Adam Silver is considering a mid-season tournament, less basketball for the NBA

The Commissioner of the National Basketball Association has great ideas for changing the league. However, it is not even sure that people will want to hear them.

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Via the AP:

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Silver did not hesitate to answer this last question.

FA Cup or Copa del Rey, but for basketball

To give some theater in the regular season, Silver has painted a picture that is very similar to European football, where tournaments are integrated into the league calendars and have a lot of sense for the fans.

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<p class = "canvas-atom canvas-text Mb (1.0em) Mb (0) – sm Mt (0.8em) – sm" type = "text" content = ""I know that for most American viewers, it's a very foreign concept because we're not used to having multiple goals during the season," Silver said. "But as I said, it's very commonplace in international football.It would take some time to develop these new traditions, because I think the initial reaction may be who cares to win the mid-season tournament, everything revolves around the Larry O & # 39; Brien Trophy, so we need to take a long-term perspective on these things."data-reactid =" 27 ">"I know that for most American viewers, it's a very foreign concept because we're not used to having multiple goals during the season," Silver said. "But as I said, it's very commonplace in international football.It would take some time to develop these new traditions, because I think the initial reaction may be who cares to win the mid-season tournament, everything revolves around the Larry O & # 39; Brien Trophy, so we need to take a long-term perspective on these things.

Silver does not seem to offer any specific idea of ​​the tournament idea, but there are a number of possibilities.

There could be tournaments deciding on certain playoffs or rankings, a short tournament replacing the star game (something Silver said in the past "did not work"), maybe even a tournament among the lottery teams for the first choice. Silver thinks outside the box, and it could go in a lot of directions.

What if the NBA played less basketball?

Another question that Silver would have talked about would be the health of the players and how to mitigate the difficulties of a regular season of 82 games. Some of the ideas mentioned include relatively conventional changes – opening the season earlier, a longer break for the stars, reducing the number of consecutive games – but it also mentions an idea that would thrill the abundance of the league and its holders of rights: do not have a regular season of 82 games in first place:

<p class = "canvas-atom canvas-text Mb (1.0em) Mb (0) – sm Mt (0.8em) – sm" type = "text" content = ""I think the fans might be right in thinking that if, in the end, science suggests that 82 games are too many games for these players, you should not have an 82-game season," he said. Silver. & # 39; & # 39; I accept it, and it is something that we will continue to examine. & # 39; & # 39;"data-reactid =" 32 ">"I think the fans might be right in thinking that if, in the end, science suggests that 82 games are too many games for these players, you should not have an 82-game season," he said. Silver. & # 39; & # 39; I accept it, and it is something that we will continue to examine. & # 39; & # 39;

Another idea raised by Silver is simply to shorten games from 48 minutes to 40 minutes, the length of college basketball games.

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