I honestly feel sorry for a lot of kids growing up today. We got messed up in the head growing up in my era cause **** was a lot rougher physically, but now it's way worse mentally. Nearly everything you do remembered socially for all eternity.
When I was coming up playing sports, you got the best shoes you could and me showing off was me scoring touchdowns, getting interceptions and making incredible catches. Everybody remembered what you did, not the shoes you had. I have a friend to this day who laughs because my other friend was going for a layup and I pinned his **** to the backboard and slapped it so hard he never forgot that day. He couldn't tell you for the life of him what shoes I had on.
I wore some cross trainers in a dunk contest during a tournament and played in them too, and the guys that played with me wouldn't remember the shoes I had, they'd remember the layup fake to behind the back pass that got us to within 2 points before "halftime" though.
So maybe all that stuff about not clout chasing is relics of a bygone era. This is the social media era and like somebody said, your personality and worth is tied to how hard you can flex.
