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NBA investigates potential negative impact of excessive scoring on competition
NBAThursday, 29 February 2024 at 15:00
The NBA management is reportedly evaluating whether excessive
scoring is becoming a problem. In the last two years, there have been four players who
managed to register 70 points in a game. Previously, in the history of the NBA,
only four players managed to register 70 points in a game.
A report from ESPN quoted NBA’s head of basketball operations
Joe Dumars who confirmed that the management is evaluating whether that is
becoming a problem for the league.
"It is a topic that we're monitoring,” he said.
"We're diving in right now to make sure that we're on the right side of
this."
Minnesota Timberwolves centre Rudy Gobert has also been
quoted in a report where he stated that the rules generally favour the offensive
players.
"The rules really favor offense, in general, right
now," Gobert rued. "Keeping a team under a hundred is way more rare
than it was a few years back."
On the other hand, Sacramento Kings head coach Mike Brown was
of the opinion that players scoring buckets of points shows that technically,
they are getting better than the ones in the past.
"Back then, you only had a couple of guys around the
league that you really had to worry about from the 3-point line," he said.
"I don't know if there's anything [to curtail scoring]. Guys are just so
freaking good compared to back then that it would be tough."
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