Why REMOVING This One Rule Changed The NBA FOREVER (Ft. Kobe, Jordan, and A Lot of Fouls)

The NBA has changed a lot of rules, but there was this one rule that was changed to help certain players be better. It’s a NBA conspiracy that tried to help Jordan, Kobe, Nash, and so many others and it was the removal of hand checking, but why was it no longer in the #NBA?

A lot of people like to call the NBA soft now compared to this. Oh, maybe it has gotten softer. But a big part of that was hand-checking, the rule that allowed grown men to throw hands on each other legally. Now I know how that sounds, but what I meant is allowing defenders to put their hands on the other player on the perimeter. So the question is why was it removed? It’s all actually some conspiracy.

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Hand-checking was in place all the way until 1994 when they modified it and then completely removed it in 2004. And everyone keeps saying that the NBA is softer and a big part of that is hand checking. Yeah, hand checking. You gave me a great response on my last video with this editing style, so I’ma do it again. If you got a problem, fight me. And drop a like, it helps me out and if we get to 1500 likes, I’ll release a video within the next 2 days. Also, give me some names for the gaming channel I’m starting up, I’m all ears and let’s just run it.

So the NBA in the 70s and 80s was typically big man dominated. A lot of it was due to the rules and how physicality was allowed instead of being called for fouls. You simply needed to be bigger and stronger than the guy next to you. Hand-checking allowed defenders to put their hands and forearms into the offensive player in their chest or hips to impede their path to the basket. That’s some tough stuff. In 1994, hand-checking was modified, but in reality nothing actually happened. They had modified it because Michael Jordan had left and the league had saw perimeter play increase ratings. The NBA supposedly had eliminated hand-checking, but that was faker than Kobe making a comeback from retirement. MJ made his comeback and the league stopped really enforcing the hand-checking rule because their ratings went back up.

So hand-checking would still be allowed and be uncalled. 10 years down the line in 2004 in the Michael Jordan-less league, the NBA wanted perimeter play to back on top. They thought the NBA was getting a little slow. They might’ve been right. Mark Cuban had seen the 2004 finals and how the Pistons had constantly bodied Kobe, enough to impact his path to the basket. It made enough of a difference and so he talked with the league. So in the summer of 2004, the NBA completely eliminated hand-checking on the perimeter. And so after hand-checking, perimeter play dominated. If you look at the MVPs right before hand-checking, Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett had won. Right after hand-checking was removed, Steve Nash won back to back MVPs. In fact, since then the only non-perimeter player to win MVP was Nowitzki and even then he was a big man who lived on the perimeter. The NBA got what it wanted. What it wanted was ratings without MJ. While they might have quoted the safety of players, the NBA was trying to help perimeter players thrive and hope that the same MJ like effect would happen and it did. It’s hard to tell with Kobe’s numbers since he was developing, but his numbers in the 2005-2006 season just went up to a career hight 35 points per game, you know when he was carrying Smush Parker. Kobe 4 MVP. There were other rule changes as well like the 3 second defensive rule, but uhhh. I think the impact of hand-checking was best explained by Kenny The Jet Smith.

Essentially, it allowed ball handlers to have so much more space and freedom. It opened up the whole game. Like legit players couldn’t dribble the ball up the court without getting touched. In today’s game, that’s a flagrant 1. (beep that’s an exaggeration). Across the league, the average points per game jumped by 4 from 93 to 97 and would continue to go up. So to all those triggered fans saying the NBA isn’t softer, the NBA legit removed hand-checking so that perimeter players could thrive and so that the more physical, slower pace of the league be removed. They were trying to make the league softer, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the league has gotten worse. If you want me to get into all the details about the impact of hand-checking lemme know and lemme know what other videos you wanna see, but what do you think?

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