The NBA commissioner Adam Silver has raised the likelihood that the American basketball league might someday go from 12 minutes to 10 minutes to court docket a altering viewers and align with worldwide guidelines.
“I’m a fan of 4 10 -minute quarters,” stated Silver on “The Dan Patrick Present” on Wednesday, though he acknowledged that such a change would require lots of research.
“I am unsure that many others are,” he stated. “It’s such a dramatic change within the recreation. I feel one thing like that ought to be extra about it over time.”
And, added Silver, it isn’t one thing that the league actively envisages.
“It isn’t totally at this stage,” stated Silver, who answered a query in regards to the guidelines of guidelines that the league officers mentioned.
The NBA has performed 48 minutes of matches all through its historical past, however Olympic matches and different worldwide matches final 40 minutes, whereas the male video games in the USA are performed in two 20-minute durations.
If the League has ever chosen to make the change, it could in all probability make data in a single match and in a single season unattainable to beat.
“As a result of this recreation is so world, one of many issues we want to see over time is to create a set of extra coherent guidelines all over the world across the recreation,” stated Silver.
“Put apart what it could imply for discs and issues like that, I feel {that a} two -hour format for a recreation is extra constant for contemporary tv habits.”
Such a motion might additionally make much less put on on gamers in the course of the sprawling NBA season, with out sacrificing the matches.
New York Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau requested Silver’s feedback earlier than his crew’s match towards the Denver Nuggets on Wednesday, didn’t like the thought.
“I’m extra a conventional man, so I’d hate to see this … simply due to all of the recordings and issues of this nature,” stated Thibodeau.
“I feel what followers admire is a giant competitors,” added Thibodeau. “I feel that if we deal with the side of the competitors, the whole lot else will likely be arrange.”
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