The sports world is full of terminology and slang that is used by its viewers and players of the game. Every sport has its own specific slang that references the sport its self, but I’m talking about basketball words that can be heard throughout world from lovers of the game. With that said words like “nasty” and “crossed” are used heavily all over the league (NBA). This is amplified when viewing on social media and networking platforms because words like those are littered in the captions of game highlights. For example “House of Highlights” a well known page on Instagram will post basketball highlights and under them may read along the lines of “_____ might have just done the nastiest play in sports!!”. Game commentators have used them when commentating but most tend to mock in a joking way due to their age, I would say all of them are over 40 but the basketball culture is so strong to where it makes it’s way to the past generation. When you hear someone using basketball specific slang you automatically have a base of relativity. Because it shows you care and have immersed yourself enough in ball culture to where you know you can talk anything to do with the league with them.
Hey Hunter,
I’m interested in understanding what expressions like “nasty” and “crossed” mean. In other words, do they mean something different than the dictionary definition? Also, I am unsure what you are saying about game commentators. Are the commentators mocking older people or are the commentators being mocked? I hope you can clear that up for me.
Yes I can see how that might not have been clear on giving a small definition on the words I gave. Nasty is used when someone shows their great ability to do something, so like “their ridiculously good at that” pretty much. And crossing someone is when you preform a dribble move that either moves the defender the opposite way, or they fall which will make anyone watching burst with excitement since it’s not something done often. As for the commentating, the commentators are old so they will poke fun at the younger generation using these words, for example they will reference their children and say “you know what my son told me the other day?”. Followed by them using it but in a “jokey” way.