![]() Major NBA Schedule Changes Will Hopefully Mean Fewer Stars Resting In National Games. The NBA is rolling right now, having become a true year- round obsession like nothing save football, and reaching new heights of popularity. If you’re getting on mymom’s radar in the middle of the offseason, you’re doing something right.)But if there’s one problem, besides a lack of parity (and given that the NBA is a national sport in the sense that it appeal goes beyond one’s local team, I’m not sure that’s a major hurdle), it’s that the league can’t always get its biggest players in front of the biggest audience. The last few years, star players have been increasingly rested for nationally broadcast games, usually when they’re part of of back- to- backs. This has become a whole thing. In the span of one week last March, the Warriors played without Steph Curry, Draymond Green, and Klay Thompson, and then the Cavaliers rested Le. Bron James, Kevin Love, and Kyrie Irving, both for games aired on ABC. The league doesn’t like this, and TV partners sure as hell don’t like this, not when they’re paying $2. But you can’t prevent a coach from sitting his best players, not in the middle of a long season and not when there’s another game the very next day. There’s reason to believe things are going to get better. The 2. 01. 7- 1. 8 NBA schedule will be released this month, and in a memo sent to teams (and obtained by ESPN), the league has highlighted some major changes designed to provide more rest for players, and presumably make sure the best players don’t need days off when ESPN and TNT have the games. Among the changes: Eliminating stretches of four games in five days and 1. Reduction of five games in seven nights to just 4. Reduction in number of back- to- backs to 1. In all, 4. 0 back- to- backs have been eliminated from last season. Reduction of single- game road trips by 1. Reduction in single- game road trips over 2,0. This seems like it can only be a good thing. But the only way to make that happen would be to shorten the season, and I’d be all for that—5. February through April is a pretty joyless slog as things are. But it won’t happen. The owners don’t want it (money), and the players don’t want it (also money).
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