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That's part of the argument. You're missing the "and cleanup those game ending where the last 60 seconds of game time takes 25 minutes." that Douglar mentioned. In the article Silver stated that "it doesn't make for good basketball". The other part of this argument is "How can we make the basketball viewing experience better?"But the problem being argued is the intentional off the ball fouling well before 60 seconds left.
I've always been a fan of forcing people like Shaq to learn to shoot free throws, but I'm also not a fan of the horrendous end to games, when a team is trailing by ~5 points in the last minute+, and the way a game grinds to a halt when a team implements hack-a-shaq. I'm somewhere in the middle on this.