Bo Hamburger
Years ago
Watch NBA season in same time it takes to play?
Something I was thinking about on the weekend: could you watch the entire NBA season in the time it takes to play the NBA season?
You've got a magic box attached to your telly that pulls in every game played and stores it. Could you watch all the games by the time you sat down to watch the last game of the Finals?
Some arbitrary ground rules I came up with:
- You have to watch every second of on-court action in real-time (not fast-forwarded or skimmed through), which means things like foulshots, etc. But not time-outs or quarter-time/half-time breaks.
- For a more authentic viewing experience, you have to watch two games live every night, presumably an early one from the East Coast and a late one from the West Coast.
- Six hours of sleep (ie non-watching) allocated per 24 hours.
- Yes, every game: that Knicks-Heat game has to be watched just as much as a Lakers-Suns game.
I'm not sure how many games in total are played in the NBA each season (obviously depends on how long playoff series' go) but say if you could watch each taped game in 90 minutes, and the live ones take 3 hours each, could it be done?
(The question of should it be done can be left for another time!)