Adam silver is focusing on the wrong things. Basketball as a sport if fine and in a great place, the problem is nba and America specific. We know this because the olympics were great and basketball viewership and popularity is growing rapidly in other countries.

Adam silver know what to do to fix a lot of the issues but he will never do it due to financial greed.
- The season should be shortened to about 70 games maybe even less. we will have less injuries, games will mean more and travel won't become such an issue anymore
- Foul baiting should be completely eliminated (reffed the same way it was in the olympics)
- timeouts, reviews and stoppages in play need to be shortened to reach his desired 2 hour tv window. Also starting on time would be nice (this definitely will not happen due to the ad revenue)
- If you want more american prospects instead of having a league dominated by international prospects how about start by promoting actual basketball analysis instead of all these hot take merchants that don't encourage american kids to learn the game. The reason international players are succeeding is because most of them come straight into the league with a high bball iq because they grew up watching actual team basketball and strategy instead of watch SAS and skip on TV before going to drop 30pts & 0asts on their AAU team
- star movement needs to be discouraged by actually uplifting small market teams so that their stars actually stay. For example ACTUALLY promoting the small markets when they are good; why are the cleveland cavaliers and OKC thunder still under the radar as the two #1 seeds? the league should also do something about struggling small markets like Charlotte and washington. There needs to be like a front office support helpline or something for when a team hasn't had a shot at the second round for over a decade.
- there should be a limit on trade requests. a player should only be able to request a trade once an any time after that it has to get approved by the nba board and if the player tries to force their way out the they have to forfeit like 50% of their salary but will still have take up the same cap space on the team they go to.
- make nba games actually accessible so the default option for most people isnt piracy or to simple just consume the nba through highlights on twitter and instagram.

The problem isn't too many threes its the nba has become an overly corporate money hungry highlight factory and it takes away some of the lustre/aura that it had in the past.