Stein: Adam Silver, NBA Considering Removing Positions From All-NBA Teams

Thabo Sefolosha · Post #1 » by **Thabo Sefolosha** » Fri Jun 3, 2022 3:50 am

Post #2 » by **NO-KG-AI** » Fri Jun 3, 2022 3:52 am

Way overdue. We wouldn't have been arguing over whether Tim Duncan was a PF or C all those years if this had happened long ago, lol.

Swish1906 · Post #3 » by **Swish1906** » Fri Jun 3, 2022 3:55 am

Silver tired of Embiids crying voicemails on his cellphone

An Unbiased Fan · Post #4 » by **An Unbiased Fan** » Fri Jun 3, 2022 3:57 am

Hate it. It's works forever so why change it. The All-NBA award is probably the best and most reliable NBA award

JujitsuFlip · Post #5 » by **JujitsuFlip** » Fri Jun 3, 2022 4:05 am

I voted yes, but just make it like the ASG ballot. Not that difficult.

mowcrowbar · Post #6 » by **mowcrowbar** » Fri Jun 3, 2022 4:09 am

This is completely useless. I considered cutting all ties and moving to the moon, but that doesn't mean its going to happen.

Post #7 » by **G R E Y** » Fri Jun 3, 2022 4:18 am

If he's open to making changes, can we also take injured players off the vote list and tweak the percentages of fan vote versus everyone else? Hopefully it'll stop taking votes away from deserving players who get lost in these loopholes.

JujitsuFlip · Post #8 » by **JujitsuFlip** » Fri Jun 3, 2022 4:19 am

G R E Y wrote:If he's open to making changes, can we also take injured players off the vote list and tweak the percentages of fan vote versus everyone else? Hopefully it'll stop taking votes away from deserving players who get lost in these loopholes.

All-NBA not All-Star.

Free Rider · Post #9 » by **Free Rider** » Fri Jun 3, 2022 4:19 am

mowcrowbar wrote:This is completely useless. I considered cutting all ties and moving to the moon, but that doesn't mean its going to happen.

Would this be that hard to do? Are people really clamoring to maintain the sanctity of positions on the All-NBA teams. This is years overdue and would likely be overwhelmingly welcomed by most NBA fans.

Post #10 » by **G R E Y** » Fri Jun 3, 2022 4:20 am

JujitsuFlip wrote:
G R E Y wrote:If he's open to making changes, can we also take injured players off the vote list and tweak the percentages of fan vote versus everyone else? Hopefully it'll stop taking votes away from deserving players who get lost in these loopholes.
All-NBA not All-Star.

Oh yes I see that now, thank you. Point stands if anyone wants to make an All-Star changes thread lol

Post #11 » by **NO-KG-AI** » Fri Jun 3, 2022 4:21 am

People are arguing to keep it the same while NBA teams literally manipulate the "position" on the depth charts to try and angle their guys onto the teams. Just let them put the best 5 players on each team so we don't have to do all this posturing and manipulating.

GSWFan1994 · Post #12 » by **GSWFan1994** » Fri Jun 3, 2022 4:24 am

Just use 2 backcourt positions and 3 frontcourt, that's enough.

Adam Silver is just a disgrace. Tries to make everybody and everyone happy, it won't work out in the end.

Monky15 · Post #13 » by **Monky15** » Fri Jun 3, 2022 4:28 am

All NBA teams should have a big, guard and forward then fill in the last 2 spots with anyone.

An Unbiased Fan · Post #14 » by **An Unbiased Fan** » Fri Jun 3, 2022 4:29 am

GSWFan1994 wrote:Adam Silver is just a disgrace. Tries to make everybody and everyone happy, it won't work out in the end.

Pretty much. All these changes keep making the game worse

dhsilv2 · Post #15 » by **dhsilv2** » Fri Jun 3, 2022 4:35 am

GSWFan1994 wrote:Just use 2 backcourt positions and 3 frontcourt, that's enough.

Adam Silver is just a disgrace. Tries to make everybody and everyone happy, it won't work out in the end.

That doesn't work either! Why is a "small forward" front court for starters? You're going to tell me Leonard plays in the front court and not the back court? Butler? Middleton? Bogdanovic? I can go on but you get my point.

jokeboy86 · Post #16 » by **jokeboy86** » Fri Jun 3, 2022 4:47 am

An Unbiased Fan wrote:
GSWFan1994 wrote:Adam Silver is just a disgrace. Tries to make everybody and everyone happy, it won't work out in the end.

Pretty much. All these changes keep making the game worse

He's really the anti-David Stern. He panders way too much to the new casual fans and national talking heads in the media. Is he that scared of ESPN/FS1 criticizing him if he makes a mistake? I would love to be on the NBPA the next time CBA negotiations come up.

Sark · Post #17 » by **Sark** » Fri Jun 3, 2022 4:50 am

Dumb idea. All NBA now will just be top 15 in MVP voting.

jokeboy86 · Post #18 » by **jokeboy86** » Fri Jun 3, 2022 4:53 am

NO-KG-AI wrote:People are arguing to keep it the same while NBA teams literally manipulate the "position" on the depth charts to try and angle their guys onto the teams. Just let them put the best 5 players on each team so we don't have to do all this posturing and manipulating.

Problem is it's guaranteed that some players will hate the new setup especially since there are contract implications upon making an All-NBA team. You could end up with years where possibly certain positions end up with maybe two players or even one making any of the three teams.

Post #19 » by **zimpy27** » Fri Jun 3, 2022 4:57 am

Nothing could be gained by this.. Keep it historical.

Next we will be basing MVP purely on highest PIPM score or some other single year impact algorithm.

NZB2323 · Post #20 » by **NZB2323** » Fri Jun 3, 2022 5:02 am

I think it’s silly how they’ve had the teams. 2 guards, 2 forwards, and a center. So a team can have 2 point guards, 2 shooting guards, 2 small forwards, or 2 power forwards but it can’t have 2 centers?

I kinda think that it should either go: PG, SG, SF, PF, C, or it should be position less.

And for much of NBA history I’d argue that a small forward is more like a shooting guard. Tmac, Vince Carter, and Paul Pierce were more like shooting guards than power forwards.

So for most of NBA history I’d prefer if the positions were:

Point Guard
Wing
Wing
Big
Big

But now teams are like:

Point Guard
Wing
Wing
Wing
Big

Or they could take the All-star format:

Backcourt
Backcourt
Front court
Front court
Front court

Are you in favor?