What would you do to fix the NBA?

[Sid6.7]

theres so much young talent, and the ratings just keep going down. . . its sad. what would you do?

[mulisha]

theres so much young talent, and the ratings just keep going down. . . its sad. what would you do?

Go back to when the refs didn't slow down and ruin games. People pay to see the players, not the refs.

[primer]

everythings a winner on CBS....











though i hate most programming on CBS....

[Telos]

After the first round, reseed the teams. Oh, and make a set number qualify from the east and the west, but have them all in one pool when doing the seeds. That way you get an exciting finals between teams like Phoenix and San Antonio and people don't have to suffer through a Jazz/Warriors matchup.

[Milosenpotion]

Yep, what mulisha said. Get rid of all these touch foul rules and let there be some physicality again. Nothing turns away casual fans like a free throw fest. Also, I'd probably trim the # of timeouts allowed or be more strict on the time teams have to get back on the court after a timeout because there are WAY too many commercials. The last 2 minutes of a game can take like 20 mins.

[blah]

Cut the number of games in a season in third and play two seasons a year. Reduce the maximum salary. Share revenues evenly. Add team incentives for final records and playoff performance. Redraft the entire league every two years, but allow each team to protect one player. Play 4 on 4.

Really there's a ton I'd do, this is just the beginning, but I doubt any of it will ever happen.

[MassacrE]

Move to 2 half's instead of 4 quarters to keep the teams with less talent in games. 4 quarters is just too long and dominant teams just crush players by the third quarter where the fourth quarter isin't even worth watching.

Move the 3 point line to college level so shooting teams don't have to shoot from half court to stay close to big teams that dominant the paint.

Let players hang on the rim again and it not be a technical. The game was a lot more fun when players would throw down a massive dunk and hang on the rim for a few seconds to emphasize it.

Remove the interference when the ball is on or around the rim so players can be more aggressive with put backs.

Those are the basics I'd like to see change.

[Mercenary-VD]

Concerning timeouts I think the NBA has already implement the proper rules, a maximum of three timeouts in the final quarter and only two timeouts per team in the final two minutes.

I think the biggest issue that the NBA needs to address is player salaries. The reason why a great deal of physicality has been removed from the NBA is because teams are allowed to invest incredible sums of money into one player. In the midst of Jordan's reign player salaries spiked and team ownership began to take more interest in player health. All of the sudden teams became much more interested in player health to make sure that their investement was protected. As a result the NBA came under pressure from the owners to ensure that their 10, 20 and 30 million dollar investments were protected.

Aside from that there is one other issue I'd like to see addressed. I'm tired of watching the trailing ref calling shooting fouls when the ball is baseline or in the low post. What I'm trying to say is that too often the ref with the worst angle towards the ball calls a foul that never occured.

Something should be done to ensure that only the ref(s) with the best angle to the ball are allowed to call shooting fouls.

[ktslim]

Make the ball a hot potato so they learn to pass it...

There's only a select few teams who excercise the right to play fundamental basketball. The one who excercises it the most won another championship last night. Albeit, we all lose out on seeing someone put up 81 points in a game, but we just might see that said team pass the second round later in the season.


team first.

[Telos]

Make the ball a hot potato so they learn to pass it...

There's only a select few teams who excercise the right to play fundamental basketball. The one who excercises it the most won another championship last night. Albeit, we all lose out on seeing someone put up 81 points in a game, but we just might see that said team pass the second round later in the season.


team first.

while teamwork is important and all that, there are a few select teams who would hardly win ever if not for a player scoring over 40 almost every game. Cough Lakers cough.

As for 3's, they could be closer, like at the international line, but not college.

[hate]

After the first round, reseed the teams. Oh, and make a set number qualify from the east and the west, but have them all in one pool when doing the seeds. That way you get an exciting finals between teams like Phoenix and San Antonio and people don't have to suffer through a Jazz/Warriors matchup.

The Jazz and Warriors series was one of the more enteraining ones to watch in this years playoffs

[SoulEdge]

The best thing for ratings would be to have one playoff bracket with all the teams in the NBA. May madness anyone??

