Around the NBA: Week 15 (1/27 - 2/2)

[TOO]

Now Poobanks will be awesome.

[In2ition]

Did anyone see this?

If this happens, look at all the talent around the league right now, and the talent coming up. I could see the league moving quickly to a large expansion. As, there would be a lot of good players not getting any floor time. International basketball and the talent coming out of Europe is increasing, but it's also increasing coming from Australia and even Japan. If you combine this with them ultimately having teams in Europe, and the teams get these commercial airlines that go supersonic, it would make a lot of sense. Perhaps a team in Vegas, Seattle, Mexico City happens sooner than expected. Supposedly, they will seat up to 55 passengers, and I could see an owner like Ishbia buy a plane for his team, to cut down on any type of jet lag.

[Cap]

Did anyone see this?

If this happens, look at all the talent around the league right now, and the talent coming up. I could see the league moving quickly to a large expansion. As, there would be a lot of good players not getting any floor time. International basketball and the talent coming out of Europe is increasing, but it's also increasing coming from Australia and even Japan. If you combine this with them ultimately having teams in Europe, and the teams get these commercial airlines that go supersonic, it would make a lot of sense. Perhaps a team in Vegas, Seattle, Mexico City happens sooner than expected. Supposedly, they will seat up to 55 passengers, and I could see an owner like Ishbia buy a plane for his team, to cut down on any type of jet lag.

Oh, vomit. We have 15-man rosters now. We should be making teams expand rotations, not narrow them.

[In2ition]

Did anyone see this?

If this happens, look at all the talent around the league right now, and the talent coming up. I could see the league moving quickly to a large expansion. As, there would be a lot of good players not getting any floor time. International basketball and the talent coming out of Europe is increasing, but it's also increasing coming from Australia and even Japan. If you combine this with them ultimately having teams in Europe, and the teams get these commercial airlines that go supersonic, it would make a lot of sense. Perhaps a team in Vegas, Seattle, Mexico City happens sooner than expected. Supposedly, they will seat up to 55 passengers, and I could see an owner like Ishbia buy a plane for his team, to cut down on any type of jet lag.

Oh, vomit. We have 15-man rosters now. We should be making teams expand rotations, not narrow them.

There is a lot of talent not seeing the floor. I could see them contract the roster, if it's only 40 minutes and possibly even let guys play longer into their careers. You are essentially taking 48 minutes of playing time away for each team. It would definitely help a large plan for expansion. The purists will hate it though.

[Flagrant Fowl]

I hate this 10 minute quarters nonsense because it's not at all going to curb issues some people have with the watchability.

There needs to be a serious commitment to overhauling officiating to reduce the amount of whistles, greater restrictions on timeout usage, and complete elimination of mandatory media timeouts. Of course those things won't happen because greedy schmucks have to maintain revenue growth, so they invent an ineffective solution.

[Cap]

I could see them contract the roster

I could see the player association striking and never returning.

[pickle]

I hate this 10 minute quarters nonsense because it's not at all going to curb issues some people have with the watchability.

There needs to be a serious commitment to overhauling officiating to reduce the amount of whistles, greater restrictions on timeout usage, and complete elimination of mandatory media timeouts. Of course those things won't happen because greedy schmucks have to maintain revenue growth, so they invent an ineffective solution.

My only disagreement with your post is that I’d replace the word schmucks with another one that rhymes. Otherwise this perfectly sums up my sentiment.

[Kryptonic]

I hate this 10 minute quarters nonsense because it's not at all going to curb issues some people have with the watchability.

There needs to be a serious commitment to overhauling officiating to reduce the amount of whistles, greater restrictions on timeout usage, and complete elimination of mandatory media timeouts. Of course those things won't happen because greedy schmucks have to maintain revenue growth, so they invent an ineffective solution.

If they wanna reduce anything…. Reduce the season to 72 games with all back to backs gone.

[In2ition]

I could see them contract the roster

I could see the player association striking and never returning.

Idk, CJ McCollum didn't do the players any favors with the last negotiation. This would probably be a bonus to the players as it would add more overall players to the league. I could see it being spun as to favor the players and make it player friendly.

[Split T]

32 teams, 4 divisions of 8 teams, 4 games each against division opponents, 2 games each against everyone else. 76 total games. Division winners get seeds 1-4. Everyone else just sees 5-16. No conferences.

[ShelC]

Nothing's "fixing" the ratings. The NBA schedule and the game itself isn't for mass consumption like football. Football is communal, it's once a week that people plan for and it's not nonstop action. You have a 5-10 second play and then 40 seconds to chill, talk, eat, check your phone. There's literally 10-12 minutes of actual action in a football game.

None of the gimmicks will work- shorter season, shorter games, tournaments, Disney characters calling games...it is what it is. The demo is more into highlights and the discourse around the league than the actual games.

Look at the media/content created and consumed over the weekend with the Luka-AD trade. The NFL, MLB, NHL can't touch that and that's what the NBA and its media partners/content creators should be boasting about.

[Split T]

Ya I don’t actually care that much about the ratings. Just my own personal enjoyment. Ratings are down because cable subscriptions are down…I think that’s the brunt of it

[Cap]

I could see them contract the roster

I could see the player association striking and never returning.

Idk, CJ McCollum didn't do the players any favors with the last negotiation. This would probably be a bonus to the players as it would add more overall players to the league. I could see it being spun as to favor the players and make it player friendly.

Contracting the roster adds more players? Huh?

[In2ition]

I could see them contract the roster

I could see the player association striking and never returning.

Idk, CJ McCollum didn't do the players any favors with the last negotiation. This would probably be a bonus to the players as it would add more overall players to the league. I could see it being spun as to favor the players and make it player friendly.

Contracting the roster adds more players? Huh?

If you are adding more teams. Idk if you saw that part.

[Wally_West]

I think part of the ratings problems is that they make it too complicated and expensive to watch games. Way easier right now to just go to a streaming site like *******, *********,**********, *********.

Spoiler: show/hide

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[Cap]

I could see them contract the roster

I could see the player association striking and never returning.

Idk, CJ McCollum didn't do the players any favors with the last negotiation. This would probably be a bonus to the players as it would add more overall players to the league. I could see it being spun as to favor the players and make it player friendly.

Contracting the roster adds more players? Huh?

If you are adding more teams. Idk if you saw that part.

If you cut the roster back from 15 to 12, you’d have to expand from 30 teams to 38 in order to break even. If you’re looking to expand the workforce while doing this, we’re talking 40 teams.

[In2ition]

Yeah, that could be the number.

[Cap]

Ten expansion teams? You think that's practical? I don't.

Although where to put them is a fun exercise. Seattle, Vegas, San Diego, St Louis, Kansas City, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Louisville, Monterrey, Montreal?

Players who don't know Spanish/French might not like being traded to Monterrey/Montreal... I guess those are bad ideas.

[In2ition]

Ten expansion teams? You think that's practical? I don't.

Although where to put them is a fun exercise. Seattle, Vegas, San Diego, St Louis, Kansas City, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Louisville, Monterrey, Montreal?

Players who don't know Spanish/French might not like being traded to Monterrey/Montreal... I guess those are bad ideas.

I guess you didn't read everything that I wrote about it, and how with the emergence of supersonic commercial flights, they could begin expansion into Europe, or even Asia. I doubt that they would open up most of the teams in the US, probably 2 at the most(Seattle & Las Vegas).

[Wally_West]