After silently judging as I scrolled through posts riddled with hot takes from 5 years ago I thought…
What are your hottest takes about how the NBA will look 5 years from now? (Go wild with your guesses, nobody will be judging you…)
My hot takes are
- Josh Giddy will be in the MVP race
- The Booklyn Nets will have either made or won the finals due to Bridges and Ben Simmons showing out
- LeBron will continue to refuse to retire, while still putting up 18/4/4. And will blame it on wanting to play with his wife’s uncles barbers daughters stepson 17 years from now.
Five years from now, in 2028, the NBA will…
• …still call it a blocking foul when the ball-handler drives into a defender who was matching pace and maintaining position between them and the basket.
• …still have a “restricted area” that causes unnecessary delays to review whether an obvious offensive foul can technically be called a defensive foul based on tiny positioning differences.
• …still require defenders to remain perfectly motionless when the ball-handler intentionally runs into them at full speed, and if they move even slightly to protect themself it will be a blocking foul.
• …still allow the ball-handler to get free throws by jumping into a defender who jumped vertically to contest a pump-fake, instead of needing to make a basketball play that takes advantage of the defender not being able to react again quickly.
• …still let players put their hand under the ball while dribbling, and take extra steps while “gathering”.