Simply over half of the NBA season has handed, and Commissioner Adam Silver’s seek for methods to enhance the league seems in full swing.
This week, Silver floated a drastic rule change for the size of quarters throughout NBA video games.
The NBA performs 12-minute quarters. If the NBA had been to undertake a Silver proposal, these intervals could be lowered by two minutes. Ten-minute quarters would take eight minutes off the sport clock.
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NBA Commissioner Adam Silver speaks at a press convention earlier than a recreation between Los Angeles Lakers and Indiana Pacers on the T-Cell Enviornment in Las Vegas, Dec. 9, 2023. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu by way of Getty Photos)
Silver famous that the discount may create a extra “constant” presentation for basketball followers who watch video games on TV.
“I’m a fan of 4, 10-minute quarters,” Silver advised “The Dan Patrick Present” when requested concerning the extra drastic concepts the NBA has thought-about.
“I am unsure that many others are … placing apart what it means for information and issues like that. I feel {that a} two-hour format for a recreation is extra in step with fashionable tv habits. Folks in arenas aren’t asking us to shorten the sport, however … as a tv program, Olympic basketball is 2 hours. Faculty basketball is 40 minutes.”
At one level, Silver cited the size of video games performed in different leagues around the globe.
“The NBA is the one (basketball) league that performs 48 minutes. … It is such a dramatic change to the sport. … One thing like that must be talked extra about over time.”
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In the course of the Summer season Olympics, basketball video games final 40 minutes. Faculty basketball video games within the U.S. are divided into 20-minute halves.
“As a result of this recreation is so world, one of many issues we might wish to see over time is making a extra constant algorithm globally across the recreation,” Silver mentioned.
A basketball subsequent to an NBA brand throughout a break within the first half of a recreation in Las Vegas. (Ethan Miller/Getty Photos)
Silver famous that shaving two minutes off quarters may scale back the damage and tear on gamers over a 82-game season, whereas probably serving to the league fight its “load administration” concern.
“By the way, for those who went to a 40-minute recreation — with the problems round load administration and resting — it could be the equal of … taking like 15 video games off the season,” Silver mentioned.
Silver made it clear the concepts he talked about throughout the change with Patrick had merely been mentioned, however they’re nowhere close to being adopted.
“It is not fairly at that degree,” he mentioned.
The NBA brand on a backboard earlier than a recreation between the Houston Rockets and the Miami Warmth at Toyota Heart in Houston April 5, 2024. (Troy Taormina/USA At the moment Sports activities)
Silver additionally praised Main League Baseball for including a pitch clock. He argued the change helped “pace up the sport,” whereas additionally protecting conventional features of the sport in place.
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“I am a baseball fan, and I feel a few of these adjustments have actually elevated type of the engagement … the leisure worth of the sport, and so I am paying plenty of consideration to that,” Silver mentioned.
“And, in actual fact, I’ve used the pitch clock … in conferences on the NBA to say … we should not be afraid to take a look at adjustments.”
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