This. For me at least, it makes the game less interesting. For the same reason the all star game has become a huge joke. There isn't any pride in it, no challenging themselves to compete and battle on both ends of the court to win. It's just run down the court and shoot the ball. Whoever makes the most wins. Here, we'll even force the other team to just get out of the way with stupid rules. Excellent defense takes as much or more skill and training than scoring but it's been so badly neutered that we get a Marcus Smart winning dpoy. Granted he was a decent defender in today's NBA, but he was no Gary Payton. I'm not impressed by the high scoring games and all the 40+ and 50+ individual performances when you know it's because defense has just become a novelty, not a core part of the game any more. Kind of sad really. But it is reflective of the times, when we all have a constant-stimulation machine in the palms of our hands, if we aren't seeing something exciting every 3.8 seconds we lose interest and move on. We need constant scoring or we wouldn't know what to cheer for and wouldn't get that all-important dopamine hit. The NBA is rapidly becoming the tiktok of sports leagues.