4ballUSA™ Basketball the Way It Should Be!

This blog is a continuing treatment and script for 4-on-4, full-court basketball. This blog's intention is to make basketball more exciting again, with more fast breaks, dunks, great passes, and blocks.

This blog protects the intellectual property of playing 4-on-4, full-court basketball for a web series, TV show, TV game show, TV reality show, regular TV show, games, actual 4-on-4 full-court games, social media, movies and all other media.

Clips of 4-on-4, full-court basketball will allow for a new way to advertise products. Indeed, this treatment and script will allow for better ways to advertise products for businesses on social media, and other media, that will be spectacular.

Wanting 4-on-4, full-court basketball is the result of studying basketball analytics since the invention of the 3 point line.

Episode of 4ballUSA™

A character calls a meeting with his colleagues. Everyone at the meeting sets up their cell phone, or some other camera, to video-record themselves. Later all this material will be edited and digested down into an episode, or episodes.

The main character asks questions such as:

"Do you like basketball?"
"What you like most about basketball?"
"What style of basketball do you like the most?"
"How many billions of dollars does the NBA make every year?"
"Why is the NBA a monopoly?"
"How many players want to play in the NBA but are good enough to play in the NBA?"
"Why is it that almost no players have any ownership at all in the NBA?"
"What is the most popular sport on social media?"
"Do you remember the American basketball Association?"
"Do you remember Julius Irving, known as Dr. J?"
"Do you remember how they used to play basketball in the ABA?"
"Do you remember how many points they used to score per game in the ABA?"
"Do you remember Phi Slama Jama?"
"Do you know that Phi Slama Jama is now trademarked by the University of Houston?"
"Do you remember Magic Time basketball? The kind of basketball inspired by Magic Johnson?"
"Do you remember Showtime basketball?"
"Can any of you dunk a basketball?"
"Do any of you know any players that can dunk a basketball?"
"Do any of you know any great basketball players?"
"Do you know any great shooters?"

This show can use transitions between scenes that are made up of basketball plays. The show can use a shot of a basketball being passed into the camera as a transition. Players dunking can form the transitions. Players blocking shots can form the transitions. Players sinking three-pointers can make the transitions. A ball spinning on a finger can be used as the transition to begin, or between scenes. A player blocking a shot by pinning it to the backboard can be used as a transition. An alley-oop can be used as a transition. Pretty much any player can be used to create these transitions. Slow-motion shots of a basketball being dribbled can be used. All kinds of amazing camera work can be used to create transitions. The more talented the player the more creative these transitions can become.

A character needs to start asking people:
"Would you play 4-on-4, full-court basketball?"
It will be great to get reactions both positive, and, especially the negative ones! It will be very revealing what this character finds out. People are so brainwashed about playing 5-on-5 that 4-on-4, full-court will seem very strange at first. Some of the stuff people say will be TV gold.

The reality TV show could start off as a web video TV series. It's interesting that the most popular YouTube videos go in length from less than a minute to about 9 minutes. A 30 minute television show is usually about 22 minutes. A 60 minute television show is about 44 minutes. This means that if the scenes are edited to the proper length they can be perfect for a web TV series, a 30 minute television show, or a 60 minute television show.

A character calls a meeting and talks about Sabermetrics. The history of Sabermetrics is fascinating. It would be great to film the original inventor of Sabermetrics. It would be great to follow Sabermetrics from baseball, to the book about Sabermetrics, to the movie about Sabermetrics starring Brad Pitt.

Sabermetrics should also be followed to Darrell Morey. Darrell Morey graduated from Northwestern University. Darrell Morey is also now in charge of the Houston Rockets. He is using analytics to build basketball teams for the Houston Rockets. One of the characters should explore all of this and get it recorded.

The main character should drive the point home over and over again that there is an oversupply of great players today! There are all kinds of fantastic players that cannot play in the NBA. All of these players could play in a 4-on-4, full-court basketball league. This league could have far more highlights than the NBA. The 4-on-4, full-court basketball league could employ all kinds of basketball players that cannot find employment today!

One or more characters should go after sponsors:
They can go after a shoe company that can afford to be sponsored by the NBA.
They can go after clothing companies.
They can go after rich retired NBA players!
They can go after NBA players who want to be entrepreneurs.

