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Shorter Game, More Commercials

Better officiating would speed the game up. Stop calling ticky-tack fouls and stop the star treatment. Breathing on an all-star doesn't constitute a foul; you actually must make contact.
 
This ****s with history and doesn't really save players gas, wear and tear, and doesn't increase the importance of each game. Keep it the ****ing same, or if you're going to **** with it, do it for the RIGHT reasons. They make enough ****ing money.
 
heyhey said:
More commercials less basketball. Against it. What was Cuban saying about greedy pigs?


"Just watch. Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. When you try to take it too far, people turn the other way. I'm just telling you, when you've got a good thing and you get greedy, it always, always, always, always, always turns on you. That's rule No. 1 of business."
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Damn.

I kind of hate that I love Mark Cuban.
 
I don't think anyone has a problem with how long the game lasts. They just have a problem with how long the end of the game can take.
 
This idea is so bad. I wish I believed fans would boycott if they tried it, but I think we all know that any protest would be short-lived. I'm very unimpressed by Silver for even considering this, let alone actually testing it in a game.
 
Enes CanTear You Apart said:
Don't know about the timeout issue but I hate the idea of 44 min games. I advocate for FIBA games to be 48 mins like in the NBA, not the other way around.

However, I believe that 82 regular games is too many, there are just so many meaningless games.
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If they were really worried about the players health as they claim they could drop preseason games. That's 8 games.

82 might sound like a lot but it's really not. Take a physical job like a hod tender. I'd say 250 8 hour days.

Further evidence would be the workout and training that NBA players do. If they don't they get out of shape. Pretty hard to argue that the season is too long if you have to workout on your off time to keep from getting fat imo.
 
sgjazzfan said:
I don't think anyone has a problem with how long the game lasts. They just have a problem with how long the end of the game can take.
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I assume you realize that this is not being done to address any sort of problem fans have with the game whatsoever. It's nothing but a money grab.
 
NUMBERICA said:
Damn.

I kind of hate that I love Mark Cuban.
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To be fair I found this>

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban indicated that he hoped the 44-minute games do not get past the preseason experimental stage.

""I can't get enough NBA," Cuban told ESPNDallas.com via the Cyber Dust messaging app. "Best entertainment in the world. So more is better."

Cuban understood Spoelstra's point about the value of games but noted that trimming the NBA schedule would have a wide-reaching economic impact.

"More games are always a risk," Cuban said. "But we play in facilities and employ a lot of people who benefit from those games."

https://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/11700335/brooklyn-nets-boston-celtics-play-44-minute-preseason-game
 
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