Adam Silver, Act NOW. This is out of control.

The more I think about this, the more I think we are abetting into territory not unakin to the whole lack of testicular fortitude on the part of the Commissioner of the NFL -- just how bad are you willing to act to win?

Adam Silver has been at least asked, for the better part of the season, about the "Hack-A-Jordan" situation -- that DeAndre Jordan of the LA Clippers is the leading field-goal-percentage (and rebounding) player in the NBA this season, but is such an abjectly horrid free throw shooter he makes Shaquille O'Neal proficient!  (2014-15 FT%:  39.7)

As a result, teams have resorted to fouling the ever-living shit out of Jordan, and the Houston Rockets and the Los Angeles Clippers have turned the Western Conference Semifinal series into an abject farce. 

Adam Silver has to step in and pull a Bettman here -- this is as bad as when Sean Avery of the Rangers committed blatant unsportsmanlike conduct in front of the opposing goalie in a playoff game -- so blatant, the league changed the rules the next DAY to make his actions a penalty.

Well, it's time to put the hammer on excessive fouling.  For the last several years, I've taken a look at the free-throw disparities to think of rigged games.

What we are seeing with this DeAndre Jordan situation is player discipline, team discipline, and a problem the league MUST address Monday morning.

Why?

The NBA playoff record for free throw attempts in a game by one team, according to the NBA, is 70 in 1956.  (The record, at least since 1964, for all games is 80!)

According to basketball-reference.com, Philadelphia took 64 free throws in a win in Game 6 of their series with the San Francisco Warriors in 1967.

Phoenix took 64 free throws in their Western Conference-clinching win over Seattle in 1993.

In game 2 of the Clippers-Rockets series, Houston took 64 free throws.

In the first three quarters of game 4, DeAndre Jordan alone took 28 free throws in the first half of the game.  That is a new NBA record -- Shaq held the old record of 27 in 2000.

Jordan took 34 free throws in the game, and that's only because the team only got four in the fourth quarter and he got none.  Shaq's record of 39 (from 2000, but in a different series!) was only safe because the Clippers blew out the Rockets in the first three quarters.

The Clippers took 63 free throws in the game, 59 by the end of three quarters.

96 free throws in game 2, 93 in game 4.

E-NOUGH!

The league, TODAY, Monday morning, needs to change the rules on "Hack-A-Whoever".

Here's my suggestion:

1) You begin enforcing, strictly, the rules on intentional fouls.  This includes fouling to get back in the game.  Any efforts to hyper-penalize a great number of fouls have failed:  It's time to view the fouls as exactly what they are, intentional fouls, and to penalize them accordingly.  I believe the penalty is one shot and the ball.  Make it two and the ball, and we're talking.

2) Here's how you end "Hack-A-Whoever" once and for all.

Enforce it for what it exactly is:  A Flagrant-1!!!!

The NBA's website has the following definitions on flagrant fouls:

"A flagrant foul-penalty (1) is unnecessary contact committed by a player against an opponent.

A flagrant foul-penalty (2) is unnecessary and excessive contact committed by a player against an opponent. It is an unsportsmanlike act and the offender is ejected immediately."

"Hack-A-Jordan", "Hack-A-Shaq", any of it...  Unnecessary contact committed by a player against an opponent -- FLAGRANT-1.

That ends it quickly.

You also need a rule that the game is basically declared a farce when one team decides it's going to commit an excessive number of fouls.  Each team has one game in which it has committed FORTY.  (Clippers in Game 2, Houston in Game 4)

Silver needs to fine both teams a good hundred grand or so and change the rules today to knock it the Hell off.

This isn't basketball.  It's the same kind of risk-reward bullshit that's going to get somebody hurt.

Or has it already in Kevin Love???