One character creates a great scene, or scenes, by going to a basketball court. The court has players playing pickup basketball. Or perhaps players getting ready to play pickup basketball. He starts talking about playing 4-on-4, full-court basketball. There is all kinds of blowback! People think the character is crazy. People give all kinds of reasons why it can't be done. These become obstacles that become part of the story of 4-on-4, full-court basketball.

A character tries to pursue getting ABA highlights. He records the entire process. The same character tries to get NBA highlights, college basketball highlights, and high school basketball highlights. The process of pursuing these highlights all is recorded and becomes part of the show. If nothing else, this character should be able to achieve getting "street ball" highlights.

This essay is part of the continuing treatment for 4-on-4, full-court basketball as a web series, reality TV show, regular TV show, movie, or book, or any other form of entertainment in any media.

Copyright© 2016 Bradley R. Hennenfent, M.D. all rights reserved.

4ballUSA™ and 4ball™ and FourBall™ and FourBall™

Episode of 4ballUSA™

The main character works all of this dialogue into the episode.

"Have you heard of the movie Moneyball? It's about Sabermetrics in baseball. It stars Brad Pitt. It's an excellent movie and the book is spectacular as well."

"There is clearly an opportunity in basketball when you look at the statistics to create a reality TV show, movie, and a brand-new business."

This list of 6 is turned into dialogue for discussion:

1. Basketball is the most shared sport on social media around the world
2. Basketball teams used to score over 125 points per game
3. The most fun basketball for fans is Phi Slama Jama!
4. The most fun basketball for fans is "Dr. J." style run and gun!
5. The most fun basketball for fans is Magic Johnson style magic time!
6. The most fun basketball for fans is Showtime by the Los Angeles Lakers!

"You have probably heard coach Phil Jackson or coach Greg Popovich complain that the 3 point line has ruined basketball. If you look at the statistics, they are correct. The run and gun basketball game has been destroyed. Players now mostly run from 3 point line to 3 point line, and shoot 3 pointers."

"The run and gun style of basketball has disappeared for the most part."

"Today, there is not as many fast breaks."
"There are not as many spectacular passes."
"There are not as many dunks."
"There are not as many blocks where the ball is pinned to the backboard."

"Mathematically, there is a solution to all of these issues. Find a group of players willing to play 4-on-4, full-court. Mathematically, this creates more room for the players and will create the run and gun style of basketball again. LeBron James can be stopped 5-on-5, because of the lack of space on the court, but he can't be stopped 4-on-4."

"Kobe Bryant can be stopped 5-on-5, because of lack of space on the court, but he can't be stopped 4-on-4."

"Any retired NBA player could start a brand-new basketball league owned by retired NBA players who want to play 4-on-4. This would create far more highlights than the NBA games do today."

So, if you are interested in 4-on-4, full-court basketball we could do the following:

Plans to get the reality TV show off the ground:

1. Find some players. They have to be good enough to dunk. Fortunately, there is a huge excess of players today that are that talented, but can't get into the NBA.
2. Hook up with a company that is doing basketball league scheduling using a cell phone app.
3. Hook up a company that is doing sports highlights using a cell phone app.
4. Learn how to shoot a game concentrating on highlights
5. Learn how to share the highlights on social media
6. Start creating the reality show from day one.

Film all 6 of the things above as they are being done.

Is LeBron James the Greatest Basketball Player of all time (GOAT)?

Is LeBron James the greatest basketball player of all time? Is he the GOAT? Arguably, James is The GOAT. King James brought the Cleveland Cavaliers the NBA championship after already winning an NBA championship with the Miami Heat. He’s a great team player, but as an individual he may be the greatest basketball athlete ever. Lebron James is 6’8” tall and 250 pounds, yet he has the ball handling skills and speed of a point guard.

Incredibly, Lebron James has the size and strength of many NBA centers from the days of yore. Bill Russell, the famous center for the Boston Celtics was 6’9” tall, only 1 inch taller than Lebron James. The famous center, Moses Malone was 6’10” tall, only 2 inches taller than Lebron James. Wes Unseld, who played center for the Washington bullets was only 6’6” tall, two inches shorter than Lebron James, and was an All-Star.

So, why is there any question about LeBron James being the greatest player ever? He’s as tall as many centers with all the talent of a guard. Lebron James is 2 inches taller than either Kobe Bryant or Michael Jordan (and is far more muscular).

