NBA Commissioner Adam Silver speaks to the media after the Board of Governors conferences on July 12, 2016 on the Encore Lodge in Las Vegas, Nevada
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver speaks to the media after the Board of Governors conferences on July 12, 2016 on the Encore Lodge in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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The proposed modifications to the Nationwide Basketball Affiliation’s 82-game regular-season schedule is receiving blended response, with some believing the league is not reducing sufficient video games.
In an interview with CNBC, Dr. Patrick Rishe, director of the sports activities enterprise program at Washington College in St. Louis, mentioned the NBA ought to transcend reducing to the proposed 78 video games, with the idea 68 contests may assist the NBA’s present scores and cargo administration points.
“One of many causes NFL scores are so excessive is due to their shortage,” Rishe mentioned. “Sure, you are going to need to make up income someplace, and it in all probability can be made up of upper media rights, greater ticket costs, excessive company partnership charges. However I consider the scores per sport can be greater, and it’ll enable you to justify greater rights charges; justify greater partnership charges as a result of there can be extra shortage.”
ESPN first reported the NBA floated the thought to scale back its common season to 78 video games, together with an in-season match, and presumably reseed the highest 4 groups remaining within the playoffs no matter convention, in response to experiences. That situation would additionally enable an East vs. West convention…