Welcome to 2020: where everything that we've known to be NBA basketball isn't really
basketball, after all. Crowds/fans? Nah, not NBA basketball. Homecourt advantage? Nah, not NBA basketball. Visual/background pollution regarding the net/rim? Nah, not NBA basketball. Players, current and past, talking about the differences of playing-factors in the bubble and in a regular setting? Nah, not NBA basketball.
You truly struggle with reading comprehension.
instead of arguing semantics of the label I put on those issues you should’ve tried to actually comprehend the point being made which was around the question of if these guys were playing at their best, not if these non bball (
) issues affected the game. No matter how much romanticizing of them you want to do by pining on about their place in the “fabric” of the game it doesn’t change the fact that not dealing with them allows them to play better...and it also allows their competition to play better.
I already cited one example with bad calls, but another is travel. Travel in 2019 was very different than travel in 1959. Wherever they could improve over the years, they have. No matter how “impressed” you were by a player’s ability to overcome those travel issues. Shorter flight schedules, better accommodations, better security, whatever... efforts have been made to minimize its impact where possible. And guess what, if teleportation becomes available, the NBA would be amongst the first organizations to use no matter how mad it makes you.
The fan impacts are aligned with the league’s money making agenda, so I don’t see them trying to minimize that....except in the case of a global pandemic. And guess what, if another pandemic hits where packed stadiums are not viable, they’ll play empty again.