NBA State of Play – Rule Changes – Trends – CBA – Schedule Reform – Load Mgmt – etc

love to gesturing

inspired by draymond and the majority of the stars in the league. luka is real bad at this.

no one is near draymond hes got a tier to himself

i can seem him doing every one of these, most players stick to one or two

he doesnt point to the teleprompter usually. but yes he is the worst at ref interactions.

the one i hate to see them enforce is the "wave offs" theres nothing better than a psh wave off and walk away that should def be legal

tatum does that on almost every drive, tho i noticed hes dialed it back this year which is good cause you cant think you got fouled on every play

tho its actually a combo of two of the offenses raise arms then wave off

https://media.tenor.com/S2_5-WzdLDkAAAAd/pssshh-psh.gif

league wants hard cap lol

Story filed to ESPN: The NBA is pursuing the implementation of an upper salary limit in its negotiations on a new collective bargaining agreement with the National Basketball Players Association, a systematic change that has been met with significant union resistance.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) October 28, 2022

meaning of "the league" / "the NBA" is fuzzy here--surely the clips and warriors don't want this but some small market owners do.

idk the teams paying all that tax might want it too

the teams getting the payouts want this?

apparenlty its a non starter says woj cos the players association is against it

pretty good thread on the scoring boom

3-part hypothesis for why we're seeing so many insane stat lines in the NBA:

1) More heliocentrism ==> stars' usage rates are higher than ever https://t.co/zONRSzUtyi pic.twitter.com/r7tIUTB9ua

— Lev Akabas (@LevAkabas) January 4, 2023

Heliocentrism... it's FANtastic!

learn things

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyzhZzx2a3U

wow the last one!

all those rules are good and should be immediately adopted by the nba

i love the negative point for missed FT, half the players would be out of the league lol

yeah thats the most problematic one would make fouling too good

BUT1 League

Had a theory and tested it out, and it's true. Slowly but surely, players listed 6-4 to 6-6 have overtaken those listed 6-0 to 6-3 as the league's primary ball-handlers. pic.twitter.com/lXQRspVGM6

— Yaya Dubin (@JADubin5) January 17, 2023

interesting

lead guard is really it rip point guard

Deputy commish Mark Tatum tells ⁦@YahooSports⁩ midseason tournament “has momentum”; likely to begin in new TV deal, sources say. Plus, All-Star starters ballot https://t.co/s59wzrpbLj

— Vincent Goodwill (@VinceGoodwill) January 20, 2023

doing this but not doing a two-tier relegation-like structure is so tiresome. If you don't want to do real relegation just take the top half of each division after half the season and put them in the Championship Division that'd be cool right

I've watched like 1.6 basketball games this year but I have strong opinions about playoff formats

relegation is an amazing system but it will never happen in america due to financial reasons, and tbf it has at the top levels of soccer been rendered mostly irrelevant due to financial reasons

imho the draft is a very nice system too tho

imo this is the biggest thing they need to figure out in the next CBA

The Warriors are sitting Steph Curry, Draymond Green, Andrew Wiggins and Klay Thompson in Cleveland tonight. Last game of a five-game road trip. Went into OT in Boston last night.

— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) January 20, 2023

zero back to backs

would be best, mb this in season tournament is a sneaky way to play fewer games which imo wld be directly addressing the problem

i havent read anything, has any type of format been leaked or proposed for that?

dont think theres been any concrete info but iirc they were talking about not increasing the number of games which then it stands to reason that at least the teams that didnt make it to the champ game would be playing fewer games, obvs big speculation but makes sense to me

i do think there is some awareness that they play too many games but obvs the owners dont want to give up gate/local broadcast revenue, this could be a good compromise if it juices the national tv deal

less games wont ever happen so just find a way to stretch the season or maybe less 3-4 day breaks?

its possible you gotta believe

but in the short term yeah they wld prob have to lengthen the season to eliminate back to backs think the other demands on the arenas hockey games concerts etc make perfectly spaced games impossible

they already did it once why not keep going

I’m 100% against the mid season tournament until the league figures out the stars sitting situation, completely grotesque bullshit imo

your best players play 75% of the time even when they’re not injured, everyone agrees there’s too many games, now you want to start a new tournament because we all watched soccer that one time and liked it, give me a break

if it doesnt result in more games played i dont see the problem it will prob be a big success etc

maybe the good players will/should just sit out the tourney and take a couple weeks off in the middle of the season lol. i just cant imagine the stakes of this thing meaning enough to the players but we'll see

thats the big question is how does the league convince teams to not throw the tourney for rest purposes

the soccer teams already do that!

one thing u could do is the games count as regular season games, you have enough rest baked into the tourney no back to backs, then youre risking one loss for the opportunity for five wins, or maybe less if theres a knockout phase, either way the winners would get a nice boost in the standings, plus some other prize

the question is…why

How would the NBA's In-Season Tournament work?

According to Charnia, the NBA would play "Cup games" throughout November.

The eight teams with the best records in those games would advance to a single-elimination tournament in December. The other 22 teams would continue their regular seasons.

All In-Season Tournament games would count as part of the 82-game schedule. The two teams that reach the final will end up playing play one extra game during the regular season (83 total).

they should do a thing where at the end of the year, the top teams play in a "play-off" tournament

wtf, sounds like a scheduling nightmare... and whats the incentive