- June 14th, 2020, 11:23 am
#602280
Basketball is too long but you’d rather watch a sport with 162 games?
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JK37 wrote: ↑June 14th, 2020, 11:01 am I’m an average watcher of the NBA, only increasing lately now that I live in an NBA locality. That said, the season is too long as it is. Hard to get up for games four months from playoff time when half the league makes the playoffs. And the playoffs take almost two months themselves. Start at Christmas, fine. But going all the way to August just sound like overkill to me. I’ll take my baseball in summer, please and thank you.July is kind of a TV wasteland at the moment outside the MLB All Star game. Run it through July give people something to watch and get out of the heat. Plenty of time for the cool kids to buy their NBA championship stuff for school starting in August and September Hockey fans should love it. WNBA fans should hate it. Arena owners should also love it. I’m really warming up to the idea. Now if they can just improve the quality of play...
JK37 wrote: ↑June 14th, 2020, 12:25 pm Good point. WNBA is screwed.Honestly I’m not sure most of the players will care. How many have sat out a season over the years to rest for the overseas leagues since they make more money?
Jonathan Carone wrote: ↑June 14th, 2020, 1:01 pm How big is the overlap of NBA fan vs WNBA fan? It could work like college and you see cities start pairing up NBA/WNBA and supporting each other.I’m just going to say it....have the WNBA play preliminary to the NBA games. Like JV/Varsity.....
thepostman wrote: ↑June 14th, 2020, 8:54 am No. The earliest would be December 1st but I think a Christmas Day start is something a lot of people feel is a good start day. Christmas Day games are always pretty big for the NBA.Christmas Day NBA is just amazing stuff.
JK37 wrote: ↑June 14th, 2020, 11:01 am I’m an average watcher of the NBA, only increasing lately now that I live in an NBA locality. That said, the season is too long as it is. Hard to get up for games four months from playoff time when half the league makes the playoffs. And the playoffs take almost two months themselves. Start at Christmas, fine. But going all the way to August just sound like overkill to me. I’ll take my baseball in summer, please and thank you.MLB regular season is as long as the NBA's
lynchburgwildcats wrote: ↑June 21st, 2020, 11:37 pmMLB plays double the games in the same length of time and the playoffs take half the time. It's amazing that a sport that plays almost 200 games before they hit the playoffs can finish a season in less time than the NBA and nhl. Whatever it takes to make that money I guess.JK37 wrote: ↑June 14th, 2020, 11:01 am I’m an average watcher of the NBA, only increasing lately now that I live in an NBA locality. That said, the season is too long as it is. Hard to get up for games four months from playoff time when half the league makes the playoffs. And the playoffs take almost two months themselves. Start at Christmas, fine. But going all the way to August just sound like overkill to me. I’ll take my baseball in summer, please and thank you.MLB regular season is as long as the NBA's
I do agree the NBA playoffs take too long, but that's mostly because of TV nowadays. They want to prevent as much overlap as realistically possible to get ratings up, as better ratings = more TV money and more advertising money.