Isaac
Last month

NBA commissioner Silver keen on 10-minute quarters

"I am a fan of four 10-minute quarters. I'm not sure how many others are, and putting aside what it means for records and things like that, I think that a two-hour format for a game is more consistent with modern television habits."

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Cram  
Last month

He is right, and I think if most people are honest they would agree.

The two big things are gonna be - shorter games equals less time for adds - cant see broadcasters getting behind that. Also the thing about records and stuff would be huge and the league has 75 years of history. I can't see them making that change.

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Jayhoops  
Last month

Players want fewer games. That's a non-negotiable for the NBA due to the massive loss in revenue, not to mention how it wiuld impact their broadcasting agreements.

Silver's in favor of anything that doesn't lead to that outcome.

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NBLTigers  
Last month

Get Silvers thinking since he doesn't want to cut 82 game season. Personally just leave 48min game but cut the season back 20 less games. Goes far too long anyway.

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The Phantom  
Last month

Make it simple home and away season, get rid of divisions.
But doubt they'll do it based on revenue as mentioned.

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Another Anon  
Last month

They still wouldn't fit a 40min game within 2hrs!!

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BALLER#3  
Last month

I think this would be the way to go for the NBA. The amount of ads wouldnt be drastically less gvien they would still have a similar amount of breaks minus a couple time outs potentially. It would be a good compromise for players, but still doesn't reduce the amount of travel.

I think with a couple extra teams in the near future a home and away season could also work. That would be a 62 game season with 32 teams. I would then expand the NBA cup to include top teams from around the world. Get it to a 64 team group stage and play the group stage before the regular season tips off.

16 groups of 4. Each group has 2 x NBA teams and 2 x international teams. Then round of 32 onwards is knock out. That gets most NBA teams 4 extra games unless they lose the group stage and gets the whole world involved in the NBA. You know some euroteam would go on fairytale run to the round of 16 or something.

Realistically, the NBA care too much about records anyway. There are always arguments anyway like Lebron vs Jordans numbers when Lebron is playing within the 3 point shooting era and Jordan didnt.

The NBA is getting stale real fast. Every game feels the same and is essentially unwatchable except for the last 5 minutes. Yes there are a few highlights, but the copy and paste product for every team at the moment is unbearable.

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Perthworld  
Last month

The NBA is getting stale real fast. Every game feels the same and is essentially unwatchable except for the last 5 minutes. Yes there are a few highlights, but the copy and paste product for every team at the moment is unbearable.

I thought your Cotton Japan naturalisation joke was good but this comment tops that.

On a per minute basis the NBA is excruciatingly boring. It reminds me of American fast good and Hollywood - produced and churned out off of a monotonously repetitive template.

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Perthworld  
Last month

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