NY Post · Dec 21, 2019
NBA’s 3-point ignorance is ruining basketball
Don’t just do something, stand there!
If you consider Spurs coach Gregg Popovich something of a basketball expert — if coaching six NBA championship teams in small-market San Antonio counts for something — here’s what he thought of the 3-point shot early this season:
“I still hate it. I’ll never embrace it. I don’t think it’s basketball. I think it’s a kind of circus act thing. Why don’t we have a 5-point shot? A 7-point shot?”
So we skip ahead to Dec. 12, when the locals seated in the Mexico City Arena for the Mavericks-Pistons game must’ve thought the game was muy loco. It was easy to figure out, like roulette and horseshoes, but it made little applicable sense.