[Sid6.7]

i would make regular season games on set days only. like tuesday/thursday/saturday or something. every sport that plays on set days is a cash machine (nfl/nascar).

every nba team should have a nbdl team, so you can send shitty draft picks like kwame brown down to learn how to play basketball.

make players be 2 years removed from college to enter the draft. this promotes players like durant/oden even more, and gives nba teams something to draft on besides potential. with 1 year in college the highly ranked kids from last year are still coming out without having really accomplished anything against decent competition. . . ie thaddeus young

completely eliminate the lottery, its stupid. let the team with the worst record have something to look forward to, instead of crush their hopes with ping pong balls.

also since none of that shit will probably happen, i think you should seed the playoffs like the sec basketball tourney. E1 vs W8, E2 vs W7 . . . and so on, so you are less likely to get shitty finals.

[SoulEdge]

That's why we have Europe

[Yukfo0]

how about +1 point if you score within 5 seconds. Fast breaks are always fun to watch. lets take 10 seconds off the shot clock and make it 4 seconds to cross half-court too.
My ideas wont happen but it would be way more fun to watch ;l

[BigSerd]

Force every team to play like Phoenix and Dallas.

[Moniker]

Well, instead of saying what I would do, I'll just list why I think it's boring.

1) Best of 7 series are boring. They just are. The NCAA tournament is fucking epic because it's win or go home. So are the NFL playoffs. Hell, even the World Cup.

2) The Spurs are boring to watch. Sorry, but they just are. Yes they play efficient basketball or whatever but it's just not exciting at all. Same with the Pistons. But year after year we see them go deep into the playoffs, thus people get bored with them.

3) Foreign players. They're efficient and technically sound and fundamentals and crap, but they're boring to watch too. I'd much rather see really good defense and highflying drives to the hoop than watch Dirk Nowitzki take jumpshots or Manu Ginobili flop all day long.

4) Talent needs to develop (read as: gain hype) in college before they go to the NBA. But like retards, the NBA doesn't comprehend this. Look at how many jerseys Reggie Bush and Vince Young sold before they even played a single down.

[puppychow]

Move the 3 point line to college level so shooting teams don't have to shoot from half court to stay close to big teams that dominant the paint.



God jesus mary joseph no. 'jackin threes /= good basketball. and ive never seen or heard of a team that has trouble putting up threes bc OMG T3H OPPOSITION IS TOO BIIIG. I think you really know less about the nba than you think you do.

[AGT-Shady]

make players be 2 years removed from college to enter the draft. this promotes players like durant/oden even more, and gives nba teams something to draft on besides potential. with 1 year in college the highly ranked kids from last year are still coming out without having really accomplished anything against decent competition. . . ie thaddeus young.


The NBA pushed for exactly that in their last collective bargaining agreement, and it was the one issue the Player's Association refused to budge from, making the minimum time go from 2 years removed from college to 1, damn shame if you asked me.

I too would like the top 8 seeds from each conference make the playoffs like they do now, but seed them according to rank so that the best 2 TEAMS are most likely to play each other at the end of the playoffs, even if it meant all of the Eastern Conference teams got bounced in the first round.

[puppychow]

on this exact topic, the man speaks...

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/blog/index?name=simmons

[Sid6.7]

^ its not just the playoffs that are broken.

[Mercenary-VD]

While I'm in agreement about the seeding process it's another pie in the sky idea.

Something should be done to ensure responsible ownership, or at the very least make it so that mangement has an easier time controlling their finances. One of the biggest problem is having guaranteed contracts worth so much money. I do believe that some teams get themselves in poor financial situations but massive, guarnteed contracts make it so that the NBA can't control the competitiveness of the league while at the same time making so that teams can't get back on track for years at a time.

[Vr_]

get rid of flopping

[CHIPMAN]

Put trampolines all over the court

[Mercenary-VD]

^ already been done.

[Sid6.7]

holy shit, that league was amazing.

[|RES|arod]

Stop drafting "potential." Too many players are coming out of college early. I think its great to be able to watch players develop in college and prove themselves.

[Redneck]

Make it so it's not five people playing 1-on-1 and turn it back into five people playing 5-on-5.

[dakine`]

Make it more like hockey

[ZeusofIowa]

Get Doc Brown to build another time machine and go back to the early 90s.