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Originally Posted by Pantherdreams

The biggest problem is that professional sport is often used as the guide or standards by which amateur sports are judged, create rules, and institute policies. The more that sport as an industry keeps being lumped in with sport as a amateur recreational endeavour (thank you Olympics and NCAA for keeping those waters muddy) the more the uninformed general public is going to treat what happens at the Coliseum the same as they end up treating the little kids and officials/coaches in the training pits. This isn't an NBA problem this is a public relations/site management problem for amateur leagues and associations compounded by the general masses inability to make inferential and critical tangents of thoughts in regards to sport culture.

Highly agree