SI.Com Article - "NBA Regular Season is Meaningless"

I'm OK with the season as is. In fact -- I miss it and can't wait for it to start! I think the playoffs are too long. Too many off days.

and if I can take a dig at MLB -- you do see writers and fans clamoring for less games. So much so that you're more likely to see empty ballparks (even when the tickets are sold) then you are in the NBA.

You've a good recent history in Houston of September games actually meaning something -- that's not the case in may (empty!) ballparks.

 

They need to have less games, e.g. 58 games. They also need to make regular season count. Teams' revenue and players' salary scales with their total win, of course add some weight to playoff games.

Right now, players' income are barely affected by their success.

 

I'm with adeelionaire, I just like watching Rockets basketball. Any Rockets basketball.

 

I'm with clos4life. I really enjoy watching pro basketball. I can't stand the ofseason. The more games the better.

 

yea why dont we just make 16 games over 17 weeks like the NFL, everyone would love that. Oh thats right even the NFL wants to play more games. More games = more fun. Sure the rockets were out of it early this season, but the games were still exciting.

now teams like the clipper and twolves that are consistently bad are just cheating their customers because of poor management skills.

 

this... its fine the way it is IMO

 

Bull****...


I would shoot myself If I couldn't watch my Rox 82 times a year.

 

The solution isn't to decrease the amount of games in the regular season, it's to decrease the amount of teams (and consequently, the number of games) in the playoffs. The NBA is the only major U.S. sport where more teams go to the playoffs than don't. It's ridiculous.

 

40 game seasons with a 8 team playoff system.

 

Same, 82 is perfect for me

 

Simple solution:

- Shorten the pre-season to 4-5 games

- Play an 86 game schedule with 4 games vs each team in your conference + 2 games vs each team out of conference.

That would eliminate playing certain teams in your conference only 3 times.

 

Lol...

Nobody is with Mazyar.

 

Wow less games? Really? So if I miss a few games due to work, sick, lazy, being kidnapped, I would miss out even more of the season relatively speaking?

Hell no.

82 games is fine as it is.

If they want less games, they better take a pay cut and give me NBA TV for free.

 

LMAO! Hockey?!

 

I'm with the thadeus, I really enjoy your mother.

Btw, I think 82 games is fine with more length (which could lead to fewer back to backs), shorter playoffs, and fewer playoff teams.

 

I dont mind playing 82 games in the season, but get less playoffs games, especially in the 1st round.

I would prefer less teams in the playoffs than less games in regular season.
It would be better less teams, because in the East even when you had more losses than wins, you could still get to the playoffs.

 

same regular season games, same playoff format. maybe less back to backs cos it can favor one team over another when it comes down to playoff seedings.

also i havent been interested in the allstar weekend for a few yrs now. i dont wish it to be removed cos i know itll help the league to showcase their stars, but wondering, who else feels this way abt it?

 

Anybody care to give a tl;dr version?

 

There needs to be about 10-20 less games during the regular season. It tends to get unexciting between late December through early February. Then All Star Weekend comes up and the season gains flair again.

In addition, I think only six teams should make the playoffs per conference. The two top ranked teams should get first round byes.

Most importantly though, they should correct the huge blunder they made and move the first round of playoffs back to a 5 game series. It's so unnecessary watching a 7 game first round series. I tend to watch less later on because the initial playoff excitement hardly lasts past the first round. If that round was shorter, I would be a lot more interested later on. This might also have to do with the fact that the Rockets almost never advance anymore... but