What are NBA's Fixable problems?

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What are NBA's Fixable problems? 

Post#1 » by tamaraw08 » Sat Jul 19, 2025 3:38 am

1. Injuries caused by wear and Tear.
a. Reduce Regular season games to 76 games. To compensate lost of revenue, they add 6 more preseason games with the Core players only playing 1-2 quarters. They simply treat it as tuneup games.
b. Reduce Game duration to 40 minutes/10 min quarters. Teams can sit their starters to about 5-8 minutes rest.

2. Injuries caused by players having to use their main lower extremities parts like muscles/tendons/cartilages for burst of speed to defend 3pt shooters.
a. Eliminate corners 3's, so corner shots would only count as 2pts.
b. extend 3pt line by 6 more inches.

3. Paying fans suffer through players sitting out(load management) Bec of Back to back games. This also result to less quality games due to fatigue from the prior game.
a. Stretch the season by 1 month, Start the Season about 2 weeks earlier and end season 2 weeks later.

4. We all need to experience that ordeal of waiting 4-8 minutes of reviews to challenge calls.
a The review time should be limited to 90 seconds, 20 seconds each to view 4 angles then freaking decide.

5. Volatile Referees throwing out players because of excessive complaints robbing excitement from paying fans.
a. Instead of ejections, opposing team would be rewarded with 4 FTs after the first warning(guilty player needs to sit 6 mins), and if the offending player commits another disrespectful gesture then it would warrant an disqualification with a heavy fine.
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Re: What are NBA's Fixable problems? 

Post#2 » by GrindCityHustle » Sat Jul 19, 2025 3:42 am

Making the fixes less obvious. Like the Luka trade and then Flagg a few months later.

Make a half court or full court shot an automatic 4 pointer. Because why not.

Diluting the league will just make bad teams worse so I am for moving over diluting. We don't need expansion.
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Re: What are NBA's Fixable problems? 

Post#3 » by JRoy » Sat Jul 19, 2025 4:00 am

Biased officiating
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Re: What are NBA's Fixable problems? 

Post#4 » by Sofia » Sat Jul 19, 2025 4:05 am

Games don’t need to go for as long as they do.

- reduce the number of timeouts
- shorten the timeouts
- take action to speed up reviews, including offsite decision made by a remote video referee
- subs are made while the referee is signalling the foul, and only before the first free throw, not between each free throw.
- reduce the time players get to shoot free throws from 15 second to 5 seconds.
- no time outs while ball is live.


It’s been a while since it didn’t math on all these changes, but last time I checked it brought most games into the 2:05 to 2:15 time window.

Also start the games on time. If a 2:15 length game starts at 7pm pacific, it will be over at 12.15am eastern, much more palatable for east coast viewers.
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Re: What are NBA's Fixable problems? 

Post#5 » by vxmike » Sat Jul 19, 2025 4:43 am

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.
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Re: What are NBA's Fixable problems? 

Post#6 » by jowglenn » Sat Jul 19, 2025 5:17 am

Don't extend the entire 3 point line - just extend the sides of the court, so the corner 3 isn't artificially shorter than normal 3s. All 3s should be the same distance
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Post#7 » by Tim Kempton » Sat Jul 19, 2025 6:26 am

Eliminate corner 3s.

Push the 3 point line 5 feet back.

Reinstate technical fouls/fines for flopping.

Bring back handchecking.
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Post#8 » by MrTribbiani » Sat Jul 19, 2025 6:30 am

Tim Kempton wrote:Eliminate corner 3s.

Push the 3 point line 5 feet back.

Reinstate technical fouls/fines for flopping.

Bring back handchecking.


The 3 point line is fine where it is.

Handchecking has never gone away :lol:
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Re: What are NBA's Fixable problems? 

Post#9 » by Karate Diop » Sat Jul 19, 2025 6:51 am

Call moving screens.
Stop giving preferential treatment on defense to select teams each season.
Stop rewarding foul baiting.
Fix the draft odds so that the worst teams in the league are even more likely to wind up with a top pick.
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Re: What are NBA's Fixable problems? 

