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Exit Stern, enter Silver.
No difference. The NBA commissioner still thinks all fans are morons.
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/eye-on-basketball/24751884/nba-experimenting-with-44-minute-game
The NBA is experimenting with the length of its games. The Boston Celtics and Brooklyn Nets will play a 44-minute contest at Barclay's center on Oct. 19 "to examine the flow of a shorter game as compared to the standard 48-minute game," the league announced on Tuesday. From the press release:
So let me get this straight...
The 48-min format has a total of SIX mandatory timeouts (3 in the 2nd, 3 in the 4th, but apparently none in the 1st or 3rd). The 44-min game will have EIGHT mandatory timeouts (2 in each quarter). This has ABSOLUTELY ZERO to do with speeding up the length of the game. Now that a GINORMOUS TV deal has been awarded, extra advertising revenue needs to be raised by adding more commercials. Fans are getting screwed, not to mention the historical comparison of records. Hey, with only 44 minutes, teams no longer need 15 players. Let's just go to 8-man teams, with all 8 players getting at least $10M each.
Silver, Stern and Thorn should have been taken out in left field and shot a long time ago.
No difference. The NBA commissioner still thinks all fans are morons.
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/eye-on-basketball/24751884/nba-experimenting-with-44-minute-game
The NBA is experimenting with the length of its games. The Boston Celtics and Brooklyn Nets will play a 44-minute contest at Barclay's center on Oct. 19 "to examine the flow of a shorter game as compared to the standard 48-minute game," the league announced on Tuesday. From the press release:
“At our recent coaches' meeting, we had a discussion about the length of our games, and it was suggested that we consider experimenting with a shorter format,” said NBA President, Basketball Operations Rod Thorn. “After consulting with our Competition Committee, we agreed to allow the Nets and Celtics to play a 44-minute preseason game in order to give us some preliminary data that will help us to further analyze game-time lengths.”
Application of the experimental 44-minute game will involve quarters being reduced from their typical 12 minutes each to 11 and a reduction in mandatory timeouts in the second and fourth quarters. During this 44-minute game, each quarter will feature two mandatory timeouts per quarter, with the first triggered at the first dead ball under 6:59 of the period if neither team has taken a timeout prior, and the second mandatory timeout will be triggered by the first dead ball under 2:59 if neither team has taken a timeout subsequent to the first mandatory timeout. In the NBA's 48-minute game, the second and fourth quarters have three mandatory timeouts.
Application of the experimental 44-minute game will involve quarters being reduced from their typical 12 minutes each to 11 and a reduction in mandatory timeouts in the second and fourth quarters. During this 44-minute game, each quarter will feature two mandatory timeouts per quarter, with the first triggered at the first dead ball under 6:59 of the period if neither team has taken a timeout prior, and the second mandatory timeout will be triggered by the first dead ball under 2:59 if neither team has taken a timeout subsequent to the first mandatory timeout. In the NBA's 48-minute game, the second and fourth quarters have three mandatory timeouts.
So let me get this straight...
The 48-min format has a total of SIX mandatory timeouts (3 in the 2nd, 3 in the 4th, but apparently none in the 1st or 3rd). The 44-min game will have EIGHT mandatory timeouts (2 in each quarter). This has ABSOLUTELY ZERO to do with speeding up the length of the game. Now that a GINORMOUS TV deal has been awarded, extra advertising revenue needs to be raised by adding more commercials. Fans are getting screwed, not to mention the historical comparison of records. Hey, with only 44 minutes, teams no longer need 15 players. Let's just go to 8-man teams, with all 8 players getting at least $10M each.
Silver, Stern and Thorn should have been taken out in left field and shot a long time ago.