NBA Reform: In What Ways Would You Improve the NBA (2024)?

[BK_2020]

Remove timeouts. Or limit it to 1. Professional basketball players should be able to figure it out themselves. Soccer and ice hockey players can, why can't Tatum and Jaylen?

[Parliament10]

Remove timeouts. Or limit it to 1. Professional basketball players should be able to figure it out themselves. Soccer and ice hockey players can, why can't Tatum and Jaylen?

No more game management, extending series nonsense for the networks.

Get rid of Doris Burke.

Keep it plausable you guys.
Don't Troll the Thread.

~ Parl

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Remove timeouts. Or limit it to 1. Professional basketball players should be able to figure it out themselves. Soccer and ice hockey players can, why can't Tatum and Jaylen?

For something like that to happen, it would have to be part of a bigger change. E.g, 12 periods of 4 minutes each, with scheduled commercial breaks between each of them.

That might not actually be terrible. And an Elam Ending could still be considered for the last one.

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If there is a play-in tournament, it should NOT affect the overall schedule. Just pull games forward into the knockout round that would have happened later in the year otherwise, while giving the rest of the teams a week or so off early and giving the teams in the knockout round small later-season breaks.

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If the league is expanded to 32 teams, playing 2 games against each other team already accounts for 62 games.

Adding a third game against everybody in a smaller group -- e.g. your conference -- would lead to an odd number of games on the schedule, and hence a home/away imbalance.

However, one could add TWO more games each against the other 7 teams in your 8-team division, for a total of 76 on the season. Or there could be 1 game each against the other 7, plus 1 game each against a team from each other conference in an NFL-like seeding-base scheme, for a total of 72.

[jfs1000d]

Some of these suggestions, widening of the court for example, could be G-League trial things. Most are affiliates now right? So have the bigger league teams pay to widen those before you do it in the bigger arenas where you’d lose seating. I think it’d strum up interest in the G-league, avoid changes that don’t end up working to the games that actually matter, and help you to perfect the changes you want to make to the NBA game.

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[RodyTur10]

One of the biggest problems is the amount of injuries, especially at the end of the season. Almost every year we get teams in the Finals that lose key guys when it matters most. The only solution for that is lessen the amount of games. Both regular season as playoffs. The latter is easy, just make all series best-of-five. Statistically it's also a logical thing to do since often (like 90% of the time) the first team that wins 3 games wins a best-of-seven anyway.

Less is more. The quality of games will improve. Besides that we can add more playoff-teams, since the overall parity and quality of the NBA has improved. There's continuous speculation about expansion and I believe the time is ready for that. Actually I'd go from 30 to 36 teams. I'm thinking Vancouver, Seattle, Las Vegas, San Diego, Omaha and Kentucky. Move Memphis and New Orleans to the East.

Create 4 conferences (NE, SE, NW, SW) with 9 teams each. Nrs 3-6 (6 and 7 = play-in game?) in the standings play in the first round (make that a best-of-three), while Nrs 1-2 in the standings get a bye for the first round. Then after the second round (so two teams advancing from each conference) we cross with the other conferences and in such a way any NBA finals is possible (not restricted by an east and west team). The regular season consist of a home and away game, thus 70 games which should eliminate back-to-backs.

Also to further increase parity I'd advocate for an absolute hard salary cap. The spendings of the Lakers, Warriors, Nets and for the Celtics in the near future is extravagant.

[Parliament10]

One of the biggest problems is the amount of injuries, especially at the end of the season. Almost every year we get teams in the Finals that lose key guys when it matters most. The only solution for that is lessen the amount of games. Both regular season as playoffs. The latter is easy, just make all series best-of-five. Statistically it's also a logical thing to do since often (like 90% of the time) the first team that wins 3 games wins a best-of-seven anyway.

Less is more. The quality of games will improve. Besides that we can add more playoff-teams, since the overall parity and quality of the NBA has improved. There's continuous speculation about expansion and I believe the time is ready for that. Actually I'd go from 30 to 36 teams. I'm thinking Vancouver, Seattle, Las Vegas, San Diego, Omaha and Kentucky. Move Memphis and New Orleans to the East.

Create 4 conferences (NE, SE, NW, SW) with 9 teams each. Nrs 3-6 (6 and 7 = play-in game?) in the standings play in the first round (make that a best-of-three), while Nrs 1-2 in the standings get a bye for the first round. Then after the second round (so two teams advancing from each conference) we cross with the other conferences and in such a way any NBA finals is possible (not restricted by an east and west team). The regular season consist of a home and away game, thus 70 games which should eliminate back-to-backs.

Also to further increase parity I'd advocate for an absolute hard salary cap. The spendings of the Lakers, Warriors, Nets and for the Celtics in the near future is extravagant.

I Agree, that we can expand beyond 30 Teams. We could add a 5th Round to the Playoffs; expanding on the Play-In.
Ex: 24 Team Playoffs = Give 8 Teams a Bye; and Run the New 1st Round with 8 vs 8.

It actually would be unlikey that a Team plays in all 5 Rounds. But, so be it, that would only be 1 Team.

[Birdon]

Give the 5 rings from MINNEAPOLIS Lakers to the Wolves.

Commissioner should play once a week for the bottom 6 teams. Mandatory 12 minutes per game.

Longer Draft. Up to 4 rounds.

G League tournament against random FIBA teams.

[Parliament10]

Adjust the Playoff Dates; particularly in the Finals. All the waiting this year is/was ridiculous.