sit courtside on the floor as the players warmed up, & it was awesome. However I regret not asking anyone on the team for an autograph when they finished, & distinctly remember seeing Chauncey Billups, & Allen Iverson head back into the tunnel.
I was young and didn't have the means financially... but I regret never seeing MJ play. Especially being from Milwaukee (Midwest) where u easily could've made it happen one way or another AT LEAST ONCE! 🏀
My boy, Johnny dumped that girl the very next day😂
Thank you Jonny! My basketball regret personally would be not playing basketball regularly with friends or shooting some shots on my own for fun. My NBA basketball regret is being a LeBron fan early in his career with the Cavs and again with the Cavs as I should have known what type of person he really is and why everyone hates him. Also, Adam Sliver being a commissioner should also be a regret as well.
What did I miss with Lebron?
@ just his political stance without knowing the context, being LeGM, taking a random week to get his PEDs, being lazy on defense now these days, allaying gloating himself as the goat, and being virus to his team while Rich Paul is the cancer tumor.
@@dexscout everything
my biggest basketball regrets:
1) i’ll never know how good basketball would’ve been if Len Bias lived
2) i’ll never truly know how great Wilt Chamberlain was (imagine if they tracked steals and blocks sooner)
3) i never got to experience a prime Michael Jordan live
I regret not being able to see Dirk play live in his prime 😢
My biggest regret was not apprecite Dirk. IDK if it was because he was euro, but I love KG (obviously since I was a Wolves fan), Duncan, Webber, Rasheed Wallace, etc. It wasn't until the later years that I look back and realize just how freaking good Dirkw was. The best shooting big of all time and it isn't even close.
My biggest regret, as a teen, was not attempting more to watch Jordan in the mid-late 80s, before the Piston Bad Boys 2 championships.
Being in Australia in the mid 80s, watching footage was nearly impossible (we had no cable TV or nearly no games on free-to-air TV at all), but I had friends with US connections and I didn't sit/insist/organise to watch those games.
All we really had on regular TV were "maybe" a once-a-week random game, and midnight tape-delay replays of the NBA finals (when Magic and/or Larry were involved).
My moms story might be worse than yours, her and my step dad went to the game Kobe retired his jerseys. After my stepdads friend Corey Blunt (yes the nba player I hope I spelled that right told them to meet at this restaurant. They pull up and see the fancy cars there because that’s where all the stars were going dressed in fancy clothes and my parents had on a kobe jersey and jeans. So they ended up going home because they didnt want to stand out, turns out he was sitting right next to Kobe and was going to introduce them. Her heart was broken shes a bigger fan than me about Kobe and thats my goat
I went to Kobe’s last game with my sister, who passed in 2018. She’s buried at the same cemetery where Kobe was laid to rest.
Makes looking back on that day just that much more surreal.
That third regret you had there. Same with me. I had a feeling he was going to retire but my friend told me to not get them tickets since the jazz were a bad team and he didn’t feel Kobe would retire that year. I hate him for that. We missed out on Kobe’s final game because I listened to him 🤣
I never saw John Wall play live
Wish i could've seen Dirk Nowitzki play in person just once. Living in south Texas was/is easy to go see Spurs games, but i wish i could've gone to just one Mavs game from 2003-2011ish.
That I didn't get into the sport sooner. I've never really been a big sports guy, and I didn't pay any attention to basketball until the Suns made it to the finals in 1993. I was a kid in the 80s and I could have seen the Lakers and Celtics rivalry as it was happening, but just I didn't have any interest until much later. (Though that raises the question, would Barkley still be my favorite player if I'd gotten into it earlier, and who could answer that.)
I was gonna go to the first wemby vs embiid Game were embiid drop 70 on wemby, didn’t go cuz was tired that day smh
Similar to me, i completely missed Kobe last game. It was the same night as warriors potential 73rd win. As a Heat fan I was 50/50 on either game to watch, and I chose the warriors game as it seemed more likely to be historic. Kobe hadn’t been playing well.
This will haunt me forever 🐺
One of my biggest regrets is not appreciating Allen Iverson more. He was always presented in a negative manner and I went with it while I was young. But now he’s an inspiration to so many.
My biggest regret is becoming a wizards fan 😂 HELP MEEEE
I think my biggest regret as an NBA fan was hating the Celtics in the 80s so much I really didn't appreciate how amazing they were and would sometimes skip their games when they were on CBS and TBS. I was a huge fan of Magic and always rooted for Philly, Detroit, Atlanta, or Milwaukee too any time they faced Bird's Celtics. They're now probably my favorite team to go back and watch old games from. Thankfully by my teens/early twenties I didn't make the same mistake with the Shaq & Kobe Lakers who I genuinely did hate as a bitter rival to my Spurs. But I didn't let that stop me from watching their games as a fan of the game and appreciating Shaq's post footwork, how much of an assassin Kobe was, Robert Horry and Derek Fisher being a couple of the greatest glue guys I have ever seen, etc. Since I went to school in LA during their threepeat I also got to take advantage of being able to watch every road game of theirs on KCAL as well as them being on NBC every weekend (couldn't afford cable as a student so missed most of the home games unless they were on NBC).
my biggest regret is losing - or had stolen - a bunch of autographs and trading cards i had in the late 60s/early 70s. i had so many classic cards: wilt, kareem (when he still went by lew alcindor), jerry west, elgin baylor, hondo, earl the pearl, connie hawkins, spencer haywood, walt bellamy, walt frazier, willis reed, ...
My biggest regret related to basketball is being to young and dumb and not taking care and keeping up with all the basketball cards my older brother gave me. He's 8yrs older than me and gave me a huge collection of basketball cards I can remember having MJ with the bulls, Scottie Pippen, Larry Johnson, Larry Bird, spud webb, Patrick Ewing, Penny Hardaway, Sam Cassell with the rockets, Chris Webber with the warriors and a shit ton more. I was 6yrs old when he gave me those cards and now I'm 34 and have no idea where they're at or what happened to them.
