NBA to clamp down on "pre-game routines"

[RiceRockets]

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Talk about stupid, is it really such a problem? Seems to me like the league each year wants to take out a bit more of the 'personality' of the NBA. It's already bad enough that the players are meant to be robots and never react to anything.

I don't remember fans getting upset and booing when players starting to shake hands before the game starts? This is another "don't fix what isn't broken" situation.

[RedRedemption]

Idiotic and completely baffling rule change.
David Stern sucks.

[heypartner]

I hear Royce White is already lobbying for special treatment, because pregame countdowns, buzzers and threats of delay of game penalties might freak him out.

[Dreamin]

Stern is such a nazi.

[JayGoogle]

Stupid.

I don't understand why Stern is trying to quell personality when it is the personalities of the NBA players that sells his league. The fans enjoy this stuff, no one was complaining about a extra 5 mins.

Honestly just start the game 5 mins earlier if he's such a stickler for time.

Next thing you know they'll be giving out techs for on the court celebrations like when Westbrook holsters his three or Novak's discount doublecheck. That's the next step, hopefully Silver isn't as lame as Stern.

[Carl Herrera]

Great idea!

All that Lin/Fields Bible reading routine turned fans off. Nobody cares about the religious faith of assets.

[sidestep]

Zach Lowe article:
Eliminating Pregame Rituals Won't Shorten NBA Games — But These Changes Might

http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-tr...-changes-might

[likestohypeguy]

Ridiculous.

Ultimately this is not saving any significant time, & besides the nba needs to recognize its primary demographic, because most kids eat this type of stuff up, lebron/dwight, the dancing & skits etc.

[Shaud]

It's not that big of a deal

[JuanValdez]

Pregame rituals might be entertaining in the arena, but they make bad television. I won't miss it. They should also cut the national anthem.

[BigBenito]

I am in favor of this change.

[apollo33]

No more stupid chalk tossing

count me in, go F yourself Lebron

[Shroopy2]

Originally Posted by sidestep Zach Lowe article: Eliminating Pregame Rituals Won't Shorten NBA Games — But These Changes Might http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-tr...-changes-might

Thats a nice article

There's this suggestion

Actually Make the Games Shorter Why do NBA games have to be 48 minutes? Games played under FIBA rules, including at the Olympics, last only 40 minutes. Those games clocked in at a delightfully brisk 90 minutes in real time, though they featured far fewer in-game commercial interruptions than would ever be possible in the NBA. Still: Think about how much more time we’d all have if we could budget a clean two hours for a live NBA game.

2 words: PLAYER'S UNION

Less time required to play can take away a roster spot or 2. Player's union wouldnt go for that. It wouldnt affect the stars, it might actually HELP them. Kobe, Steve Nash, Dwight Howard and Pau Gasol really arent caring what happens with Andrew Goudelock, him being gone might be even a little more money for them. But unions are about the MIDLEVEL to scrub players banding together to get the money

[Ramathorn006]

Originally Posted by JuanValdez Pregame rituals might be entertaining in the arena, but they make bad television. I won't miss it. They should also cut the national anthem.

What? Hell no. For most Americans the national anthem means a lot more than just words, Juan.

[yobod]

Originally Posted by Ramathorn006 What? Hell no. For most Americans the national anthem means a lot more than just words, Juan.

Your sarcasm meter needs new batteries.

[edwardc]

All for the change do that stuff in the locker room when you get on the court it's time to play basketball.

[Ricksmith]

delete

[entirelydave]

Originally Posted by heypartner I hear Royce White is already lobbying for special treatment, because pregame countdowns, buzzers and threats of delay of game penalties might freak him out.

You realize his anxiety issues is something about him that he CANNOT control right? Joke about better stuff. I'd rather be laughing right now than typing this.

[Deckard]

Stern is such a souless, money grubbing prick. A sorry human being who would be far more content if the NBA consisted of automatons without emotion, a league made up of The Stepford Players, who produce something that isn't basketball, but rather a form of video game, the players decked out as walking, talking advertisements. He wants a game of purity. The purity of a money machine without thought, with every machine the same, except for variations of size and color. With every arena a 7/11 of overpriced Twinkies, beer, and Cokes. With superb seats for the 1%, and nose bleeders for the rest of the fans who take his bizarre rules, and increasingly bizarre game, with a grimace and a crooked grin, wondering why their beloved game has become so hard to recognze. Wondering why they are there.

Wondering where this will ultimately lead.

[Ramathorn006]

Originally Posted by yobod Your sarcasm meter needs new batteries.

I don't even know the guy so how the f am I supposed to tell he is being sarcastic over the internet.