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Ben Taylor of Thinking Basketball questions why the NBA has stopped calling offensive fouls when players charge into someone or use their off-arm showing clips from just a decade ago where those moves were illegal and the players didn't even argue the calls when they happened
3.8mBrian Windhorst There's a lot of people that made a lot of assumptions about Adam Silver along the way This is as big of a punishment has ever been doled out in the NBA He has been presumed to be soft on crime to a certain certain extend That's not something you can say today
53sWhen Yao Ming was playing he could get called for a foul just for breathing while opponents could smack him in the head and the refs would look the other way Both Jeff Van Gundy and Rick Adelman said Yao was being singled out by officials
3.0mThe refs would call a foul on Yao Ming for practically just breathing on the court yet stay silent even when an opponent smacked him in the head and avoid his angry stare Both Jeff Van Gundy and Rick Adelman often argued that Yao was being singled out by the officials
2.4mYao Ming could get called for a foul just for breathing on the court while refs would sometimes look the other way even when they saw an opponent smack him in the head right in front of them Both Jeff Van Gundy and Rick Adelman said Yao was being singled out by the officials
2.4mAdam Silver answers Pablo Torre's question regarding the growing concern that wealthy individuals and entities are using the approval of the NBA to purchase credibility in the eyes of the public meaning fans and whether he plans on changing anything about the due diligence process
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