Carmelo Anthony Wants Back-To-Back Games Reduced

New York Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony wants the NBA to reduce the number of back-to-back games.

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When the NBA schedule comes out every season, one of the first things most do is check how many back-to-back games their team plays. Why is that? Namely because they’re usually the most difficult tasks on the schedule given the tired legs from the night before.

It’s a bit more fair when the team you’re playing is also on the second half of a back-to-back contest but that doesn’t happen too often. That’s part of the reason Carmelo Anthony of the New York Knicks wants to see a reduction in the back-to-back games in the future.

“I don’t know if that will ever happen, but that’s the dream,” Anthony said. “Maybe it will happen 10 years from now when I’m out of the league.

“You go on a road trip and you come back, and you’re gone for 10, 11 days 12 days, and you’ve got a back-to-back the last two days, it’s always that last game that someway, somehow we always seem to get a TV game that last game. So it affects you,” he said.

Teams often struggle in the second game of the back-to-back set and tend to fade late in the game.

Some many not find issue with the back-to-back scenario if every game was to play the set amount however that’s not the case and doesn’t appear to be in the plans at any point either. Simply put, unless the NBA plans to reduce their 82-game schedule or make an already long season even longer, it doesn’t look like back-to-back games will be removed or reduced very soon.

Of course, that seems to be a sentiment Carmelo Anthony already understands so while he’d like to see it, he appears aware it’s nothing more than a pipe dream currently.

Melo and his Knicks will play in 20 back-to-back contests this year.

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