NBA basketball is first and foremost a league for sports entertainment. Through the years, it has devised and used its own rules to uplift the entertainment value of the game and, in the process, won millions of fans worldwide.
Consequently, a lot of people have put NBA players on a pedestal, treating them as stars.
But when the rest of the world finally caught up with the American players and even began to beat them in international competitions, the league had to adjust its rules, because having their superstars beaten was definitely far from entertaining to NBA fans.
So, if the real competitive basketball is the FIBA-sanctioned tournaments, did the NBA actually degraded the game of basketball by using a different set of rules through the years?
And now that the league is slowly but surely reverting to the FIBA rules, is it rectifying the mistakes it committed against the game of basketball?
Had the NBA adopted the international rules right from its inception, would fans have enjoyed a higher level of basketball?
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Steven Resnick 9 months ago
Basketball was created here the International Basketball leagues need to to have the competitions played under the same rules as the NBA. Not the other way around.
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sam the fact checker 9 months ago
steven that was a very american thing to say...haha...of course each country wants there way to be played...
plus canada was invented by a canadian...why not have it there way...
...hmm and also maybe becasue theres only 1 country that plays by nba rules...and about 100 other countries that play by fiba rules...(i actually dont know if other country play by fiba rules or have there own set of rules...im just guessing...)
im not saying basketball has degraded or anything...im just saying there needs to be one set of universal rules that everyone everywhere uses...
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Elmer Crisostomo 9 months ago
Tnx 4 your comment steven. It's the NBA who's adjusting since dream teams' loses.
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Steven Resnick 9 months ago
The Olympics only come around every 4 years so of course it's going to be fun to watch different players from different countries, but the refs overseas are a joke and it will continue to be a joke. Just ask Rod Benson about the differences are between D-League refs and the French refs? I'm sorry but if the international teams want to play like the NBA stars do they need to start playing by the same rules as the NBA.
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Elmer Crisostomo 9 months ago
Steven, I think playing like the NBA stars became detrimental to the 'team game' which international basketball is all about. The Redeem Team adjusted to international basketball by discarding one-on-one plays which have been the trademark of the NBA through the years. Thank for ur comment.
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