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January 30, 2025 • 10 mins
Turning to the NBA for a moment, the Rockets have turned things around drastically in their two year span under Coach Ime Udoka's tenure as head coach. Trailing behind the Oklahoma City Thunder who leads the Western Conference, the Rockets are second in the West with a standing of thirty-two wins followed with only fourteen losses thus far. With viewership and ratings becoming a huge topic around the league, recently just yesterday NBA's Commissioner Adam Silver tossed around the idea of tampering with the total number of minutes played in the league's games. Aiming to raise ratings and views the commissioner suggest two minutes cut at the end of every quarter therefore, instead of playing twelve minute quarters with a total of forty-eight minutes of playing time players would play ten-minute quarters with a total of only forty minutes. Sean and Brian take a moment along with listeners in discussion of is it really needed to cut the game's minutes or does this appear to be another gimmick by the NBA?
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
All right, Sean, what are you hearing out there now?
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Time for the stakeout here on the Seawan Salisbury Show.
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candidates today for their open OC position. The Houston Cougars
beat West Virginia last night in Big Twelve Conference play.
All right, we've been talking a lot of basketball this morning,

(00:33):
talking about these Rockets, the Cougars, Should they make a trade,
so forth and so on. Well, Adam Silver, NBA commissioner,
They're always trying to tweak something, always, you know, adding
another gimmick to the All Star Game, adding a gimmick
to the dunk contest, which is lackluster to say the least.

(00:54):
He's always trying to do something. Well, Sean, listen to
this audio. My goodness, this is what he wants to
do with the time of games.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
And I'm probably in a minority. As we get more
involved in global basketball. The NBA is the only league
that plays forty eight minutes, and I would be I
am a fan of four ten minute quarters. I'm not
sure that many others are. I mean, putting inside what
it means for records and things like that, I think

(01:27):
that a two hour format for a game is more
consistent sort of modern television habits. I don't think people
in arenas aren't asking us to shorten the game, but
I think as a television program being two hours, that's
Olympic basketball. It's being is two hours, you know, college
basketball courses.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
But why you like it? I'd say it has kind
of a little bit of a push there.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Yeah, but it's such a dramatic change to the game.
I mean, I think something like that would have to
be talking more about.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
That's Adamsilver. He was on with Dan Patrick.

Speaker 4 (01:59):
Yeah. See here's where I disagree with him. It's not
the forty eight minutes. It's the It's the play on
the court. They can do the same thing they do
in twelve minutes a quarter as they do in ten
minutes that they'll do in ten minutes a quarter. It's
the way that it's the product. It's not how skilled
the players are. We get skilled players but if the
product says shoot three pointers, play no defense, and dunk,

(02:22):
that's what you're gonna do. You're You're a product of
your environment. Right, it's the product and the way you
do it. I don't know, speed up the shot clock
if you want to do something. I'm not for raising
the rim to eleven feet because people like and if
you want more offense, that ain't the thing to do. Plus,
now all the record books in the history of mankind
in the NBA will have an asterisk by him because
of the disrupting of the time.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (02:44):
So for me, it's the product, and there's there's other
ways to go about it. And see, the NBA is
its own worst enemy. They created the problem with all this.
They created the problem. They got away from what sports
is really supposed to be about. Ditive, good product on
the court on the field, whether it's football, baseball, basketball

(03:05):
in the court, and.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
They want everybody involved. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (03:10):
You want better brand of basketball and your All Star
games embarrassing so that the All Star Game at one point,
you know, used to be competitive. Yes, and that's not
the reason people watch. But yes, so if people's attention
spans two minutes. What is going from forty eight to
forty gonna have to do with it? And you know
why it is? He says, Well, you know the arenas aren't.
But I'll bet your TV networks are pressing it because

(03:33):
right now, if the brand isn't as good as you
want it, and there's these many talented players and it's
suffering for whatever needs a facelift is the facelift of
are you going to tune into a game to watch
forty minutes intead of forty eight? I'm actually gonna complain
more because now the two minutes left on that last
shot to make a run with three minutes to go
is different. Why don't we just have eight minute running
clocks like we do at the boys Club? Yeah, exactly,

(03:54):
the YMCA s I see. I just I don't think
that that's the answer.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
I just don't.

Speaker 4 (03:59):
I don't think people aren't watching basketball because it takes
too long. When's the last time you saw a three
hour basketball game? Not very often, don't You don't? So
you get it to I mean, so that's extra two
minutes a quarter. That ain't the reason they're not watching.
It's all the other stuff. I have yet to hear
one person complain about maybe there is, but the natural

(04:24):
where it's like, yeah, man, we got to get to
ten minutes.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Twelve minutes is too long. To me, it's a reach.
It is I'll tell you what.

Speaker 4 (04:33):
And I know they're not going to do it, but
wouldn't you like to see, like we've talked about for
a year, how these guys would react without a three
point line.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
You want to change the game and make it a
better product.

Speaker 4 (04:45):
Won't they have to play better basketball? Team basketball? There's
no three point line. I know it's not as excited three,
but the truth is if they if you got the
three and all these guys are hoisting up and it's
not moving the needle in your NBA telecash when you're
the pregame show with Barkley and the groups is the
most important thing we do watch in the NBA. If
that's the way, then add that they're watching for the

(05:06):
pregame show once the game starts there turning away. That's
not the way it's supposed to be. But it's the way.
I mean, it's it's not me. I'm just telling it's
just the way the rate it's in the numbers, the
metrics will tell you that. Yeah, I for one, I'm
twelve to ten and silver.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
If he wants it, if he wants it done, it'll
get done.

