What the NBA needs to do to bring the passion back?

Question

The NBA has to stop treating the basketball players like their children. Of course their safety is important, but you have to let the players say things they want to say. The NBA has to let players stand up for their teammates when theres a hard foul. The NBA should allow players to argue with players that hard foul them. Of course these kinds of things should be stopped if it gets into a fight, but the NBA needs its intensity back. When Micheal Jordan argued and stood up for his players, all his fans/teammates were behind him, and I bet they were inspired by it to. Now the NBA is as boring as the Spurs playing badmiton. Thank you David Stern, you have turned this sport around.

Answer 1

We need MJ.

No one can be like Mike

Answer 2

Because the NBA doesn't want to have another Detroit Piston / Indiana Pacer brawl incident occur again. As awesome as it may sound when the fans back up the players but it's not acceptable when they join them in verbally or physically attacking the road team in their arenas. Basketball has never been a sport where the whole team would get involved during an altercation (unless they're breaking up the fight) like how baseball is. It's within the last couple of years that the level of chaos has escalated to extreme heights. Even this season's altercation between the Knicks and the Nuggets almost produced the same ill effect like the Piston/Indiana incident before. David Stern is trying to minimize the level of confrontation between players by installing rigid rules to discourage them into thinking twice before doing something stupid.

I agree that the NBA has overstepped it’s boundaries this season when it gave their referees an infinite amount of power to give out technicals. Whether it'd be arguing with a call to throwing the ball madly at a ref, or kicking it out of bounds - these actions are all petty individual faults that should be treaty as it is, a human flaw. The NBA is still a sport, which means you need that fire and competitive will to excel. To go out every game and maintain that level of aggressiveness, you need passion. Without passion, there can be no consistent performance but passion happens to be incorporated with human flaws. That’s why the NBA took a step back with the technical calls during the regular season when officials allowed players to question a call or even react to it. The National Basketball Association just like any other league, is not perfect. League management are still trying to figure out what fits and what doesn't works. That is also why veteran referee Joey Crawford was suspended for the rest of the season because of his unjustified ejection of Tim Duncan. We should give the league a chance to correct their mistakes.

However, as fans of this sport, we need to voice our opinions by writing to the NBA and the Player’s Union explaining our displeasure with how the league conducts itself. You can’t just sit here and complain about the sport and yet, do nothing about it. The interest of the NBA is catered towards the fans and those who watch it. The fans are the bloodlines who pay the big bucks, to keep the arenas selling tickets and maintain jersey sales of their favorite players. So without the fans, the NBA is nothing. We need to stand up and allow our voices to be heard. Only until that happens, will the NBA improve as a whole, from the perspective of those running the sport to the point of view of the fans who enjoy the game.

Answer 3

The Eastern conference needs to get better. The west has won 7 of the last 9 rings. This year the Spurs played a team that probably would not have been in the top 4 or 5 teams in the west for the title. People realized that when The Suns and Spurs played each other it was the final and that happened in the 2nd round. Everyone got excited when the Warriors upset the MAvs but even that hurt the west conf. final. Passion is fine unless things don't go the way you want it too as well. The Suns were penalized just like every team in the past was for breaking that specific rule. You can and I know you will keep bringing it up, but you are asking for preferential treatment. Yet are unwilling to accept the rule as is. I don't think the other teams in the past(Knicks, Heat) would have appreciated the rule just sliding.

Answer 4

Players need to have personal pride. They need to play hard every night. Not walk off the court early if their team is loosing. Or when rehabing, get over weight and not into shape. Or stop whining about refs and suspensions when they all know how the games going to be called.

Once the public see the players actually earn the obscene amounts of cash these guys are getting, then maybe the fans will cheer for them.

Answer 5

The refs have too much power in determining the outcome of games, let the players play, get rid of the block/charge fouls, and let players express themselves without getting technicals.

Answer 6

bring back MJ, magic, bird, dr. j..

let all d dirty players in the 70's and 80's and the rest of the pistons bad boys do the officiating! i bet they wouldnt give anyone a flagrant foul, even if u punch ur opponent in the face! and its possible there will be no foul called in a game.

Answer 7

no more ref power look at two example in the playoffs game 4 of spurs suns and game 4 of spurs jazz not fair to give a team ( a boring team at that) that much more of an advantage just not fair.

Answer 8

they just need to get rid of all the dumb fouls like palming and charging its no fun if somebody gets dunked on and they cant even count the points because of a charge and u cant even cross anybody over and more because thats now a palming and they need to get rid of that lane volation too thats doing to much

Answer 9

market the team and sport and stay away from the individual players

Answer 10

it wouldnt hurt any if they had an eastern conference at all. it would also help if newyork and boston and maybe philly actually mattered....they havent in years!