Why isn't off-the-ball hack-a-Shaq totally illegal?

[Bill S Preston]

One of the reasons why I don't watch the NBA. It's turned into complete crap. You can't touch a guy in the lane without getting called for a foul. Teams fouling a bad free throw shooter in the first quarter in order to get him out of the game. These trash players getting called "great" by the morons on the TV because they can fly twenty feet down the court in order to get a foul called against the offensive player. It's embarrassing watching seven footers flop from the slightest touch. And yet you have to flop because it's the only way that the NBA allows you to play defense nowadays, because they call fouls on the slightest touch. The NBA is an abortion of what it used to be, and it sucks.