Each week during the 2024-25 NBA season, we will take a deeper dive into some of the league’s biggest storylines in an attempt to determine whether trends are based more in fact or fiction moving forward.
Fact or Fiction: Something is seriously wrong with the NBA
I thought the discussion about "what is wrong with the NBA" was mainly driven by social media, where people who purportedly like basketball were spending the early part of this season searching for answers to a decline in television ratings, but the conversation reached the mainstream this week. Commissioner Adam Silver addressed concerns in Las Vegas, where NBA Cup participants were also asked about the health of the league, as "Inside the NBA" hosts Charles Barkley and Shaquille O'Neal floated theories.