Take a fresh approach to its game presentations. Remember the long-ago time when throwing T-shirts into the stands and airing video of dancing fans on the scoreboard were swell new ideas? They are neither new nor swell any longer. In fact, they drive my crazy. During timeouts, I twitch and writhe like Chief Dreyfus in the presence of Inspector Clouseau. I am begging the NBA to come up with something swell and new before my nervous breakdown. So innovate already. Please, innovate.
I have offered my suggestions on improving the competitive play of the league, but have been sitting on an idea for game presentation. Actually, I pitched it to Mark Cuban and he was not interested.
When I go to games, I hate watching the tired down-time acts (except the Sacramento Kings' Hip-Hop Dance Crew. I have said it before, but I'd love to see them ditch traditional cheerleaders in favor of the hip-hop crew).
I'm often frustrated that they never show highlights from other games. I'd rather watch a game at home and see highlights of other games than attend the game, deal with the know-nothings behind me and the 300lbs guy next to me scarfing down an extra large helping of garlic fries and have to sit through some lady throwing plates on her head at half-time.
Why not put ipod connections at each seat that allow fans to plug-in their video ipods to the arena feed and choose highlights from other games in progress? The highlight feeds are already produced for espn, fox, comcast or whoever is televising the game. And, the technology to install it cannot be that difficult - if entire cities intend to go wireless, I imagine there is a way to get an ipod connection to the seats and a feed to an NBA highlight package at timeouts and between periods.
That is what I would like to see. I would like the NBA to cater more to the passionate fans. An NBA game should be more about the basketball game and less about distracting a large audience from an often unwatchable, and almost always too long game.
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I could not agree more with this. I think the real problem is the length of the games with all the timeouts. See section VII for more details at
http://www.nba.com/analysis/rules_5.html?nav=ArticleList
It used to be that you could go to a game at 7 and be home by 9:30 or 10 if it was a foul happy (donaghy) game. Now with all the timeouts and the 12 minute quarters the game drags on forever.
Be honest Brian, the only reason you don't like the cheerleaders is because you are used to watching the Royal Court Hags jumping around. They should break out with some real cheerleaders, like in the movie "The Replacements" That would be entertainment.
I think your idea could be accomplished in a much easier way. They could simply play the highlights on the giant scoreboard that is over the court. They already play the in-game highlights. An offshoot of your idea would be to enable each seat to submit votes or the like and make the game experience interactive.
I could not disagree more. I love basketball games and when I'm there I don't want them to end. I embrace every part of it, although during halftime I could see something like this being useful.
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