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obviously there are a lot of holes in this proposal, for example how to do treat end of the bench guys who are suiting up but not getting run, obviously they shouldn’t be penalized. (though maybe their insurance pool payouts are actually bigger than their usual game checks.)

just ban zones again. less movement on defense, less stress on everyones joints, and the stars get to cook. everyone wins.

the answer is fewer games of course but that ain't happening.

lmao get a grip

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver unveils streaming experience of the future via the NBA App - and you can be in it! pic.twitter.com/FKYJvskf0H

— NBA (@NBA) February 17, 2023

that is.....something

lol thats pretty funny

rashad has hella vertical for his age impressive

gonna be a lot of people scanning their dicks for this

As long as there's such vast sums of money at stake the league is going to tinker with every aspect of the "product" to maximize its profits and growth potential, while the teams, coaches and players will game every change to the system every way they can think of to maximize benefits to themselves. Pro sports are a very pure form of capitalism in that way.

With #NBA as our first professional sports league partner, we will bring select live @NBA games to fans in #SharedReality at our immersive entertainment venues in LA & Dallas, with more venues to come, bringing fans together in person & closer to the game.https://t.co/5uVWs820mz pic.twitter.com/aTsKd6klUv

— Cosm (@experiencecosm) February 17, 2023

so like…. an annoying movie theatre?

love to have an immersive entertainment experience

Do you want a mid-season tournament?

DeRozan: “I love hooping, man. I play in the summer, every summer, for free. Midseason? I’m all for it.”

How many games should a player have to play to be MVP?

DeRozan: “All of them. All 82.”

Mikal bridges MVP.

Sunday’s NBA All-Star Game was the lowest rated and least-watched edition of the game, per @paulsen_smw

• Ratings declined 29% and viewership 27% from last year’s All-Star Game

• The record-low audience places the NBA All-Star Game well behind this year’s NFL Pro Bowl

•… https://t.co/7vjNs9pe8B pic.twitter.com/sZ2jJXdXur

— NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) February 22, 2023

with the glut of talent the league has right now, the product is not ideal

not headed in a good direction. theres a lot to figure out.

they have no idea how to market the international stars either.

my three point (ha) plan to save the nba

1 reduce number of games to 58
2 limit number of uniform designs to 3, all in team colors throwbacks excepted, return to home white road color scheme, no nickname jerseys are allowed "the city" is grandfathered in tho
3 widen court so the three point line is a uniform 23-9 and there is space to shoot without stepping out of bounds all the time

that should pretty much do it, please dont respond saying this will never happen because thats a loser mentality, the nba needs these three big ideas very much

ok also

4. dial the officiating back a bit let em play a lil rougher

addendum to 2 no alterante courts

also they should euthanize shaq

that all star game did really feel like a new low in real time

i still think the saturday events are pretty fun, they need to get creative w sunday and figure something else out. it would honestly be more fun watching those guys play horse or do trick shots then what that game was

it was so bad

I like the cray jerseys. Bring back sleeves.

mods

ban jeff

ok also

4. dial the officiating back a bit let em play a lil rougher

― lag∞n, Wednesday, February 22, 2023 11:35 AM (thirty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i think they should just ref it how they do in the playoffs, it really shouldnt be two different sports between the two and yet.

that all star game did really feel like a new low in real time

i still think the saturday events are pretty fun, they need to get creative w sunday and figure something else out. it would honestly be more fun watching those guys play horse or do trick shots then what that game was

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, February 22, 2023 1:48 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I am pretty certain they’d take 3 on 3 a lot more seriously

If it was post-season like the probowl instead of a couple months before the playoffs then injury worries wouldn't be as big a factor. Of course, a lot of the best players would be pretty gassed by then. Another argument for shortening the season.

i was reading something where they pointed out that picking the teams right before the game is completely insane if you want a competitive game, no one has time to even think about who they're playing with. i would get rid of that, get rid of the elam ending, simplify the voting and try to start over.

shorten the game too

have they tried begging the players to care

i mean it's completely doomed as a concept but they've also just been stepping on a lot of their own rakes recently

Just play the game in 2K

i think just like two years ago was a fun game?

They should add an all-2k twitch game. Ayton would be the perennial captain in the west. Who would it be in the east? Simmo the Savage?

They could also try playing by North Korean rules

haha ok

Among the most critical issues, the NBA and NBPA are negotiating new luxury-tax tiers and rates to increase the lower tier and make it more viable for teams to spend money into the tax. As salaries continue to increase across the league, increasing the lower tax bracket tier allows the tax tiers to match up with the money being spent.

Sources: The NBA and NBPA are progressing in talks on reaching a new Collective Bargaining Agreement.

Full story at @TheAthletic on key issues such as luxury tax brackets, one-and-done rule, player extension limits and more: https://t.co/OPe3lC3hIC

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) February 27, 2023

this one is funny who wants it exactly

Lowering the age eligibility for the NBA Draft to 18 years old, which would effectively end the one-and-done system in college basketball. The NBA and NBPA have momentum on an agreement to terms that would lower the age to 18 for the draft, but sources say the union is pushing for conditions that would facilitate veteran players providing tutelage and orientation to the high schoolers entering the league. The players union wants to maintain the presence of veteran players and not allow newcomers to replace them, especially in the cases of teams with high school prospects who enter the NBA.

anytime you have an opportunity to use the world tutelage you gotta do it

the tax tiers thing is actually a pretty big flaw right now, the tiers need to be adjusted on the fly as salaries increase.

they calculate it anew every year no

i think they’re referring to the actual amount of money between the tiers which iirc is only $5 million even though average player salary is now i think north of 10. they want to make it so signing one guy doesn’t blow right through the first tier.

ah ok

it is funny tho that they did this to stop themselves from spending so much money but they just cannot stop, if i were a tax reciving team id be like no the tiers are fine

these two seem very reasonable

Increasing the contract extension limits, which would add flexibility and have significant effects incredibly quickly. Under the current CBA, teams and players can only increase the player’s salary by 120 percent in the first new year of the extension unless that player qualifies as a designated player/rookie or makes well below the league’s average salary. Shifting that 120 percent to potentially 140-150 percent as the sides have discussed, according to sources, opens the door a lot more for players who signed contracts that eventually become below-market deals to get enough of a raise to commit ahead of time, a group that potentially includes O.G. Anunoby, Domantas Sabonis and Lauri Markkanen over the next few seasons.

Smoothing out the process by which the salary cap rises instead of allowing the cap to spike, which occurred in 2016 and led to several overpriced contracts.

imposing a salary cap but then arranging a complicated tiered system of payments that allow you to spend over the cap you are imposing on yourself is a really funny circular game. like i get why it exists in this league but on its face it's still plainly stupid

to their credit its a fun game, basketball is easily the best general manager sport

i would love to see them do some things to ease player movement in this CBA but it feels like the teams are still pushing it in the other direction. there is a healthy balance between the FA and trade markets that is heavily imbalanced now bcuz every star player is incentivized to take the massive extension that they can only get from one team the first day it's made available