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[APG]

Originally Posted by chseagle

What pro sport/league doesn't have some sort of entertainment basis?

Well that's my main point. All major professional leagues in America have their basis in sport but with entertainment rules/philosophies/enforcement.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by AllPurposeGamer

Well that's my main point. All major professional leagues in America have their basis in sport but with entertainment rules/philosophies/enforcement.

And there's the problem right there. The NBE doesn't enforce it's own rules. There's no consistency in play-calling that I can discern. What might be a travel now is a legal crab dribble 2 minutes later. And good luck to anyone that tries to figure out what a foul is.

[APG]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

And there's the problem right there. The NBE doesn't enforce it's own rules. There's no consistency in play-calling that I can discern. What might be a travel now is a legal crab dribble 2 minutes later. And good luck to anyone that tries to figure out what a foul is.

I dunno...I watch plenty of NBA games and don't have any problems with the playcalling and discerning fouls and violations. Are there a couple of calls I wonder about? Sure, but that's true for me when watching and NCAA game or a high school game.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

And there's the problem right there. The NBE doesn't enforce it's own rules. There's no consistency in play-calling that I can discern. What might be a travel now is a legal crab dribble 2 minutes later. And good luck to anyone that tries to figure out what a foul is.

I am not a big fan of the NBA, but not because of how they enforce their rules, but because of the overall style of play. I also do not like that there are a bunch of players in the league that just cannot play.

But to say that they do not enforce their rules is laughable. For one I do not watch a lot of NBA games, but I see more traveling called that I can understand then I do in many NCAA games. And the NBA has rules that I have come to find out are very specific for certain parts of the game, like what happens in the post and how the defender is allowed to put their forearm on the ball handler.

The same criticism could be say in every league. The difference is that the NBA players are not like Payton Manning and did not grow up middle class, so everything that the NBA does gets a bad rap when the very same things take place in other leagues. I cannot even watch baseball half the time because they cannot enforce a simply rule to speed up the game and allow players to take all kinds of time which delays the game. And do not get me started on strike zones and other rules that almost never get enforced, but the NBA is the only one that does that? Give me a break. Again, not a personal fan anymore, but all pro leagues are about entertainment. And they all have rules that reflect that very thing or they would not survive.

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