When fans watch NBA games, they love to trash on players, especially when they are struggling. Fans also love to trash bench players who rarely see playing time.
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Some everyday fans truly believe they could beat a bench player on an NBA team. This is obviously absurd. NBA legend Vince Carter recently weighed in on this narrative, delivering a harsh reality to those delusional fans.
“The everyday fan, I want y’all to understand,” Carter said. “Just because you look at the end of that bench, you see that guy that doesn’t play [and think], ‘I will kill him.’ Nah, he will kill you. That is a fact… You go into your front yard, you go into your gym, you’re like, ‘Oh man, nah, I’m doing this.'”
Carter is right, no ordinary fan can come close to an NBA player. Like when Brian Scalabrine famously told fans: “I’m way closer to LeBron than you are to me.”
Scalabrine and Carter are both correct. NBA players, no matter how much they play, are better than you realize.
