Shorten the NBA season!

[logic]

A shorter season makes sense to me. Not 50 games but 76 games makes sense to me using this formula:

4 games vs. 4 divisional rivals = 16
3 games vs. 10 conference rivals = 30
2 games vs. 15 other conferece teams = 30

A 76 game season.

And what would be the point of bothering to shorten it for only 6 fewer games? That is not worth the headache.

 

[Stakesarehigh]

"make less money so the same people who watch the playoffs will watch them anyway"

 

[HurricaneDij39]

yah 6 games is more realistic than getting rid of 18 games, but if you got rid of 18 games you could actually start the season in spring and finish the world series in fall.

as a person that has personally been to Opening Day games that were eventually snowed-out, and World Series games whre you are freezing your balls off, it would be nice if the season could start towards the end of April and by the 3/4th week of October.

I agree that one great thing about basbeall is comparing the numbers over generations and cutting the games down would destroy that.

I remember in the strike-shortened 144 game season Albert Belle went for 50 homers and 50 doubles. INSANE. And he did not even win MVP because the media hated him and the media kissed Mo Vaughn's ass. One of the biggest robberies in sports MVP history if you ask me.

I wonder if Belle was on steroids at that time.

As a Cubs fan, Sammy Sosa was my guy growing up and he literally went from 36 homers to 66 in one season, and well, you know the story (gotta be the juice)...

 

[SJ76]

the reg season in the nba is pointless, almost as much as baseball, but those dollars matter. I mean when a team is actively "resting" their superstar every night for "conservation" you know how much the season matters

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Shorten it where you don’t have back to backs