When you read Twitter, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, Magic Johnson, Shaquille O’Neal, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Larry Bird, Hakeem Olajuwon, Oscar Robertson, Tim Duncan and many others are always argued about as being the greatest of all time (GOAT). Each has their own passionately devoted fans - and deservedly so.

Let’s ask some hard questions:

Do we want the most talented players to rise to the top?
Do we want the best athletes to win?

For the answers we will explore basketball analytics and we will give a very strong shout-out to Kurt Vonnegut who wrote “Harrison Bergeron.” Let’s imagine for a moment, that Lebron James is Harrison Bergeron in Kurt Vonnegut’s famous short story.

The Handicapper General, a Vonnegut character, has come along and seen that Lebron James is too tall, too big, too fast, too quick, and too smart.

The Handicapper General says, “This is not fair!”

To enforce equality, Lebron James must be handicapped. The Handicapper General makes Lebron James wear a head band that periodically shocks his brain to disrupt his intelligence. To compensate for his size and strength Lebron is forced to wear a vest with 40 pounds of weights on it so that he cannot jump so high or move so fast. Because he’s too good-looking, Lebron is also forced to wear a mask that minimizes his handsomeness.

This will make a great episode of television! That’s what life would be like for Lebron James in the dystopian future created by Kurt Vonnegut where everyone must be equalized.

But wait, Lebron is actually handicapped by the NBA in a different way. They are playing 5-on-5 full court, when LeBron should be playing 4-on-4, full-court. Look at the graphic below.

The graphic shows five players with 6’9” wingspans in blue, and five players with 6’9” wingspans in red. Look how crowded the court is!

Remember how Lebron James blocked a shot during the NBA finals by pinning it to the backboard? That was the most exciting game of the entire series. Arguably the most exciting play the entire NBA season. Why isn’t there constant running and gunning like that? Why don’t teams fast-break nonstop? Why aren’t there more points scored? Why aren’t there more plays that involve driving to the basket for dunks?

The basketball court has become too small for 5-on-5. Great players like Lebron James need more room. Basketball players were approximately 5’5” tall when basketball was invented. Today, even a college team like Kentucky, can average 6’9” in height.

The Kentucky Wildcats recently had these players:

1. Dakari Johnson, center – 7’0”
2. Willie Cauley-Stein, forward – 7’0” inches
3. Karl-Anthony Towns, forward – 6’11”
4. Trey Lyles, forward – 6’10”
5. Marcus Lee, forward – 6’9”
6. Charles Matthews, guard – 6’6”
7. Devon Brooker, guard – 6’6”
8. Andrew Harrison, guard – 6’6”
9. Aaron Harrison, guard – 6’6”
10. Jamaal Murray, guard – 6’4”

This means that you could have a 7-foot center, a 7-foot forward, a 6’11” forward, a 6’6” guard, and another 6’6” guard. The average height of that team would be 6’9”.

The Problem Today
The problem today is that great players like Lebron James are being handicapped. They should not be playing 5-on-5 full court, they should be playing 4-on-4, full-court.

Mathematically, 4-on-4, full-court provides a better product. Playing with fewer players will create wide open basketball. It will provide Showtime! It will create Phi Slama Jama™ like the University of Houston Cougars used to have with Clyde Drexler and Hakeem Olajuwon. That may have been the most fun and exciting college team in history! We need Magic Time again!

Do we want players to keep getting bigger, taller, stronger faster? Or do we want to handicap people? If we want basketball players to keep getting bigger, taller, stronger, and faster we need to start playing 4-on-4, full-court.

Breaking the Monopoly
We can break the NBA monopoly. Basketball players can own teams. Basketball players can own leagues. It can all start with a television show or videos on social media.

Set LeBron free!

TV Show Treatment
This blog is a continuing treatment for a TV show, movie, game, or videos about basketball. The TV show can be scripted or unscripted, fiction or reality. This blog contains everything needed to create shows or entertainment, as well as basketball teams, leagues, and tournaments. Perhaps you could be the next television production company to take a look at this treatment for visual media.

Let’s quit handicapping the great ones.

Unleash the offense!

Set the players free!

