Blake Griffin says 66 games is the ideal length for an NBA season

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Blake Griffin says 66 games is the ideal length for an NBA season

Post by Fran » Fri Aug 21, 2015 4:10 pm

I agree with him the NBA season is too long.

http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/ ... article%5D

The debate over how long the NBA season should be is a complicated one. It’s highly unlikely that it will be shortened from 82 anytime soon, because neither the players nor the owners want to give up the revenue from extra games. But as the league makes an effort to cut down on back-to-backs and four-games-in-five-nights stretches in the regular-season schedule, it’s a discussion that isn’t going away.

CBSSports.com’s Ken Berger asked a handful of players about it at Team USA minicamp in Las Vegas last week, and most of them supported keeping the schedule at 82 games. But Blake Griffin argued that 66 is the ideal length:

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Post by nksports » Fri Aug 21, 2015 8:19 pm

[quote=""Fran""]because neither the players nor the owners want to give up the revenue from extra games.[/quote]

Ding, ding, ding, ding. We have a winner.
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Post by Hockey » Fri Aug 21, 2015 10:08 pm

With so much TV money even if by going to 66 games they forfeited 20% of those TV contracts they would still be making crazy profit.

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Post by preeths » Sat Aug 22, 2015 1:15 am

But not as much crazy money. Hard to find guys who want to "give" anything back.

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