OK, so you are temporarily the Commish - what do you do?

[flranger]

1. FIBA rules
2. 40 minute games / 5 fouls (from watching FIBA, WNBA, college do we really need 2 extra minutes per quarter?)
3. Expand x2 teams to 32 teams
4. Eliminate replay in regular season, let the games flow naturally
5. 77 game season (2x home/away for other conference (32 games), 3x home/away/home for your conference alternating seasons (45 games)

[azcatz11]

Bring back the dress code policy and make all coaches wear suits

[magee]

1-on-1 during All-Star Break.

[SkyHookFTW]

1. Get rid of the lottery
2. Get rid of the three second rule
3. FIBA possession rules, so no more jump balls
4. Allow limited hand checking
5. No more B2B games

[dsg2003mach1]

make as many deals as possible that will continue to line my pockets in perpetuity and retire to the mountains

[Lo Wang]

Fire all current referees to eliminate any potential biases or ulterior motives and initiate a complete overhaul. This new group should undergo rigorous, high level FBI background checks to guarantee that each individual upholds the utmost standards of integrity. Furthermore, employ a specialized private investigative team to conduct random monitoring, ensuring that they consistently maintain their integrity, and institute a grievance system to hold them accountable if too many grievances are being reported.

[MrBigShot]

1. No more defensive 3 seconds

2. Cut down on ticky-tack fouls. Officiate like they did at the start of the season 2 years ago before players started crying about it.

3. Players are only eligible for the max extension after their 3rd/4th year unless they made the all star team prior to that, otherwise they can only receive up to 80% of it. Supermax is still all nba team or MVP.

4. Players foul out at 7 fouls now.

5. Flatten lottery odds for the bottom 7 teams so that the odds for the 1st through 3rd picks are equal between them.

[dockingsched]

Get rid of revenue sharing so these small and mid market teams get put back in their place

Force all international competitions that want the legitimacy of nba talent to participate to adopt nba rules and get rid of fiba rules that cater to less talented/less athletic players like no defensive 3 seconds, shorter 3 point line, smaller court, 40 min game.

[MrBigShot]

Get rid of revenue sharing so these small and mid market teams get put back in their place

Force all international competitions that want the legitimacy of nba talent to participate to adopt nba rules and get rid of fiba rules that cater to less talented/less athletic players like no defensive 3 seconds, shorter 3 point line, smaller court, 40 min game.

The NBA is one business comprised of 30 organizations, not 30 separate businesses. The NBA is aware of the big picture, which is why this suggestion would never happen.

And if anything, defensive 3 seconds is a crutch that makes things easier for perimeter players. A talented perimeter player should be able to create scoring opportunities irregardless of whether or not a team decides to use a strategy that involves parking a big in the paint.

[Mir]

Less time-outs per game, or atleast making them shorter, an NBA game should not be 2h30 long.

[Edrees]

I would insitutte these rules for flopping whether it's called by the refs or not. Any potential flop would be reviewed by a a team of experts after each game to ensure it's truly a flop to prevent either from punishing someone who didn't flop or not catching something this is a flop. If the flop is too close to call (ie, if there is actual contact made on the play), it is not counted as an offense.

1st offense - 5 game ban
2nd offense - 40 game ban
3rd offense - season ban
4th offense - your team will be penalized picks. This is to ensure coaches and owners instruct players not to flop and are scared to sign floppers.

Again, the refs wouldn't decide this but a special team after games would carefully analyze footage.

[Iwasawitness]

Fire the current commish.

[pipfan]

I have given this a lot (too much) thought
1-No more defensive 3 second
2-76 game season, not a big revenue hit but would improve play/reduce injuries/make each game more valuable
3-IST for the All Star Weekend. Semifinals Friday night, Dunk/3 point and other stuff Sat night/IST final Sunday night

Of course, clean up the way the game is called is obvious

[dockingsched]

Get rid of revenue sharing so these small and mid market teams get put back in their place

Force all international competitions that want the legitimacy of nba talent to participate to adopt nba rules and get rid of fiba rules that cater to less talented/less athletic players like no defensive 3 seconds, shorter 3 point line, smaller court, 40 min game.

which is why this suggestion would never happen.

forget the owners or board members - you are pretty much all-powerful with whatever changes you want), so what would you do while the power trip lasts?

[CS707]

Rescind Draymond's suspension, suspend LeBron 1 game for foul baiting and make Mitchell serve the suspension as proxy, and have GS and Cleveland replay game 7.

[Meat]

these suggestions are so stupid, less games? rules to make the games slower? you know the point of the league is to make money right?

[AleksandarN]

Test Lebron for PEDs for real.

[SlimShady83]

Bring back the 90's

[SlimShady83]

Test Lebron for PEDs for real.

[madskillz8]

I'll start by making Jalen Brunson the logo

which one, 1 or 2?

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Joking aside, I'm a fan of his play (minus flopping). I'd also stop marketing just 1-2 teams- after all there are huge number of global NBA fans and for them, it doesn't matter Los Angeles is a better place than say Denver, or Oklahoma.