Thoughts on fixing the NBA in the USA

[Stinky 12]

After the recent events of gun pulling in the locker room of an NBA team after a game, something needs to be done. For far too long the NBA, and all of the professional sports in the USA for that matter, has been a safe haven for thugs. Here are my thoughts on cleaning up the NBA.

 

1) No more fines on players for when they do stupid shit. Fines should be handed to all teams, when a single player needs to be disciplined. I don't mean these little slap on the wrist 100,000 USD fines, I mean large fines. One player on a team fucks up, then all the teams have to pay, and pay big. If you start handing out multi million dollar fines to all teams, even though it wasn't their player that pulled a boner, you can guarantee that they will put pressure on the team that employs the fucking idiot that committed the act. Teams will start looking a little more closely at the players they hire to play for them. Get the fucking thugs out of the game!

 

2) The NBA caters to street thugs by the way the game has evolved into a ghetto style game. Change that shit! I would make a slam dunk worth only 1 point, along with any shot taken within the paint worth 1 point as well. Basketball is about shooting the ball, not about hot doggin dunks and layups. Reward the true players of the game. You want a 2 point dunk, you must leave the ground outside the paint. The paint must also be made wider, to almost a complete square. Fucking thugs want to jump? Let's see them fuckers jump!

 

3) Too many fouls are allowed. Reduce the number of fouls allowed. If players foul out faster, there will be less fouls.

 

4) Too many trades in the sport. How can a fan stay interested in a team, when the players change so damn often? I say, you are required to stay with the team that drafted you for a minimum of 10 years, unless you are cut. If you are cut, then you are allowed to join another team. If that team cuts you, then you are done for 5 years. After 5 years, you may join another team, and the process starts all over.

 

5) The coach needs respect from the players. The coach needs to be the highest paid person on the team. The management needs to stay out of player affairs, and let the coach make the calls. The coaches nowadays are a fucking joke.

 

Those are just some of my thoughts. Call me fucking crazy? No problem. Let's hear your ideas.

[FatherMojo 2]

 

Always thought that for flagrant things, they should be fined a percentage of their salary. Forget the USD 50k fines, that is peanuts for them. Go for the percentage of salary as penalties and things would calm down.

 

 

FatherMojo

[wetwillie 12]

I quit watching on TV and paying for tickets a long time ago. I refuse to support a bunch of THUGS. If more would do that watch how fast they clean up their act.

[midlifecrisis 4,030]

I quit watching on TV and paying for tickets a long time ago. I refuse to support a bunch of THUGS. If more would do that watch how fast they clean up their act.

I agree that basketball has become a trash talking game but I disagree that fewer fouls should be allowed. All that would accomplish is less attempts at playing defense than players already do.

 

The biggest change I would make is ban the draft lottery. The purpose of the lottery is to protect big market teams who have a bad year or two. The logic is that if New York and LA are bad teams for too long it is bad for the whole league. It has the compounding effect of free agents wanting to play for the elite teams.

 

In the NBA draft there are very few dominant players coming out in the draft. Skewing the odds away from the worst team getting the best available player makes it a system that favors the richest teams.

[Mescalito 19]

It's not just the NBA that needs some serious re-vamping, but a lot of pro sports here. Where else but in the NBA or the NHL, or major league baseball for that matter, can you commit what is in any other setting a felony and usually get little more than an ejection from the game? Fights break out left and right in a hockey game, and seem to be actively encouraged, if not actually cheered. To do in any other workplace, or the street, or a restaurant, what hockey players do every night on the ice, would get you a felony conviction and a lengthy prison sentence. The rationale that "well, that's just a part of the game" is absolute nonsense. I've watched Olympic hockey, which is no-check, and it's fast, exciting, and you get to see how incredibly skilled some players really are. But the NHL? What's the old joke . . . . "I went to the fights last night and a hockey game broke out".

 

And how about those bench-clearing brawls one sees several times a season in baseball? In any other setting that same behavior would result in a swarm of police officers, lots of arrests, and plenty of jail time. And a pitcher throwing right at a batter, or a batter coming after the pitcher with bat in hand? I think that qualifies as assault with a deadly weapon. The fact that it happens on a baseball diamond doesn't make it any less a criminal act.

 

Anyone remember the movie "Rollerball"? We're not far from that at this point.

[Firepole 181]

It's not just the NBA that needs some serious re-vamping, but a lot of pro sports here. Where else but in the NBA or the NHL, or major league baseball for that matter, can you commit what is in any other setting a felony and usually get little more than an ejection from the game? Fights break out left and right in a hockey game, and seem to be actively encouraged, if not actually cheered. To do in any other workplace, or the street, or a restaurant, what hockey players do every night on the ice, would get you a felony conviction and a lengthy prison sentence. The rationale that "well, that's just a part of the game" is absolute nonsense. I've watched Olympic hockey, which is no-check, and it's fast, exciting, and you get to see how incredibly skilled some players really are. But the NHL? What's the old joke . . . . "I went to the fights last night and a hockey game broke out".

 

And how about those bench-clearing brawls one sees several times a season in baseball? In any other setting that same behavior would result in a swarm of police officers, lots of arrests, and plenty of jail time. And a pitcher throwing right at a batter, or a batter coming after the pitcher with bat in hand? I think that qualifies as assault with a deadly weapon. The fact that it happens on a baseball diamond doesn't make it any less a criminal act.

 

Been saying this for a long time myself. Kids(and adults as well) see this shit and, understandably, wonder why the get disciplined for the same offense. It's gotten a lot worse as "sports" has grown from a mere business into a huge business enterprise with big payouts. Gotta have violence and controversy to keep the caveman crowd interested and watching the beer commercials.

 

You want to see ratings go up and send a message to everyone who wants to be a sports figure at the same time? Every time one of these assholes, who gets paid huge amounts of money to play a fucking schoolyard game, takes a swing at somebody have a couple of cops go out on the field, put them in handcuffs, arrest them, and haul their ass to jail. If they resist, Taser them. This is exactly what would happen 30 feet from the field/floor to anyone else. Ratings would go through the roof.

[Mescalito 19]

........Every time one of these assholes, who gets paid huge amounts of money to play a fucking schoolyard game, takes a swing at somebody have a couple of cops go out on the field, put them in handcuffs, arrest them, and haul their ass to jail. If they resist, Taser them. This is exactly what would happen 30 feet from the field/floor to anyone else......

 

I agree completely. Sadly, there isn't Chief of Police in the country with the cojones to start doing this. And you can rest assured that if he did, within moments the gazillionaire team owners would be on the phone to that cities' mayor demanding -- and getting -- the Chief's head on a platter.

[checkout 5]

i don't care what kind of rule changes you make they are not worth that kind of money.its just a sport,its not like there building something or furthering humanity.we reward people for the wrong reasons i believe....