New Year’s Resolutions for the NBA

For some asinine reason, each team is awarded three timeouts in the five minute overtime period.

We’re not even talking about mandatory media timeouts here just like overtime, these are bonus timeouts.

Neither the Warriors or the Lakers used a single one of their three timeouts in overtime until there were eight seconds left in the overtime period.

There is absolutely no reason to be playing a Ke$ha song in a tie game with 15 seconds left while the ball is getting inbounded.

Keep the players safe from getting tripped or faceplanting into a camera and move these guys back, pronto.

Stop counting all shots behind halfcourt as field goal attempts Time is winding a down, a player has a shot at a heave, and he waits to hear the buzzer before he lets the shot go so it won’t hurt his numbers.

Any shot behind halfcourt is almost certainly a buzzer beating shot, so why count it towards a player’s field goal attempts? It’s simple stop punishing players for trying to score in these situations, and we’ll see guys actually try to make shots from unfathomable distances.