What are NBA's Fixable problems?

[JShuttlesworth]

I stopped reading at 6 more pre-season games

It just got crazier after that

[vxmike]

To mitigate against bad officiating: Allow teams to make 1 challenge each half (2 per game). A team should not lose their timeout for a successful challenge (currently teams lose their TO on their second challenge, even if successful).

I’m in favor of expanding challenges but reducing routine replays that nobody cares about.

[Lalouie]

moving the 3pt line back 2.5 > 3 feet
enlarging (widening)the court
raise the age requirement to 21

[Flannerz]

When you take a step back and look at it, it's insane that the regular season is 82 games. If you want to keep the number of games then making the season a bit longer for more space between games would help.

[Snotbubbles]

The problem I have is all the star players not playing. When you buy a ticket to the game, you have no idea who is playing. I can't think of another sport where guys take so many days off.

[jkvonny]

One of them, would be to start marketing their products, teams, etc better. Despite the different market sizes and cities.
Like the NFL does a much better job at that than the NBA does (mostly national media). Doesn't matter whether the teams/franchises are small/mid or large market.

It is a very fixable issue to fix. With the NBA coverage going back to NBC, that should help a whole lot. NBC was great at it back in the days.

[tamaraw08]

1) reduce the number of replays and how long they take, especially in the regular season

2) discourage tanking. No top 5 pick two years in a row and the 10 non play-in teams all get equal lottery odds.

Like I said, reviews should be limited to 90 seconds which is enough.
Definitely yes on repeated tanking. If the tanking team is also in the bottom 10 in payroll then that team should not be allowed to pick in the top 8.

[tamaraw08]

To reduce injuries: Shorten the season to 66 games (4 games against division rivals, 2 against everyone else).

To mitigate against bad officiating: Allow teams to make 1 challenge each half (2 per game). A team should not lose their timeout for a successful challenge (currently teams lose their TO on their second challenge, even if successful).

Lessening games makes sense but owners would demand that players would be paid less because of lost revenue, so I suggested in lieu of lost games, they add preseason games where stars don't have to play fulls minutes.

League also are worried of too many game stoppages that is why they limit challenges. But teams should be allowed to use another 90 second challenge if they have another timeout saved.

[SerialChiller]

1) Only call obvious fouls, all the minor little things are play on. That would make it easier on the officials, make the game more physical, offer more of an offense/defense balance, and reduce flopping and foul baiting.

2) Get rid of the corner 3. Time to just draw a straight line across the top of the arc from sideline to sideline for the new 3pt line. That will help reduce the ridiculous amount of 3s and help defenses not need to spread out as much to defend the corners. It would also mean the return of the mid-range and post game. The short 3s never made sense anyways.

[Memories]

Diluting the league will just make bad teams worse so I am for moving over diluting. We don't need expansion.

Completely disagree and think the opposite. We absolutely NEED an expansion of two more teams (Seattle back and Vegas).

There is so much great talent that are either hiding on the bench or players that can break out that were from the G-League. There is so much more talent in this league than ever before.

We need a couple of more teams to see these players not rot behind the bench/bigger roles.

[baldur]

not calling travels. it feels like a street basketball. if there are rules, players must stick to them.