Should The NBA Reduce Number Of Games?
I know this article is not going to make me a lot of friends, but I had to get this idea of mine out there. I was trying to think about reasons why I enjoy watching the NFL so much more then the NBA, I love playing both sports, and I love watching the NBA come playoff time. So what is it about regular season NBA games that is deterring me from tuning in to every game?
Well here is my idea. Reduce the number of regular season games. Why? Well if you think about it, NFL games are so exciting and so crucial because the game counts for soooooo much. It is intense and you know you have to win. What NFL games do you not bother to watch? The ones when the team already has clinched and the other team can’t make the playoffs so they sit the starters. The game essentially doesn’t matter, like a majority of the NBA games. It seems like the players of the NBA know this and half the time are lazy on defense and are not giving 110%. Why does there need to be 82 NBA regular season games? Wouldn’t it be way more exciting if there was like 30? Every game would become a must win type scenario. Right now in the NBA you can make the playoffs with over 30 losses and losing records, it is ridiculous!
To help prove my point, lets use NCAA Men’s Basketball. There are less games in their season so these kids are trying much harder to win every game, and I enjoy watching the NCAA regular season much more then the NBA. I know there are other reasons why they play harder, like getting drafted, but less games is a major factor as well.
Some people may say; why not do the same for baseball then? Well in my opinion, baseball’s length of the season is a part of the actual game of baseball. Endurance and pitching rotation is a major part of the strategy of the actual game.
Now I am sure that at first glance NBA fans will throw me up on the cross to be crucified for suggesting that they shorten the sport season that they love watching, but think about it for a bit before you disagree…
How many of your favorite NBA team’s games have you missed for non emergency reasons, and how many of your favorite NFL team’s games have you missed?
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The NBA is 3 quarters of flash and 1 quarter of actual game… Even the best guys and teams coast through the first 34 minutes then put the pedal to the metal in the fourth… I agree by shortening the season we would see less fluff in the NBA, which is no doubt why the ratings are so low for the regular season (its more of a production than true sportsdom). If games meant more players would try harded, fans would appreciate more, and ratings would rise giving way to the playoffs that no one would miss…
I agree, I even think a 60 game season would make it better!
Keep it 82 games
LOL, no reason with that answer Kittels?
All about the money…this will never happen
I know it will never happen, that wasn’t really the point
No reason for an answer, I was just stating that ti should stay 82. As someone that loves the NBA I feel like it would ruin it the only way you could justify shortening it is instead of playing the teams in your conference 4 times, teams in their division 5 game and teams in the other conference 2 you could just play each team twice.
Example: Right now the Miama he with the scheduling the way it is right now they play every team in the Eastern conference 4 times, then everyone in the Southeastern division 5 times and every team in the Western Conference twice. so if you changed it where they only played each team in the NBA twice you could shorten the season to 58 games, thats the only way it work
Well i think that solution sounds a lot better then the full 82 games right now. Do you see my point of the games not as exciting because they dont mean as much (until the end of the season). I mean your team can have a losing record with over 30 losses and you dont have to worry about it because they can still make the playoffs
What if they lost 30 games they would be 52-30 how is that a losing record? But I would like to see it stay at 82 games because I love to watch as much basketball as possible
ya but 30 losses in the NBA is considered a good season… Like last year you would be in the top 10 if you had only 30 losses.