{"id":656113,"date":"2026-05-07T19:13:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/656113\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T19:13:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:13:36","slug":"nba-players-call-for-4-point-line-rule-changes-fewer-games-expansion-and-more-in-anonymous-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/656113\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Players Call for 4-Point Line, Rule Changes, Fewer Games, Expansion and More in Anonymous Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"

What changes should be made to the NBA will always be a discussion among players, front offices and fans, and more than 150 players recently had the chance to voice their opinions. <\/p>\n

The Athletic’s Joe Vardon, Sam Amick and Josh Robbins<\/a> recently polled players on a variety of topics, from on-court changes to scheduling. <\/p>\n

When asked what changes they would make if they were commissioner for a day, 10.5 percent of players called for no back-to-backs, fewer games and rule changes favoring defense.<\/p>\n

“I would make defense legal again,” one player said. “Let basketball be basketball. Let’s tilt it one way, because that’s what we think people want to see. Let’s just let basketball be basketball. It’s a beautiful game.”<\/p>\n

Just under 10 percent called for expansion, while 7.2 percent of players want to see penalties for referees. Only 3.3 percent of players said they wanted to see a 4-point line added, and even fewer called for changes to the All-Star Game. <\/p>\n

The average NBA fan would likely say that tanking is one of the biggest issues in the NBA, but players don’t see it that way, as 43.4 percent called it a “little problem,” while 28.3 percent called it a “big problem,” and 28.3 percent said it’s “not a problem.” <\/p>\n

The NBA unveiled<\/a> its anti-tanking proposal last week, and it plans to penalize the teams that finish in the bottom three with reduced odds to land the No. 1 pick in the lottery. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What changes should be made to the NBA will always be a discussion among players, front offices and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-656113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}