The-Power wrote:AEnigma wrote:The-Power wrote:A multi-billion sports league has a great interest in not being perceived as rigged. That really shouldn't be hard to understand. So yes, the NBA does and should care about its image.
My mistake, I did not realise I was talking with an NBA representative giving us a preview of what the new policy for referee criticisms would be. Congratulations on being paid to worry about the “image” of a multibillion dollar corporation, but it should not be some apparent shock to you that the vast majority of viewers lack that financial incentive to care.
Not sure what it is with your lack of maturity and inability to hold a normal conversation these days but I'll respond one last time.
Normal conversations for me do not involve infantile weeping over the hypothetical harm to the NBA’s image from a player pointing out the obvious.
The NBA has an objective interest to care.
Correct.
People who care about the NBA have an incentive to care, too
This does not logically track, no. You are just declaring it without a connection.
Let me rephrase for you: people who for inexplicable reason have developed an emotional attachment to the idea that the NBA is above reproach have a personal incentive to care — but that is such a minority perspective that the NBA itself is not going to bother worrying about whether those people feel the league is sufficiently harsh on any players who would dare impute the league’s neutrality.
(unless they also believe it's rigged and they consider it speaking truth to power, but then I don't understand why they are invested enough in the NBA to post a ton on online messaging boards in the first place).
This also does not logically track, and is again the product of what a person who ties enjoyment of the sport to their faith in the NBA assumes would be something that matters to most viewers. People are here because they enjoy the sport, not because they deify the corporation that runs the league with the best players. You could tell me that your local grade school league had flawless refereeing, and guess what, that does not make me more interested in children’s basketball, because the game for me is not about the referees.
This is If you don't care about the NBA or believe it's rigged, that's your prerogative. But someone arguing that the NBA should come down hard on its own players when they suggest that it's rigged is a pretty reasonable stance considering what's at stake for the league.
Neither of you have meaningfully articulated “what is at stake”. You would rather project this staid notion of optics for its own sake, to the extent you want the league actively taking steps to make its on-court product worse.