Post#10 » by UcanUwill » Sat Jul 19, 2025 7:41 am

Some problems caused by greed will not be fixed, but I still hope they could fix timeout length. The greed has gone too far, that to me, is the worst thing about the NBA, fact timeouts are 3 times longer than in any other Basketball I ever watch. I stopped watching NBA live and legally, even tho I have access to it, but I do not want to support it anymore plus I found illegal page that puts all the games with all the stoppage cut. It is actually insane how the experience differs when you skip all that garbage, you would need to pay me to watch NBA game live at this point, it is just not entertaining.
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Re: What are NBA's Fixable problems? 

Post#11 » by UcanUwill » Sat Jul 19, 2025 7:43 am

MrTribbiani wrote:
Tim Kempton wrote:Eliminate corner 3s.

Push the 3 point line 5 feet back.

Reinstate technical fouls/fines for flopping.

Bring back handchecking.


The 3 point line is fine where it is.

Handchecking has never gone away :lol:


Eliminate corner 3 sounds a bit similar to me as people who said - why Soccer need offsides... Like, do you know how much the game would change if we eliminate corner 3, it would be completely different game, defenses at that point, opening such can of worms it is just so dangerous, for something that isn't really a problem. Getting to the basket would get so much harder, zone defenses would be something crazy.
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Re: What are NBA's Fixable problems? 

Post#12 » by doogie_hauser » Sat Jul 19, 2025 7:54 am

Give the bottom 3 teams in the NBA stronger odds of getting a decent lottery pick and eliminate any chance of any non bottom 8 team (from either conference) having a chance of winning the lottery or breaking into the top 4.

At the very least, this will stop conspiracy theories.

(At the very least, teams that qualify for the play in tournament and not make it should be barred from getting the number 1 pick like Atlanta 2 years ago)

Also reduce the first round to a best of five series (if you are not going to reduce the amount of regular season games)

Also shot clock should not reset after any failed 2nd/3rd free throw attempt.
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Re: What are NBA's Fixable problems? 

Post#13 » by Chuck Everett » Sat Jul 19, 2025 9:24 am

Go back to 4 divisions and have more in division games during the season. There should be regional rivalries in this league.
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Post#14 » by gavran » Sat Jul 19, 2025 10:10 am

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Re: What are NBA's Fixable problems? 

Post#15 » by JM00n69 » Sat Jul 19, 2025 10:42 am

Get FIBA refs to ref the games so there's no superstar calls

Promote the upcoming generation of stars. I live in the UK and all of my friends are into soccer instead of bball. They all know Steph Curry but no body knows Jokic/Giannis/Luka/SGA/Ant. That's criminal
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Post#16 » by Godymas » Sat Jul 19, 2025 10:46 am

encouraging celibacy and sobriety by turning the league into a full time bubble
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Re: What are NBA's Fixable problems? 

Post#17 » by Wolveswin » Sat Jul 19, 2025 1:12 pm

I will pick one of my favorites to discuss. Easier to make trades.

New CBA has many guardrails that didn’t exist before. Hard cap, aprons, etc. All ensure organizations are building rosters within “league guided” rules and mandates. Time to lessen the $ restrictions rules in conducting trades.

For example, vets on 3rd contracts (or more) should have basically zero financial matching rules. If a win-now team wants to trade rookie contract or picks for a vet - salary matching not needed. Team trading for vet just needs to abide by salary restrictions for overall roster construction (when vet salary is acquired).
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Re: What are NBA's Fixable problems? 

Post#18 » by Bad-Thoma » Sat Jul 19, 2025 1:54 pm

Stop promoting gambling.
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Post#19 » by Wolveswin » Sat Jul 19, 2025 1:56 pm

Bad-Thoma wrote:Stop promoting gambling.

That is NOT happening.

Alcohol was not allowed at one point either.

Weed will be next.
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Re: What are NBA's Fixable problems? 

Post#20 » by Raps in 4 » Sat Jul 19, 2025 2:28 pm

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).

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