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Sources:
Kurt Vonnegut. “Harrison Bergeron.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron

Welcome to the Monkey House: A Collection of Short Works

University of Kansas basketball roster in 2014
http://www.ukathletics.com/sport/m-baskbl/roster/#/2014/Players/tile

University of Kansas basketball roster in 2015
Source: http://www.ukathletics.com/sport/m-baskbl/roster/#/2015/Players/tile

Contact
Email: Dr. Hennenfent@gmail.com

Copyright
This blog has been inspired by my love of logic, math, statistics, Sabermetrics, analytics, and medical statistics. The world can be improved if we use logic and mathematics to understand it. Copyright © 2016 Bradley R. Hennenfent, M.D. All rights reserved. All rights in all media reserved.

Basketball! 4ballUSA™ 4ballWorld™ Treatment

This blog is an ongoing build and depository of stories, treatments, and scripts for a television show, movie, videos, basketball teams, and leagues. Everything here is part of the story and the treatment. Basketball is broken and can be fixed by moving to 4-on-4 full court.

Analytics guy

The analytics guy is heavy on statistics. He talks about the history of basketball using mathematics and highlights. How the Lew Alcindor rule against dunking set back basketball for nearly a decade (1967 to 1976). How the culture of the NBA also was against dunking at one point. He talks about and analyzes other rules in basketball over the years. He or she specifically talks about the three-point line and its impact on basketball and statistics. He talks about the size of the players and the talent of the players. All kinds of basketball records and basketball statistics are discussed with highlights whenever possible. The analytics person makes the mathematical case for 4-on-4, full-court basketball.

History guy

The history guy talks about basketball from a more emotional and passionate point of view. He talks about how the Lew Alcindor rule against dunking hurt people, and hurt the game of basketball. He talks about how Lew Alcindor changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. He talks about Wilt Chamberlain. He talks about Showtime basketball. He talks about Phi Slama Jama® and the University of Houston. He talks about the American Basketball Association. He talks about the Harlem Globetrotters. Basketball highlights are used whenever possible.

Freedom guy

The freedom guy may be a separate character or may be built into another character (as is the case with all the characters). He talks about how the basketball players need to be set free. He talks about how the biggest, strongest, most talented can’t play their game anymore. There may be an episode comparing a famous basketball player to some literature. There may be many such episodes.

Referee guy

There may be a separate referee or rules guy that helps explain all the nuances of basketball rules and their effects over the years.

Producer

In one version of the television show, the producer, the director, and other typically behind-the-scenes personnel are put on screen, especially if they love basketball. The producer is an excellent character because he or she has to overcome obstacle after obstacle to get a television show off the ground, a movie off the ground, basketball teams off the ground, games played, tournaments done, and one or more basketball leagues started.

Basketball players

All kinds of former basketball players are talked to and the impact of rules and rule changes are discussed. Whenever possible highlights are used.

Father of 4-On-4, full-Court Basketball

One character is the major promoter of 4-on-4, full-court basketball. He essentially invented it and has been the driving force.

Leagues

There are many sport leagues, amateur, recreational, semi professional, and professional. All of the people involved in these activities, CEOs, marketers, software writers, and others are characters to be used and developed. This also includes all of the players in those leagues.

Blog

Basketball in all mediums with the plot twist of 4-on-4, full-court is extremely important. Basketball is a billion-dollar industry. Basketball is the number one sport on social media around the world. That’s why this blog is all about basketball and how it can be improved by using 4-on-4, full-court. A better product can be created for TV, movies, and social media. This blog is the specific expression of all of the following: screenplays, TV pilots, novels, plays, this blog of course, YouTube, Vine, and all other media. The very embodiment of 4-on-4, full-court basketball as a new and better product for all visual media started here.

Logline:

More running and gunning with more dunks, alley-oops, no look passes and fast breaks than ever before!

Verbal pitch 1:

People take on the world to fix basketball. There is an oversupply of great basketball players. There is an ever greater demand for basketball highlights. There are more sports shows an ever before. There is an oversupply of businesses that want to advertise with basketball highlights.

Characters

Basketball players who are human highlight reels.
People who love basketball.
People who love the mathematics of basketball.
People who love the history of basketball.
People who’ve been affected by basketball in some way.
Every day basketball players and fans.

