It’s not the minutes, it’s not the amount of games, it’s the lazy, entitled, whiny players that sit games out, flop, and jack up threes. People are screaming out these reasons and the NBA is looking for literally any other explanation aside from fixing the actual problem.
90's NBA thrived on TV ratings and had to compete with: MLB Homerun race (Sosa, McGwire, Bonds) NFL Football WWE Attitude Era (Raw vs Nitro) Many great TV Sitcoms, and TV shows NHL Rivalries (Red Wings vs Avalanche was lit) Adam Silver act like now is only time the NBA had competition on TV
Exactly. Sports in the 90s was HEAVY across practically everything. Wrestling in the 90s, especially the mid-to-late 90s with the Monday Night Wars waa HUGE. Plus MLB, NHL, MLB were extremely popular. Then Tiger exploded in golf as well as the Williams Sister breaking the scene. I even remember figure skating making sports shows like ESPN routinely. This doesn't even consider prime time shows such as Friends, The Cosby's, Martin, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, 90210, ER, Seinfield, and more...
I think the NBA is realizing that they’ve been carried by all time great, legendary players since Jordan (Kobe, Duncan, Lebron, Durant, Curry) and without a player who is a top 10-15 player at their peak, most fans don’t care to watch.
The best way.. For the playoffs give the teams from each conference with the best record a first-round bye!! That would give top teams something to shoot for every year!
@@Ace-v6rwell he’s not wrong…wrestling was huge in the mid to late 90s. Undertaker, Kane, Mankind, Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, Jericho, Goldberg, Bret Hart, etc…if you grew up in the 90s…you knew all these guys and they were very culturally relevant. 90s were basically peak Americana worldwide…a lot of stuff started to go downhill after the turn of the millennia.
Ben Simmons and Zion Williamson would love 10 minute quarters. LeBum James will definitely love it because he knows no one will never catch his scoring record
Why would LeBron want this? He had to grind 48 minute games for 22 years. Now at the end, I doubt he cares about the new guys getting it easy. Use elementary school level logic before saying rubbish. … This is a stupid idea and it is typical Silver Nosferatu. Tradition matters. Records matter. History matters. If you throw the history books and the pursuit of historical milestones out the window, you will essentially kill off all of your die hard fans. The casual fan era will be all they have left.
Remove the sideline 3, reinstate hand checking. Get rid of the gather. Call travel and carry. If player sits it needs to be on the injury report or excused and it has to be 4 games minimum.
I suggest reducing the money. I know the teams make too much but I would propose that the teams spend money on the community they serve and reduce the contracts the player's get. They get too much money and I believe they don't care if they win or lose as much as they did before. Is that too crazy of an idea?
The NBA Owners Who Silver Works For!! at their next ownership meeting,,, just needs to fire Silver and The Whole NBA Commissioner's Office.. and put a total stop to the player management.
Well if refs didn't control the game with all the ticky tack fouls, reviews/challenges on a calls, TV Timeouts and making the last 3 minutes of the 4th Quarter last 20 minutes...maybe the games will be under 2 hours
What did PG accomplish as far as teamwise with the Pacers? No nba championships, no conference championships.. these stupid participation awards are lame af...
The thing that Adam Silver, don’t understand is the NBA post to set the standard. The NBA is at the top of the mountain who cares what these other leagues are doing
@@BearArms2025 and yet the NBA is clearing less revenue annually than the NFL it’s not king and now the NFL going global what you think what’s gonna happen to the NBA when everyone oversees embraces Football like they’re starting too?
@rel8edgamerz445 the NBA has never been the #1 sport for American fans. The NFL took the top spot from MLB. Basketball was #3 when baseball was king. Football jumped baseball and then Basketball jumped baseball. Football will always be #1, Basketball better do something or baseball might just become #2 sooner than the NBA think.
Put 90s rules back in with the exception of illegal defense. This means allowing more physicality, more trash talking, lowering amounts of three point shots the whole enchilada. Limit load management to 3 games a season.
i think i get where silver is going with this the dudes are basically too soft to go 80- 82 games now so they may as well just play 40 gms like the ladies AND adopt the ladies 10 minutes/quarter then it will be easier to just let the wnba and nba MERGE; he may be trying to gradually work toward a merger situation (might as well 🤷♂) that way the dudes can stop crying about playing too many games and the ladies can stop crying about not making the same money the men make
NBA is unbearably watchable the last decade and every year the product is getting worse. NBA for watching highlights, Euroleague for watching basketball 🏀🏀🏀.
