The NBA Star Games classifications collapsed 13 percent of a season, while the regular league season audience decreased five points of the break, according to Main office sports.
That is an obvious concern for a league that once dominated the attention of Americans throughout winter and spring, but it is not a problem with a clear solution.
Critics have accused current players of being too soft, also 'awakened' and less competitive than their predecessors.
But a criticism of the League benefits from a new shocking statistic compiled by Sportico. With many fans of the old school complaining about the excessive dependence of the modern NBA in the shot of 3 points, something that often distracts from other areas of the game, the website published a table using statistics of the basketball reference.
Surprisingly, only 4 percent of all field goal attempts came from the range of 3 points during the 1985 NBA season, which makes sense, since the long ball did not exist in the League until 1979.
Now, however, that brand is somehow found in 42 percent, which means that almost half of all field goal attempts are being taken long -range. And this trend has been in snowball for years, with records to make and attempts 3 apparently established every season that dates back to a decade.
Anthony Edwards #5 of the Minnesota Timberwolves shoots the ball against Chet Holmgren
The Warriors star, Stephen Curry, has drained more triple than anyone in the NBA history
“It's crazy,” wrote former NFL star Jumbo Elliott in X after seeing the Boston Celtics beat the New York Knicks. “He saw the Celtics (Veteran Center Al) Horford today to have a lack of coincidence in a Knicks guard down and twice after being fed with the ball by shooting three points.”
“It is not surprising that the game is impossible to see today, brick after brick, even in situations where you do not need to shoot triples,” added another.
“They need to go back again,” said a fan, withdrawing the decision of the league to expand the shooting arch for the 1997-98 season. “The 3 pites shot has ruined the game.”
It is true that 3 -point shooting helps NBA teams space the floor. Let's take the Golden State Warriors, who benefit from having the 3 -point more prolific set of the game, Stephen Curry, taking out the defenders of the painting and towards the perimeter.
But the emphasis of the 3 -point shooting has reached the expense of the average and post -rank offensive, where Michael Jordan tormented the defenses during the most popular era of the League.
“My 3 -point shooting is something I don't want to excel because it takes away all the phases of my game,” Jordan told a television team in the 1990s. 'My game is false, it leads to the hole, penetrates , it unfolds, overturned, whatever. When you have that mentality, as I discovered in the first game of doing 3s, you don't go to the hole.
'You go to the 3 -point line and start sitting there waiting for someone to find you. That is not my mentality. I don't want to create that because it takes away other parts of my game.
Jordan's former teammate and the current Bulls analyst, Stacey King, shared that interview on Instagram, where many fans agreed with the Hall of Fame.
Jordan once said that he didn't want to excel in a 3 -point shot because he could damage his game
“This right here,” wrote a fan. 'Basketball used to be a ball movement, an excellent step and see athletes fly through the air. Nobody wants to see 80 30 -point shots during a game. No more athletics on display.
For his part, the NBA Commissioner, Adam Silver, believes that a league of cookie cutter crimes is a bad thing, although he did not stop to blame the problem strictly for the 3 -point shots.
“The answer is yes, (we are having) many discussions about the basketball style (played),” said Silver in December, as cited by ESPN. 'I would not reduce it to a so -called 3 -point shooting problem. I think we observe more holistically the level of ability on the floor, the diversity of the offensive, the reception of fans to the game, all of the above.
But as for the popularity of the game, Silver did not seem too worried.
“I think the game is in a great place,” he said. 'I love seeing the games, and I think we have some of the most skilled athletes in the world competing, and it is unfair, I think, the players that group them in categories such as 3 -point shooters or a medium or large man shooter shooter playing under the basket. It is an incredible game.