Plot devices:

Playing 4-on-4, full-court instead of 5-on-5.
Searching for the “human highlight reel.”
Searching for other basketball players.
The personal lives of the basketball players.
The personal lives of the producer, director, and others.
Searching for an Ex-NBA player.
Searching for players retired from professional leagues around the world.
Searching for four great players, from four different countries.
Interviewing historians.
Interviewing referees.
Interviewing basketball players.
Wannabe basketball players.
Interviewing analytics people.
Women basketball players.
The women’s game versus the men’s game.
The ownership of the teams.
Ownership of the leagues.
Searching for sponsors.
Searching for investors.
Searching for advertisers.
Interviewing monopoly breakers.
Analyzing rules and how they have helped or hurt the game.
Searching for an entertainment attorney.
Fixing free throws.
Fixing jump balls.
Searching for the League "Commissioner"

Themes

Everyone loves high-scoring, fast-break, run and gun basketball the best. Showtime baby!

Special episodes

The “Kurt Vonnegut” episode.
Episodes built around major obstacles.

Lines of dialogue:

Set them free.
Set him free.
Basketball is broken.
There is a better product.
We want fast-break basketball.
We want running and gunning again.
4-on-4, full-court is a better product than 5-on-5 full-court.

Action scenes worth mentioning now

dunks
behind the back passes
no look passes
amazing shots
fast breaks
examples of running and gunning
half-court basketball with more room
fast breaks with great passes and great finishes
blocks
pinning the ball to the bank board when blocking it

Titles

Basketball!
Other titles not to be revealed initially because of intellectual property issues.

Trademarks:

4ball™
4ballUSA™
4ballWorld™

Copyright

Copyright © 2016 Bradley R. Hennenfent, M.D. All rights reserved. All rights in all media reserved.

Basketball for Directors, Producers, and Actors: Billion Dollar Empire

4-on-4, full-court basketball can become a billion-dollar industry. We need 4-on-4, full-court basketball because the court is too small and the players are too big. Today, Basketball players are as tall as 7 feet 7 inches. The court is too crowded for fast-break basketball or great half-court basketball.

The graphic below shows how crowded half-court basketball has become when each player is represented by a circle representing the wingspan of the players. The blue circles represent the 2014-2015 Kansas team that almost went undefeated. Their average height was 6 feet 9 inches tall. The red dots represent any professional basketball team where the players average 6 feet 9 inches tall. It’s not hard to be that tall of a team. The point guard Klay Thompson for the Golden State Warriors is listed at 6 feet 7 inches, while he reportedly has a wingspan of 6 feet 11 inches.

The red dots can represent the Minnesota Timberwolves with their starting five average height of 6 feet 9 inches. In 2015-2016 they started: Ricky Rubio, Andrew Wiggins, Tayshaun Prince, Kevin Garnet, and Karl Anthony Towns. They ranged from 6 feet 4 inches to 7 feet tall. It’s obvious that there is not enough room on the court anymore!

The game has become too slow because the players are so big and talented. We need more offense; we need more fast breaks, dunks, alley-oops, no-look passes, and incredible shots. When is the last time you saw a defender on the fast-break pin the ball to the backboard? When is the last time you saw each team score 150 points for a combined total of 300 points in a game?

Problems

1. We need more fast-break basketball
2. We need more basketball highlights to meet demand. Every day there are more sports news shows, blogs, and social media accounts, but there are not enough basketball highlights to meet the demand.
3. There is an excess supply of great basketball players. There are basketball players who are tireless runners, great dunkers, unbelievable passers, and fabulous shooters, who do not have a place to highlight their skills. They cannot make a living playing basketball.
4. There is an excess supply of basketball fans that want to share highlights on social media.
5. Companies need better ways to advertise in the social media age.
6. People freak out when you suggest playing 4-on-4 instead of 5-on-5, because they cannot think outside the box. That indoctrination is a problem that must be overcome.

The Solution

The solution is 4-on-4, full-court basketball. Ever since the institution of the three-point line for NBA basketball I have been watching the mathematics carefully. The math does not add up anymore, which is why I have been pitching, developing plots, treatments, synopses, and so on for 4-on-4, full-court basketball as a television show, a new league, for social media, and all media.

We all love run and gun basketball. We all love great half-court basketball. What we love, is no longer mathematically possible. As you can see by the crowded graphic, we have to reduce the number of players down to eight. Today’s players are all big and tall, and can handle the ball like a guard, so we no longer need 5-on-5, we need 4-on-4 to make the game right again, more exciting again.

We need WIDE OPEN, FULL-COURT, RUN AND GUN basketball again!

Plot

The plot is people who love or play basketball. “Ball is life” as they say.

