Comments on: David Stern says NBA not shortening its season again

By: gmsingh

gmsingh — Thu, 10 May 2012 13:42:19 +0000

Both the regular season and the playoffs are too long, so if it’s all about making money that’s fine, but if it becomes about which team is lucky enough to have the least key injuries to its players I will just stop watching. Clearly Stern shows no concern whatsoever to the health of the players or what the fans are getting for their effing money. He’s a piece of crap.

By: david8726

david8726 — Wed, 09 May 2012 19:54:03 +0000

I’d love it if we had an NBA season that started in November and only had 60 or so games. That way you could eliminate back to backs an ensure that every NBA game is played at max effort since the guys are always rested.

Unfortunately, greed is probably going to prevent that from ever happening.

By: rollteal

rollteal — Wed, 09 May 2012 19:28:54 +0000

Dumbarse

By: Tim OShenko

Tim OShenko — Wed, 09 May 2012 17:25:50 +0000

Also, the fans who want more basketball get more basketball, and players get more of a chance to rest between games, hopefully meaning less chance of injury (or at least players would miss fewer games due to any one injury).

So yeah, it’s primarily about money, but there are other benefits to the longer season. No reason to be cynical about it.

By: shzastl

shzastl — Wed, 09 May 2012 16:08:46 +0000

Why stop at 82? If they make more money with more games, why not play 98? 114?

By: thestudiokida

thestudiokida — Wed, 09 May 2012 15:12:33 +0000

More meaningful games heading into the playoffs? I beg to differ.

I canceled my league pass halfway through this season expecting the big games to be televised but found instead that every major televised matchup features playoff bound teams resting their star players. There wasn’t a decent televised matchup for the last 2 weeks of the season. This season is bullocks.