Some Questions regarding the NBA

[Skip 2 My Lou]

Do you think it is a good idea to create 2 NBA All-Star game each year?
like... All star A team and All star B team
choosing 12 from east and 12 from west in A team
and choosing 12 from east and 12 from west in B team
I think this can attract more fans to watch the all star game and NBA can earn more money by doing so.
And also, I think NBA should allow those playground rules and styles.
That would be fun...^O^
NBA should also expend the league by creating more new teams from abroad since those international players are getting better and better in modern days.
What do you all think?

[Andrew]

I don't think creating an A and B All-Star game would be necessary. The whole idea is to recognise the 12 best players from each conference. Having a second team of the next 24 best players from each conference might make up for some players getting snubbed, but it wouldn't be the "real" All-Star game. Also, when would it be held? If there's only 12 spots available on the team and making the All-Star game is a player's personal goal, then there's more incentive to play better if there's less of an opportunity of competing in the game.

I also think the playground rules should be left where they are. The All-Star game is part of a professional league's season - the same rules should apply (though the referees tend to be leniant for the first three quarters anyway) as any other game.

Expanding overseas is always an interesting topic, but I think it defeats the purpose of being the National Basketball Association, the professional league for the US.

[Steve04]

Expanding overseas would also deplete the talent level even more than its already diluted form.

[Venom]

xpanding overseas is always an interesting topic, but I think it defeats the purpose of being the National Basketball Association, the professional league for the US.

yes but if you look at it that way it's also stupid they have Toronto in the NBA...i mean Canada isn't in the US,right?

also,expanding over seas wouldn't "deplute the talent level" just because there would be teams overseas...talent level's gonna get "diluted" when the Charlotte team starts competing... Charlotte or say...Madrid...what's the difference?

but i don't think it's happening... not in the next 20 years...but who knows...

[Steve04]

Did I ever say Charlotte was not going to deplete the NBA talent lvl? they will, and expanding overseas will as well because while I am sure there are some superstars over there, are all those european players going to want to travel back and forth?

[Venom]

no you didn't....but they'll expand anyway so it doesn't make any difference if they expand to Kansas or Berlin...

like i said maybe in 20 years...maybe we'll have some really fuc*ing fast airplanes he he he

[Steve04]

Does not make a diff whether they expand to Berlin or in-USA?

That does not make any sense, now or 20 years from now the NBA is still dominantly US-born players and they will not want to travel all over the world like the harlem globetrotters, if the euros have the great talent they say, why cant they make their own league and have the NBA and that Euro league play each other for the real world title?

[Andrew]

yes but if you look at it that way it's also stupid they have Toronto in the NBA...i mean Canada isn't in the US,right?

Yes, having a team in Canada does kind of defeat the purpose of it being a National league. But Canada is a neighbour of the United States, and they are both on the North American continent. Getting traded to the Raptors still means crossing the border into another country, but imagine if a player was traded from New York to Paris, Madrid or Rome.

There's a similar situation here in Australia. In our National Rugby League, there is a New Zealand based team. Next season in our National Basketball League, there will also be a team in New Zealand, the Breakers.

[Nel]

Having a team outside america is too costly.

[Venom]

yes but if you look at it that way it's also stupid they have Toronto in the NBA...i mean Canada isn't in the US,right?

Yes, having a team in Canada does kind of defeat the purpose of it being a National league. But Canada is a neighbour of the United States, and they are both on the North American continent. Getting traded to the Raptors still means crossing the border into another country, but imagine if a player was traded from New York to Paris, Madrid or Rome.

There's a similar situation here in Australia. In our National Rugby League, there is a New Zealand based team. Next season in our National Basketball League, there will also be a team in New Zealand, the Breakers.

i agree with you that it's not really the same,but if somebody 25 years ago said that there would be two canada based teams,how serious would people take that? so who knows what will happen in the next 20 years? agreed?

Mavs coaching staff was in Belgrade last summer (Don Nelson was suspended for two games because they met with some kids,and had some sort of workouts - i don't know really)....anyway they were asked that,and they said it's possible... (and possible it won't happen )

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[Steve04]

yes but if you look at it that way it's also stupid they have Toronto in the NBA...i mean Canada isn't in the US,right?

Yes, having a team in Canada does kind of defeat the purpose of it being a National league. But Canada is a neighbour of the United States, and they are both on the North American continent. Getting traded to the Raptors still means crossing the border into another country, but imagine if a player was traded from New York to Paris, Madrid or Rome.

There's a similar situation here in Australia. In our National Rugby League, there is a New Zealand based team. Next season in our National Basketball League, there will also be a team in New Zealand, the Breakers.

i agree with you that it's not really the same,but if somebody 25 years ago said that there would be two canada based teams,how serious would people take that? so who knows what will happen in the next 20 years? agreed?

Mavs coaching staff was in Belgrade last summer (Don Nelson was suspended for two games because they met with some kids,and had some sort of workouts - i don't know really)....anyway they were asked that,and they said it's possible... (and possible it won't happen )

Actually 25 years ago they probally would have said it was possible, after Canada is right on the border of the USA, and if they would have said not as possible it would have been becaise of money not location, in 1975 while the NBA was popular it was not nearly as popular and widespread now and that is a factor when expanding to a foriegn country, HOCKEY ruled then.

[Andrew]

but if somebody 25 years ago said that there would be two canada based teams,how serious would people take that?

I'd say people would believe it, since in 1946/47 (the BAA/NBA's first season), there was a Canadian team - the Toronto Huskies. Furthermore, they were involved in the first game ever played (vs the New York Knicks).

[Venom]

didn't know about that one

but i hope you understand what i'm saying...who knows what will happen in the next 10/20/50 years...i doubt it but you never know

the fact that people mention it these days,gives the idea some credibility...agreed?

[Andrew]

The fact that it is mentioned, especially by Stern and other NBA executives means it's a possibility...but I'd say a very remote possibility, at least in the forseeable future.