Plot Specifics

• One plot is playing 4-on-4, full-court basketball instead of 5-on-5.
• Another plot idea would be to put the producers, directors, businessmen and others in the videos.
• Organization of Events
• Finding a producer
• Finding the first basketball player
• Finding a director
• Forming the first team
• Playing the first game
• Finding the best ways to videotape the highlights.
• Creating a company
• Creating a league
• Finding funding. Crowdfunding with fans.
• Securing advertising

Introduction of The First Character

The show starts with someone who loves basketball, or perhaps loves creating videos, TV shows, movies, or who loves business. Someone becomes the first character. Someone becomes the first player. Perhaps an ex NBA basketball player, ex college player, ex high school player, streetball player, a graduate of film school, or a business person. There should be a heartfelt talk about how the player wants to play basketball but for some reason or another does not have a way to play.

Perhaps the first character could be an ex basketball star who graduated from the London school of film?

Perhaps the first character could be an ex-NBA player in Los Angeles who has Hollywood connections.

Obstacles

• Today we have more basketball players that are human highlight reels than ever before, but most basketball players cannot make a living playing basketball.
• Daily life can be an obstacle.
• Daily life can be an unforgettable journey.
• Drama
• With 4-on-4, full-court basketball there can be dramatic single elimination tournaments. There can be citywide tournaments. There can be nationwide tournaments. There can be worldwide tournaments. Companies can be sponsors. In fact, it is not uncommon around the world for companies to sponsor and maintain their own basketball team. The situation in the United States is actually uncommon.
• Advertisements
• Ads can be placed at the end of video highlights for revenue. For example, a basketball highlight could take 20 seconds. An advertisement for 10 seconds could be at the end of the highlight.

Plot Threads

Producer

One plot thread could surround the producer. Perhaps the producer is even an ex-basketball player. Perhaps the producer wants to make 4-on-4, full-court basketball work as TV show, movie, league, and/or industry because they love basketball. Perhaps the producer is a retired NBA basketball player or college basketball player. Perhaps, someone who runs and guns but does not have a platform to show their skills. They could bootstrap the creation of a company. They could start by creating video content talking about what they are going to do, demonstrating what they are going to do, and interviewing people who want to get involved.

Director

The director has to have a great artistic vision. The director needs to develop a camera package, and connections with camera persons, so that they can adequately video the games. Special portable equipment will probably be needed. Fans can also be tapped to video the games using their cell phones.

The Financial Person

There will be great drama around the finances. Whichever person takes on the additional task of being the finance person could be a great character to video. Great drama can surround two of the goals. Can a company be created and can it become profitable and sustainable? Can the company create hundreds of jobs for basketball players? Whoever takes on the role of the financial person will have high drama. Can they bootstrap a company from startup to sustainability?

Obstacles

Great deal of drama can be generated around trying to start a business and sustain a business. The TV show can interview basketball players, basketball lovers, angel investors, crowd funding experts and so on and so forth. The business side of the project can be a plot that can be dramatic like the TV show “Shark Tank.”

Plot elements

4-on-4, full court basketball is perfect for all the classic plot elements:

1. Introduction of the characters with their conflicts and problems
2. Rising action as events build up to conflict
3. Climax or main point of the plot
4. Falling action or winding up of the story
5. Resolution with a happy ending

Need

We need a new TV show built around playing 4-on-4, full-court basketball. We need basketball tournaments based upon 4-on-4, full-court. We need a new basketball league that is 4-on-4, full-court. We need these things because we need more basketball highlights. We need more fast breaks, dunks, alley-oops, and no look passes. We need players to be running and gunning again.

Obstacles

The story involves gathering players to play full-court, four-on-four basketball. There is conflict as so many obstacles have to be overcome. First, people must be convinced that four-on-four basketball is a better game. Games must be played and there will be winners and losers. There will be third party villains. There will be those who do not want 4-on-4, full-court basketball to succeed.

Story

The story focuses on the important characters and their role in developing 4-on-4, full-court basketball. Basketball is the most popular sport around the world. There are more and more sports news outlets every day. But there are not enough basketball highlights to meet the demand.

Character development

There could be great character development. There are great basketball players who are great characters. Remember Dennis Rodman? Allen Iverson? Michael Jordan? Magic Johnson? Many of the characters will play important roles in the story. The story of bringing 4-on-4, full-court basketball to the world.

