Miami Heat’s Erik Spoelstra Says There Are Too Many NBA Games

Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra says the NBA has too many games on their regular season schedule.

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Many have suggested the NBA plays far too many games during their regular season and that appears to be a sentiment echoed by Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra.

As noted on Tuesday, the NBA is experimenting with the possibility of reducing a game from 48-minutes to 44-minutes though Spoelstra believes a better change would simply be to reduce the amount of games played.

“I don’t think it’s a matter of how long the game is,” Spoelstra said. “I think there’s too many games, to be frank. I think if there’s some way to find a way to cut out some of the back-to-backs so there aren’t 20-plus of them. I think that’s the bigger issue, not shaving off four minutes in a particular game. But I’m open to seeing what happens with that.”

While a four minute reduction per game doesn’t seem like much on the surface, it would shave off a considerable amount of time in an 82-game schedule. Of course, if the NBA really wanted to reduce the impact on players they’d cut games off the schedule as noted by the Miami Heat coach.

Of course doing so would cost the league and individual teams a significant amount of money considering they’d lose advertising revenue, so it doesn’t appear the idea of reducing the games on the schedule is something that will be considered in the near future.

It’s still a little shocking that the NBA is even considering a minute reduction given the advertising revenue they could potentially lose, though they could extend commercial breaks to soften the blow. There wouldn’t be many alternatives to create more revenue if they were to cut games off the schedule.

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