1-Man’s Opinion on Sports-Tuesday “NBA-Nothing But Angst”
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“NBA-NOTHING BUT ANGST”
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Lakers fans probably won’t like this.
Hard core basketball fans won’t likely agree.
Burg if you listen closely to all the things Adam Silver, he NBA commissioner had to say, he has problems in every corner of the world.
Everyone in the league is making 40-50M a year-hard to identify with the kind of money in today’s society, but the players think it is normal. Some world they live in.
The NBA just came thru the Trade Deadline, some 27-deals in all, where there was more contract dumping and draft pick swapping as a way to get players off your roster.
The brand of NBA basketball is hard to watch. No commitment to defense, and more fringe players on each roster than stars on rosters.
The new byword in the league is ‘tanking’, giving up on the season so a team can get a very high lottery draft pick. As of this past week, 7-to-10 teams appeared to be in tanking mode with half a season to play on the schedule. That sure looks like a betrayal to fans, season ticket holders, corporate sponsors and media partners.
The Draft Lottery needs to be re-worked but how?
The All Star weekend was just completed, with the game replaced by what looked like school yard pickup 10-minute basketball scrimmages. Really weak.
TV ratings for the All Star festivities have plunged 47% to the 2nd worst in NBA history.
The legendary LA Lakers and NY Knicks are not the franchises they used to be. Bad leadership (Jeannie Buss-James Dolan) has alot to do with that. Ditto in Sacramento, 20-years without a playoff game.
The most important part of the season is months away, the playoffs, which means there’s still more time for star players to go down with catastrophic injuries, because there are too many games, not enough recovery time. Just think of Ty Haliburton, Jayson Tatum, Anthony Davis, Damian Lillard among the many. And don’t you dare bring up ‘Load Management’ either.
Solutions?
Cut the season back to 72-games.
Make the All Star Game..Team USA-vs-Team World matchup-big money prize to Feed the Hungry.
Unweight the lottery…1-ping pong ball for each team.
Make the playoffs…a play in series…best of three..best of five…best of seven.
The NBA has lots of problems to solve. Adam Silver, the Commissioner, has a mess on his hands.
NBA = Nothing But Angst.
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