Pitch

An entire industry of entertainment is waiting to be created. The industry will be created around 4-on-4, full-court basketball. There will be TV shows, games, tournaments, and a movie.

Treatments

Many different treatments for how to go about 4-on-4, full-court basketball have been posted at this blog.

Math Is Beautiful

Stephan Curry made 45% of his three-point shots for the 2015-2016 NBA regular season.
(Source: http://www.sbnation.com/2016/4/15/11437346/steph-curry-golden-state-warriors-3-point-record)

That means for every 10 shots he took behind the three-point line, he made 45% of them, which is 10 times 0.45 = 4.5 shots. Which means, for every 10 shots behind the line he took he scored 4.5 times 3 points = 13.5 points for every 10 shots.

When shooting two-point shots, the player would have to make 70% of them to beat the number of points Steph Curry is making. 10 shots times 0.70 = 7 shots made = 14 points. What do NBA players shoot from the two-point area?

The highest any player shot from two-point range for the 2016 season was DeAndre Jordan of the Los Angeles clippers and he only shot 69.9%.
(Source: https://www.teamrankings.com/nba/player-stat/two-point-field-goal-percentage)

The 50th player in percentage ranking, was Kyrie Irving of the Cleveland Cavaliers, and he only shot 49.9% from the two-point range.

The 99th player by percentage ranking, was Marc Gasol of the Memphis grizzlies and he only shot 46.3% from the two-point range.

Remember Wilt Chamberlain. The famous center once made 72% of his field goal attempts for a season. He holds the single-season record. So, basically the only NBA player in history who could keep up with Steph Curry’s three-pointers by shooting two-pointers was Wilt Chamberlain.
(Source: http://www.nba.com/encyclopedia/wilts_records.html)

What about Steph Curry? What did he shoot from the two-point range? He only shot 56.3% from the two-point range, which is far short of the 70% he needs to shoot to keep up with his three-point shot in terms of point production. But have you seen Steph Curry dribble? Have you seen him drive to the basket? Can you imagine how much more easily he could get two-point shots if he was playing 4-on-4, full-court instead of 5-on-5 full-court? Steph Curry when he retires should start playing 4-on-4, full-court. He could probably play another 10 years after the NBA if he was running his own team or league.

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Source for Heights of NBA Players:
http://nba-teams.pointafter.com/stories/8626/nba-starting-lineups-ranked-height#30-Minnesota-Timberwolves

We need to get FAST BREAK BASKETBALL back!

We need to get FAST BREAK BASKETBALL back! We need 4-on-4, full-court basketball so we will have fast breaks, alley-oops, dunks, no-look passes, and incredible shots again. Today’s players are too big on too small of a court. The graphic shows what it looks like when you have all players 6 feet 9 inches tall on an NBA basketball court. There is not enough room for half-court basketball, or run and gun basketball anymore! We need a new TV show and a new league with 4-on-4, full-court basketball. This idea is so important it has been copyrighted and registered for years. When the NBA lockout of 2017 occurs, as it most certainly will, it’s time for 4-on-4, full-court basketball.

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4-On-4, Full-Court Basketball: Billions of Dollars

We need 4-on-4, full-court basketball because the court is too small and the players are too big. For today’s giant, talented players, and fans, the game has become too slow. We need more fast breaks, dunks, alley-oops, no-look passes, and incredible shots.

4-on-4, full-court basketball can be turned into a billion-dollar industry.

I have created a graphic to demonstrate how crowded the basketball court has become because of the ever increasing height of the players. The 2014-2015 Kansas team almost went undefeated. Their average height was 6 feet 9 inches tall. I created circles with a diameter equal to the height of the players and placed them on an NBA sized basketball court. Remember, the lane is off limits to players, because of the three second rule, so the lane is empty most of the time. The graphic clearly shows that there is not enough room on the basketball court anymore.

 
Getting two players off the court is key. Eight players are enough. We don’t need 10 anymore, because all of today’s players can handle the ball like a guard.  Today’s players are as tall is 7 feet 7 inches. When basketball was invented in 1891, the average man was around 5 feet 6 inches tall.

Mathematics says that if we reduce the teams to 4-on-4, instead of playing 5-on-5, we will get more of what we want: fast breaks, dunks, alley-oops, no-look passes, and incredible shots. We will get the famous “Magic Time with Magic Johnson” and “Phi Slama Jama with Clyde Drexler” back again. We will get “Dr. J style” fast breaks again.

