To start, I think the onus is on the players to improve their flaws rather than on the league to protect them from other teams exploiting their flaws. I also think that the NBA is in the entertainment business, and while free throw shooting (good or bad) is part of the game, anyone who watched the first half of the Rockets-Clippers game 4 knows something needs to be done about it. So I've come up with a few suggestions. And I'm interested to see what you guys think or if you've thought about logical solutions. Keep in mind, the end goal is to take away the incentive for the opposition to intentionally foul bad free throw shooters off the ball (or make bad free throw shooters better to the point it doesn't make sense to foul them).

I'll start with to the more extreme suggestions and move to the more realistic:

Only players who shoot 60% or over for the year (min. of 100 free throws) can be on the active roster. Anyone who goes 5% or more below the 60% limit must be sent down to the d-league to bring up their %. Obviously, this is not going to happen, but wouldn't it be fun to watch players sweating it out on the line? The goal is to make those players work on their free throw shooting. I've heard that "some" players just can't shoot free throws, and for the life of me, I can't understand that when there are 7 footers out there that can shoot FTs and have a respectable % (Duncan for example hovers over 70%). Maybe someone can explain that to me.

An extension of the above, for every game a player a player is under 60% FT% (min 100 FTs for the year), the player gets deducted 50k from their salary (or 0.5% of their salary, whichever is less). Again, the point is to make it a financial incentive for these players to work on their FT shooting.

Thoughts?