I always see people pushing for a Christmas start, or for shortening to season to 70 games, or any number of these kinds of changes, and I can never understand.
Why would people who love basketball be asking for less of it?
There are two major reasons I've been given for it.
1) Fewer games in the same span, or just a shorter season, gives more time for recover, which would lessen injury risks and also improve the calibre of play since players will be less tired.
2) There's just too much basketball! People like the Once a Week NFL schedule, so we should be closer to that.
The problem with 1) is that the calibre of play generally
isn't actually better after teams have had 3 or 4 days of rest between games, they actually usually look worse if anything. I concede it may potentially be better for injury risk, but then of course, 0 games at all would be better for injury risk so we have to find the balance. It's not like the NBA schedule is baseball with well over a hundred games.
2) Is just absurd to me; firstly, it only makes sense if you're coming from an America-centric background, where the NFL is standard, and also if the NFL is your standard for structure. Other sports play way more games than the NBA, and there's no reason that anyone should use the NFL as the standard model outside of it just being what you're used to. The second problem with it is that there isn't too much basketball
I constantly rewatch old games, watch college hoops, some FIBA, etc etc, cause there's always room for more.
Basically what I'm saying is leave the schedule alone.