Speaker 4 (05:24):
I don't think it serves it serves the purpose of
what they're trying to more viewers and more attention to it.
It's the product on the court, not the talent. The product.
Then there is a difference and the way you're playing it.
There's other ways to make basketball more interesting. And guess
what it isn't going from twelve to ten minutes. I've
never complained about that this game last. Now, I'll tell

(05:46):
you what's irritating. When there's foul after foul after foul
after foul, just like there's penalty and one after the other.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
That lengthens it.

Speaker 4 (05:53):
But twelve minutes to ten minutes doesn't do anything for
me when it comes to enhancing my ability to want
to watch.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
That's eight minutes.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
Do you know the first year the NBA went into
forty eight minute games with twelve minute quarters? When was
it seventy nine years ago? Nineteen forty six? Why in
the hell are we tweaking with it, messing with it,
even even just talking about it, floating the idea.

Speaker 4 (06:21):
When bird and Magic and Jordan and Kobe and that
group played nobody ever complained about. As a matter of fact,
you wanted a forty eight minute game. There was times
you begged for more minutes because you said, these guys
are a blast.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
What it's the product you're putting on it?

Speaker 4 (06:33):
No, pretty you know that's I'm not putting in a
blanket statement over every team or every coach, but even
guys that are coaching their teams don't like the way
basketball is being played. Right, Twelve to ten ain't the answer.
I can get that at a high school game.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
Thanks.

Speaker 4 (06:47):
I just I can't remember the last time now I've
complained about another foul. Come on, let them play. I
can't remember the last time I said forty eight minutes
is too long in an NBA game?

Speaker 1 (06:56):
Right? Ever, I can say this, and are they going
to the rim at all? Is anybody gonna defend? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (07:03):
I mean, I mean, are you gonna Are we gonna
seriously flop? I mean, those are the things I'm talking about.
I've never once said, you know what, I'd like eight
or ten minute quarters? Twelve's too long? Yeah, you know what,
let's slice twenty the game.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
Talk about chasing a ghost. What are we doing?

Speaker 2 (07:21):
Why are we doing all these dumb ass gimmicks in
all the sports leagues, bigger bases in baseball, pitch clock now,
apparently they're trying to float the idea of starters must
go six innings.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
Okay, okay over.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
In the NFL, the kickoff rule, the overtime rule suck.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
I'm not go on and on now.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
In the NBA, you know what been going on for
seventy nine years, sean, seventy nine years, we've had take
two minutes from him? Yeah, seventy nine quarters. We've had
forty eight minute games. You know what, I want to
take it down eight minutes if I want forty minute.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
Games and no time have I ever complained to? What
have you even thought about it? What are we doing? Well?

Speaker 4 (07:56):
It's the NBA, not much unfortunately too, to enhance the
great talent that's on the court. And they said, dude,
there it used to be. And I love that I've
told you about. Yes, dude, I love that talking about yesterday.
But I can tell you this, I don't.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
I don't.

Speaker 4 (08:14):
It not has nothing to do with old head or
that dude watching the kid at Duke play right now? Yeah,
Cooper Flag. It's a treat watching these times. So watching
great players has always been a who doesn't want to
watch great players? Yeah, the athletes in this the athletes
and provost are stupid, stupid good. I just but the
way they play sometimes it's eye rolling. It is eye

(08:35):
rolling to me, and it's because of the environment that's
been created. This is what we want. And they think
that everybody just wants one hundred and thirty point game
all the time. Yeah, offense. You know there's some people
who've played that are thirty that don't want one hundred
and forty points, let alone an All Star game in
a regular NBA game. Yeah, in forty eight minutes. So

(08:56):
I just be barking up the wrong tree. To me,
if I'm the players Associate, I say absolutely not.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
I thought out of all three of the major commissioners
Roger Goodell, Bob Manfred and Adam Adam Silver during the
COVID times, I thought he did a really good job,
meaning Adam Silver, of not cal towing to the people
that were like, oh, if half your team gets COVID,
you got to cancel your games. He said, no, if

(09:22):
you got five or six guys, you're gonna play. We're
not gonna cancel games, We're gonna move games. I thought
he did a really good job with that.

Speaker 4 (09:27):
But on the other side of it, they shoved a
bunch of other political stuff down people's throat.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
And then we all watch sports.

Speaker 3 (09:32):
I do.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
I watch sports to get away from all that. I say,
enough of it on my TV.

Speaker 4 (09:35):
I watched football, basketball, baseball to watch great athletes play
sports and then coach it up. I don't watch for
you to for you to give me a sound message
on how I'm supposed to do something.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
Yeah, and then you then you add in that aspect
of it. Yeah, and then you mess with then you
bring in the play in tournament. Then I'm sorry, I
have to play in? Well, yeah, you have a play
in tournament. You have, Yes, you have a play in tournament.
Now you have the in season tournament, which is the
second week the season, and you've you've the All Star
Game sucks, the Dunk Contest sucks, and now you want

(10:05):
to take eight minutes off the game.

Speaker 4 (10:07):
What happened to and we got to go, But what
happened to? Just what happened to all these great players?
We just, I mean, nobody ever can when it was great,
just great basketball, well without the game. What happened to
these team with teams, here's when you qualify for the playoffs.
If you don't, I know they're guarding against resting them
and tanking. There's got to be another way to fix

(10:28):
tanking other than adding in season tournaments and giving the
players more money to force them to play harder. The
hell out of here, Adam Silver's got to be better
than this forty eight minute game to forty eight.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
Eight stupid, dumb ass ideal.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
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