Stephen Curry is changing the game of basketball, but his team's dominance over the past two seasons isn’t about to change the NBA’s rule book.
NBA commissioner Adam Silver said Thursday he doesn’t think the league will make adjustments in the near future because of anything the league’s unanimous MVP is doing.
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"Not anytime soon, and largely because when we've changed the rules in the past — and much of that happened before my time in the game — it was because there was a view that a particular player because of his skill had, frankly, an unfair advantage over other players. It made the game either less enjoyable, less competitive, less aesthetically pleasing," Silver said in his pre-NBA Finals press conference on Wednesday.
“I think in this case, as I said, this is the best basketball many of us have experienced in our lifetimes. I think that in some ways Steph's 3-point shooting becomes an equalizer.”
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Curry won his second straight MVP award this season while helping lead the Warriors to an NBA-record 73 regular-season wins.
While Silver doesn’t anticipate any rules changes due to Curry, he is pushing for one to end the dreaded "Hack-A-Shaq" strategy of intentionally fouling players who are poor free throw shooters.
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"Not only is that something that is bad for our network partners, but for all of the fan research we have shows that the fans hate it," Silver said. "There may be a compromise in there where we can cut it down significantly."
As for the Warriors, who are seeking consecutive NBA titles, it doesn’t look like they’ll have anything to worry about.
"In fairness to Steph and to Klay (Thompson) to a certain degree, it's not clear whether they may be aberrational," Silver said. "We may be looking back in 10 years from now and saying no one else can do what they can do. My hunch is that won't be the case. That may be what Steph is demonstrating; he's just so good that no one else can touch him."