[Mike & Mike] Morey Podcast on MVP, Winning, Shorter Season

I like it how it is. NBA players have a job, just like anyone else. 82 times a year they have to work hard for 48 minutes, and they get millions of dollars, and they get time off to vacation every single year. Go perform and do your job.

 

If doing that job 75 times instead of 82 in a season creates a better product, and increases the quality of the sport, I can't see too many reasons to be against that.

 

No matter how much they get paid, their bodies are still human.

Less back to backs and less 4 in 5 nights will keep guys healthier.

No matter how much you get paid, you can still get hurt and worn out. It will be a better product if guys are healthier and not resting

 

Best trainers, dieticians and equipment money can buy. The human body can more than handle it. It isn't Nam, it's basketball.

It was good enough for Bill, Wilt, Magic, Larry, Jordan, Shaq and Hakeem, so it is good enough for me. Let the Euro Nancies and the college boys play the short seasons. The NBA has a historical precedent of 82 games, and I enjoy every single game and have for years. (Even the Juwan Howard years)

I am all for cutting out the pre-season almost entirely If it means getting less back-to-backs. Aside from that, I like 82.

 

I would prefer 116 games per team in the regular season. Start the season 2.5 months earlier. I hate the long summer break without the Rockets.

Each team plays the 29 others teams 4 times each = 116 Games.

2 Away and 2 at Home

 

Please on fewer games.

I want to see the players healthy and energized for the players, not with lost legs.

 

I prefer 365 games during regular season. Playoffs in the a.m. While regular season in the pm

 

I would just extend the season. Only have 2 or 3 weeks of training camp (instead of the usual month) then reduce the preseason games to 4 per team. That should free up at least an additional 2 weeks for the regular season and games can be spaced out a bit more. Maybe enough to eliminate most of the back to backs.

I think eliminating back to backs should be the biggest priority, and a lot of it could be done without having to do anything to the games played by just spreading out the games better. Like the Rockets just had a week where they played 2 games in 7 days. The goal should be 3/4 games a week.

 

Link keeps sending me to Google Play. Another link possible?

 

Players have been playing this schedule for years so quit the damn crying. As the TV revenue increased the time during timeouts has lengthened as well.

On top of that they weren't being paid millions of $$ to play.

You play a damn game for a few hours a day (on average 3-4 times a week) and you can't handle it?

Baseball players play EVERY damn day from Apr through Sept.

Just lengthen the season and cut out the number of back to back games.

 

I am sorry, but basketball wasn't nearly as fast paced or demanding.

 

Baseball players don't have the same physical requirements and pitchers get 4 days rest..... come on..... just stop with such a silly comparison.

 

In Chuck Taylors? Hell yes it was...

The 80s and 90s were probably even more demanding. A case can definitely be made. Detroit/Chicago, case in point.

 

No it wasn't. You are confusing harder fouls with playing harder. The pace as a whole, not just a few teams, has increased steadily. Defenses actually cover more ground in today's NBA.

 

This.

 

Hard fouls don't make the game more "demanding"? Defenses cover more ground because they wear better shoes, have far superior medical staffs, trainers, dieticians, etc. Right? Hand checking doesn't have a direct correlation with "covering ground"?