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Basketball arenas who allow seating close to the court are asking for a disaster where a fan or player gets seriously injured or killed as a result of a collision with seating, concessions or another person.The area around basketball courts, especially in the NBA, should be doubled along the sides and increased by at least 50% at the end of the courts. How crazy is it to have bench players, coaches, fans, media and workers that close with people running full speed and attempting to jump over them? The media table and scorers table don't need to be that close either.
Also, because there have been incidents with fans when players exit the basketball court and go into the tunnel to their locker rooms, those fan areas should be heavily policed, recorded and possibly even covered with a clear shield or dark shield. This should at least be used for the visiting team's entrance/exit because problems are more likely to occur in this unnecessarily hostile area. Professional baseball doesn't have this problem because player areas are covered and these dugouts are connected to their locker rooms.
American football is also asking for disastrous trouble by also having players, coaches, other workers, media, equipment, benches and cheerleaders too close to the field of play.
Human behavior, amped up by rampant normalized mental illness vitriol mixed with alcohol, is getting worse with fans taking their team choice beyond the point of fun and games and into the realm of attacking each other, players and referees, verbally and physically.
Hockey, football (soccer) and baseball take measures to protect players and fans by putting a barrier between them and the field of play; however, football (soccer) still has many problems and disasters caused by people who take rooting for a team to an insane level.
Closely related is the need for basketball to provide padding for player to wear that covers the sides of their hips, butts and lower back, because far too many times players fall hard on these areas.
