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[QUOTE="Knicks411, post: 4571395, member: 767"]
I was going to look at the stats and basically say well actually, scoring is at a similar level to where it was in the Bird/Magic/MJ era, which is the era boomers seem to think was the peak of basketball.  And before this year, that would've been the case.  The average team the last few years was around 111/112 points per game; in the 80's we peaked around 111 points per game.  Very similar.  But this year, we're up to 114.3 points per game, which is the most since the 60s.  (In 1962, the league averaged 118.8 points per game and shot 42.6% from the field; the average team took 20 more shots per game than now.  Wilt Chamberlain was amazing, don't get me wrong guys, but you can't average 30 rebounds a game unless teams are shooting, and missing, a lot of shots)

The absolute #1 issue the league has is making sure the star players play as often as they can.  All the other stuff, to me at least, is whatever.  The in season tournaments could be cool. (Or it could suck!) I'm a soccer fan, they have multiple competitions going on, in college basketball you have your early season tournaments, conference tournaments, etc.  But it sucks for the league if you have star players just sitting games out to rest.  I understand where teams are coming from.  But it sucks.

I remember in the 21 season, the finals were pushed out to July because the season started later; i thought maybe something like that could help.  Extend the length of the season, same number of games over a little bit longer period of time.
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