I don’t really regret anything so I’ll just share something that I wished happened that didn’t. I wish Kevin Durant’s shot in the 2021 ECSF Game 7 was a 3 instead of a 2. In the 2021 playoffs, I vividly remember Kevin Durant going off in the 2nd round against the bucks, including his 49 pt triple double in game 5. But for game 7, I was actually on vacation with my parents and all of us watched game 7. It was the best basketball experience of my life and all of us went crazy when KD hit that shot, only to realize that his foot was barely on the line. The bucks went on to win the game and the series in a bit of an anticlimactic OT and I was devastated and it kind of ruined the rest of the playoffs for me. If KD and the nets won that ring after Durant’s Achilles tear in 2019, it would’ve been perfect for me.
I think mine is having chosen a team to root for as a kid in the nba, where no one gives af about you, i didn't have the don't choose a team back then, but i went through the journey with it up and down already that's impossible to turn back now
In my case, being a Shaq guy who witnessed his dominance in '00-02, my biggest regret is I didn't appreciate Kobe until '08. How I'd wish I have appreciated him even more. When Mamba died, that't the time I fully appreciated his greatness. I shouldn't have taken him for granted when he's still playing 😢😢
Hornets tickets are real cheap and pretty close by. I’m annoyed I never saw LeBron before his Laker stint. The Cleveland (round two) years were when I was in college and broke so that wasn’t happening. But really sad I never saw the Heat big 3 back when attacking the rim was the game.
Never going to a Bulls game to see MJ even though Chicago was only a few hours away. I was in my early 20s, no wife or kids and I had minimal bills. Me and my friend talk about this all the time. He's a year older than me but he was a big Jordan fan like I was. And we always look back and say why didn't we just go to a game or a few games. It's funny cuz at the time Chicago seemed far away but realistically like I said it was only a couple of hours. We could have road tripped it.
Not exactly related to basketball, but once, I refused to spend 150 GEL (about 80 USD) on the UEFA Super Cup match between Sevilla and Barcelona in the city I lived in at the time because I thought it was too much for a poor student like me. The match ended with the final score was 5-4, and my favorite player, Lionel Messi, scored two free kicks. I have never ever had another chance to see him play, even though I'm ready to pay 100-fold for another opportunity to do it.
As a long suffering Raptor, mine are: Vince leaving and the way he did so; Derozan having to be sacrificed to get Kawhi in (Derozan deserved to be part of our winning team); the management not doing everything they could to convince Kawhi to stay on after he literally won us the title; and I suppose whilst I'm being greedy, not having Muggsy and Hakeem repeat their previously outstanding levels during their time in Toronto haha (though in fairness Muggy was underrated as a Raptor and had a great partnership with VC)
My biggest NBA regret was never being able to go to a Vancouver Grizzlies game as a kid. I live near Vancouver. I would have loved to have watched Bulls or Wizards MJ, Shaq, Kobe, Iverson, Hill, McGrady, Carter etc come and visit my Grizzlies and torch us for 40+. But we would get the win at the end (Very unlikely).
My biggest regret was that my older cousin was the equipment manager for my hometown Chicago and he had tickets for the game when d rose hit the game winning shot against lebron and the Cavs and I chose to drive to my dads to spend time with him and my siblings and we watched the shot as I said I was supposed to be at that game and everyone was mad at me for not going to the game 😅
I’d love to see a video with tier list of best iso players
Recently I got into an Instagram argument about who was better Hakeem or Shaq.
Man, that price jump was worse than the price jump for a flight if you don't reserve it 3+ months in advance
My biggest basketball regret is not buying a ticket to an event at my local bookstore that included a signed copy of one of the books that Kobe wrote. The event took place in the Fall of 2019.
Hi Jonny, great vid. Just wanted your thoughts on the 2021 lakers, if AD didn't go down with the injury in the first round, was there a possibility of another laker dynasty ?
4.6 mil for a signed card is just insane. I’m sure lots of people make a career out of just getting as many players to sign as many sports memorabilia as possible, just to be sold to someone with deep pockets later.
My biggest regrets that I came close to meeting Michael Jordan. My mom and her boyfriend took me to see a baseball game in Jacksonville. Michael was playing for the Birmingham barons. I was about to get his autograph from the bullpen. My mom yanked my ass away from the goat … I was embarrassed and feeling all the type of ways. I had his baseball and basketball cards ready to be sign and camera ready.
I'm a Jordan and Bulls fan but I saw that Kobe became something else in latter his carrer.
I saw a Jersey from Kobe for R$ 100 in Adidas store in Rio, and most of The jerseys were R$ 200. I though of buying it but also my finances were down. So I said "next day", it was in the middleof his last season.
Just after that, happened Kobe's Last game and it went back to R$ 200. Then He retired, didn't have The money either, came The accident and I lost The opportunity to have a memory.
Am a 76ers fan I had a very low chance at seeing Joel Embiid score 70 points in person
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I was at restaurant with my family and after I was done eating I noticed a little box for a game against the spurs but it was late on a Monday night but if won you get to go to game I didn’t even enter it because I was busy during the day and Embiid scored 70 points
my goal is to go see lebron play next year as i feel he is definitely retiring after
One of my biggest regrets is never being able to go and see the 90's Bulls live.
Becoming a Bulls fan just because I saw Derrick Rose jump high when I was 11 (even though I would definitely be a Sixers fan otherwise )
I’m Kobe fan and lakers fan so yes I’m very biased toward Kobe so I watch most of his games growing up .