The International Basketball Opinion

By ALAN WALLS Welcome to The International Basketball Opinion , the world’s only blog specifically dedicated to international basketball news, business, and current events. It is no secret, the NBA regular season needs a reboot, a redo, a redesign. An extreme makeover if you will. After 75 years, it is INDEED time for some drastic changes! If you ask the average NBA fan, they will tell you that the regular season is: Too long. Boring. Subject to TANKING (aka The Process)! Anticlimactic with most of the playoff teams already being determined within the first 15-20 games. Fil led with unimportant and/or uninteresting games (good vs. bad teams and bad vs. even worse teams). Too much player load management . THE REAL NBA SEASON ACCORDING TO ME   I look at the NBA season this way: The preseason practices and games = training camp. Regular season games up to the All-Star Game (ASG) = preseason. Christmas Day games = a special optical illusion (a mirage if you will) of top-level c...

  By ALAN WALLS Welcome to The International Basketball Opinion, the world’s only blog specifically dedicated to international basketball news, business and current events. I’m back… Christmas, New Year’s, COVID, 5-year-old son, work, life… but I am finally back! And with a vengeance. I will attempt to rip off three blog entries back-to-back-to-back. Three-peat if you will, to quote the great Pat Riley. I need to keep them short (somewhat) and to the point in order to get through them. Here we go… In February, the 2022 FIBA Women’s World Cup (WC), which will be hosted by Australia, qualifying tournaments took place in: Belgrade, Serbia (2 tournaments) Osaka, Japan Washington DC, USA   16 team competed for 12 spots in the 2022 WC. Only 12? you ask. Read my take on that here! Each tournament (group) consisted of four (un)competitively balanced teams playing each other in a round-robin format to then only eliminate one team. The four groups were headed by: ...