There’s No Crying in Basketball

Through the first 51 games of the 06-07 NBA season there have been 122 technical fouls compared to 66 through 50 games last season.  This has led to the players union director Billy Hunter asking David Stern to have the officials lighten up.  The reasoning is that every ‘tech’ a player receives he is fined and Hunter is claiming that this is an unfair labor practice.  Once again the NBA has a problem with it’s character.  Instead of the players responding to the referees trigger finger when it comes to calling technical fouls by calming down their emotions, they would rather whine about it.   Players are saying that it restricts their emotions on the court, but I don’t remember Jordan throwing the ball off the bottom of the goal after the opposing team scores a meaningless basket in the second quarter.  The NBA already has enough character issues to deal with on and off the court and every time that David Stern attempts to improve the image of the NBA he has to put up a fight.  The NBA is digging itself into a deep hole with its problems and the dress code and more technical fouls are going to be the cure unless the players are on-board, which it might be awhile before this group is on-board for any type of help.