I believe that 4-on-4 full court basketball is such an important idea that I have been copyrighting and registering the idea for a long time. Currently there is a perfect storm of excess demand for basketball highlights to make 4-on-4 a reality:

Supply:
More great basketball players that are human highlight reels than ever before
More companies willing to do sports related advertising than ever before

Demand:
More sports shows than ever before needing basketball content
More TV channels than ever before needing basketball content
More video distribution channels than ever before needing basketball content
More social media than ever before needing basketball highlights

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Kobe Bryant Can Retire and Make a Billion Dollars!

Kobe Bryant can retire and make a billion dollars! It would be tremendous fun for him. All he needs to do is start a four-on-four, full-court basketball league. It could start with a reality TV show. It could start with four-on-four, full-court exhibition basketball games.

There are businesses like Netflix, Apple TV, Amazon, Hulu, and Roku, that should be dying to get into sports. Now, all the other TV stations, networks, and video streamers can get into sports big time and easily compete with the NBA and other basketball leagues. They can get four-on-four, full court going. It could even start with a YouTube channel, Vine, or Vimeo channel.

We desperately need more basketball highlights. We need more run and gun highlights. We need more miraculous passes, spectacular dunks, and fabulous 3-point shots. Remember why you used to love the American Basketball Association? Remember why you used to love Phi Slama Jama? Remember Dr. J, Julius Erving, of the ABA's Virginia Squires and New York Nets? Professional basketball teams used to score 120 points a game!

Dan Le Batard, host of ESPN’s Highly Questionable, said: “I hate … we have more Sports news networks than we have sports news. (Pardon the Interruption, April 5th 2016)

Dan Le Batard is right. We don’t have enough sports news or sports highlights. We need Kobe Bryant to start a four-on-four, full-court basketball leg when he retires. He is one of the greatest players ever. He is powerful enough to pull something like this off. He can start a new league where former basketball players are the owners of the teams. Where former basketball players are the coaches of the teams. He can have corporate sponsors all around the world. He can fix a lot of wrongs and make them right.

Most importantly, he can bring back run and gun, spectacular basketball for all of us to see again. All Kobe has to do is get together with 3 of his best basketball player friends and he can make it happen.

Kobe can travel around playing “local heroes,” college players or ex college players, professionals or ex-professionals, and don’t forget the old ex high school players. Eventually a regular league, or “irregular league” can be developed.

Kobe Bryant, or someone like him, can create a billion-dollar business empire.

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LeBron James, Dwayne Wade, Carmelo Anthony, and Chris Paul can all be on the same team!

Lebron James, Dwayne Wade, Carmelo Anthony, and Chris Paul can all be on the same team. They can play four-on-four, full-court basketball. They can start their own four-on-four basketball TEAM. They can start their own four-on-four basketball LEAGUE. Imagine how great the television show would be. Four-on-four basketball is perfect for generating more highlights: more dunks, more fast breaks, and more incredible "Magic" passes.

Four-on-four basketball would be great for streaming media, or any kind of media. Four-on-four basketball can be a team, league, tournament, reality TV show, regular TV show, or sporting event.

Basketball has become boring. We need more fast breaks. We need more dunks. Playing four-on-four full-court basketball will return the excitement to the game. Players will run all the way from one basket to other again.

It’s all mathematics. Four-on-four full-court basketball will increase the percentage for making layups and two-point shots to where those shots will be more statistically likely. This will change the game back, back to the full-court, fast-break, run and gun style that we all love.

With today's five-on-five basketball and the three-point line, it can be better to keep all the offense on the perimeter and go for the three-point shot all the time. Players just pass the ball around the outside all the time. One way to return to the fast break style of play and keep the three-point line is to play four-on-four full court.

Fast-break basketball is the best basketball. It has the most highlights, the most dunks, and the most incredible passes. There will be far more highlights with four-on-four, full-court, fast-break basketball.

The players have become too tall and too talented. There is not enough room for the wide-open game anymore. Yet, every player starts younger and can handle the ball far better than they could one generation ago. It’s time to unleash four-on-four full-court basketball.

A new four-on-four basketball league could be started by players. It could be owned by players. It could be coached by players. There would be far more opportunity for players in the top positions.

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