Warning: you will disagree with at least 3 of these.
82 games is too many. Stars rest. Teams tank. The play-in tournament means you only need to be mediocre to make the playoffs. The real NBA season starts in April. Everything before that is preseason with stats.
The mid-range game was beautiful. Now it's "threes or layups, nothing else." Every team plays the same way. The math is right, but the product is worse. Give me DeRozan's mid-range over another corner three.
6-0 > 4-6. Jordan never lost a Finals. Jordan never needed to form a superteam. Jordan retired on top (twice). The stats favor LeBron. The winning favors Jordan. Winning matters more.
Fans hate it. But Kawhi won a championship doing it. Players' careers last longer. The quality of playoff basketball is higher when stars are healthy. We're trading regular season entertainment for playoff excellence.
The West has been better than the East for 20 years. A 48-win West team misses the playoffs while a 38-win East team gets in. Seed 1-16 regardless of conference. The best teams should play each other.
100 points in a game. 55 rebounds in a game. Led the league in assists as a center. Never fouled out in 1,045 games. The stats are so absurd they sound fake. If Wilt played today with modern training, he'd average 40.