NBA investigates potential negative impact of excessive scoring on competition

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."