Many NBA players and NBA officials, owners, GM’s, and other people of the NBA world have talked about it, the NBA season is too short and it hurts the NBA players. The wear and tear of the NBA season can be brutal. I mean have you not seen how many NBA players this season alone have had to sit out the ENTIRE season? Jabari Parker, Chris Bosh, Derrick Rose, Paul George. The NBA season is tiring for players.
Some people have given the idea of increasing the number of days in the season, or decreasing the amount of games, or even increasing the All-Star break. Now Mark Cuban has a new suggestion.
According to Tim MacMahon of ESPN:
Mavericks owner Mark Cuban said the NBA is seriously considering altering the schedule to go later into the summer as a means of reducing or potentially eliminating back-to-back games.
“I’ve been bringing it up for years,” Cuban said before the Mavs’ 99-92 win over the Toronto Raptors on Tuesday, one of three games in four nights for his team. “[Commissioner Adam Silver is] more open to it, and he’s going to be considering it. Everybody’s for it now.”
“I’d rather us go later in the season into July,” said Cuban, who still is in favor of trimming the preseason schedule. “Used to be, we had to be concerned about baseball. Now we don’t. Baseball, particularly from a media perspective, has become regional, so it doesn’t negatively impact us from a national TV perspective to go late.”
It’s an interesting idea and Adam Silver will definitely have an open ear to every suggestion as he has had in the past.
