How
long should a typical NBA season last? Right now, a season of the
world's top professional basketball league spans 82 games in
elimination. Concerns about NBA's longevity were raised a couple of
seasons ago due to the injuries being accumulated by top players.
They think the wearing travel and high amount of number of games
negatively affect the players fitness.
NBA
players have polarizing take on the matter though. For Los Angeles
Clippers star forward thinks 82 games should be reduced to 66 spread
over the same number of month.
“Sixty-six,
spread over the same amount of time [as the current 82-game season],”
Griffin said when asked by CBS Sports' Ken Berger about the 82 game
per season.
“Fatigue
and injuries, and better product. If you have less games, less
back-to-backs, the product's better. The fans will appreciate it
more. You see those college guys playing so hard, but they play 36
games in the same amount of time we play 82 almost. I just think it
would be a better product.”
On
the other hand, Draymond Green of recently-minted NBA Champions
Golden State Warriors thinks long stretch helps teams in finding
their form. So, he would rather keep 82 games.
"I
don't know if you can necessarily say there's a better way because
it's never been done. Within the course of the 82, some people catch
their stride, as you saw the season before last year. The Spurs
caught their stride in like the last 35-40 games. If you're not
playing 82, do they catch their stride? Are they world champions? Who
knows? So it's kind of hard to judge. I think it's a slippery slope
when you get to assessing that because, yeah, what was the lockout
year, 66? So you saw that, but you also saw three games in three
days, which you can't judge off that, either. And then there's going
to be an unhappy party, because the owners aren't going to make as
much money, which means the players won't make as much money. So I
think it's a slippery slope. At the end of the day, our league has
done great. Is that something to really tinker with? Probably not. Is
there really a reason to? Yeah, guys get tired. But are you going to
get tired if there's 65 games? Probably so. I just think that's a
tough subject."
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