As someone who never attends games and only watches on television….I have no desire to see a shorter game…what I want to see is a COMPETITIVE game being played with SOUND FUNDAMENTALS. And I also would enjoy less game stoppages with stupid ticky tac dumbass fouls every 5 seconds because a defender grazed someone’s elbow or forearm. What we’re watching most nights is god awful.
F Paul George What have you done for the pacers? What have you done for the clippers? On top of him bitching about being an All Star Paul George needs to retire!
Hey Adam…here’s the first thing you should do…stop worrying so much about playing “global basketball” and focus instead on AMERICAN BASKETBALL. Why is this league always following trends instead of setting them?
Can u imagine how unwatchable the nba would be if we agreed to all their bullshit? (I know its already getting bad from what is already allowed). Probably no back to backs, all super teams, would only play like 20 games, no coaching, oh i was out at the club last night i cant play today but still pay me 100m.
Adam silver is in bed with LeBron and that’s why ratings are down because everything is so slanted toward the players now that superstars are taking weeks off and quitting on their team
What the NBA needs to do, is reinstate defense. Back in the early 70s rules for playing defense. Erase the 3-point shot. Good shooters from deep are still relevant, just make a 30-footer equal to a drive to the basket. Force players to have O and D skills or go home.
Please somebody with some sense please take over the leadership of the NBA because that cream puff Adam silver is gonna drive this game into the abyss and there's not gonna be able to come back from! HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The only thing that needs to be shortened is Adam Silver's tenure as NBA commish.
This just tells me Adam Silver is an out of touch idiot if he thinks long games are the problem right now
Tickets better be 16.67% less.
@maddie690ify Oh don’t worry. Tickets will be 16.67% less at first, but ticket prices will continue to go up.
came here to say the exact same damn thing
@@Doatello1991they will raise prices after this happens
@@baldeagle4710 There’s no way this change goes through. If it does, I don’t know anything anymore.
Amen.
Let make it easy...just flip a coin to see which team win
It’s not the minutes, it’s not the amount of games, it’s the lazy, entitled, whiny players that sit games out, flop, and jack up threes. People are screaming out these reasons and the NBA is looking for literally any other explanation aside from fixing the actual problem.
Word
Preach.
90's NBA thrived on TV ratings and had to compete with:
MLB Homerun race (Sosa, McGwire, Bonds)
NFL Football
WWE Attitude Era (Raw vs Nitro)
Many great TV Sitcoms, and TV shows
NHL Rivalries (Red Wings vs Avalanche was lit)
Adam Silver act like now is only time the NBA had competition on TV
Exactly. Sports in the 90s was HEAVY across practically everything.
Wrestling in the 90s, especially the mid-to-late 90s with the Monday Night Wars waa HUGE. Plus MLB, NHL, MLB were extremely popular. Then Tiger exploded in golf as well as the Williams Sister breaking the scene. I even remember figure skating making sports shows like ESPN routinely. This doesn't even consider prime time shows such as Friends, The Cosby's, Martin, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, 90210, ER, Seinfield, and more...
I think the NBA is realizing that they’ve been carried by all time great, legendary players since Jordan (Kobe, Duncan, Lebron, Durant, Curry) and without a player who is a top 10-15 player at their peak, most fans don’t care to watch.
This fewl brought up WWE to support his argument.
The best way.. For the playoffs give the teams from each conference with the best record a first-round bye!! That would give top teams something to shoot for every year!
@@Ace-v6rwell he’s not wrong…wrestling was huge in the mid to late 90s. Undertaker, Kane, Mankind, Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, Jericho, Goldberg, Bret Hart, etc…if you grew up in the 90s…you knew all these guys and they were very culturally relevant. 90s were basically peak Americana worldwide…a lot of stuff started to go downhill after the turn of the millennia.
Adam silver needs to step down 😂.
He also wants to reduce the season to 60 games
Maybe they just need a new. Commissioner. This dude is a clown.
Ben Simmons and Zion Williamson would love 10 minute quarters. LeBum James will definitely love it because he knows no one will never catch his scoring record
Silver must be getting advice from LeBum
I hope Lebron isn't playing much longer, 2 or 3 years at most.
All he does is complain.
Oh you better believe it 😆
@@Kromatthe should retire now. Lakers are dog water, they aren’t winning anything. Hes playing for no reason other than to juice his longevity stats.
Why would LeBron want this?
He had to grind 48 minute games for 22 years.
Now at the end, I doubt he cares about the new guys getting it easy.
Use elementary school level logic before saying rubbish.
…
This is a stupid idea and it is typical Silver Nosferatu. Tradition matters. Records matter. History matters.
If you throw the history books and the pursuit of historical milestones out the window, you will essentially kill off all of your die hard fans.
The casual fan era will be all they have left.
The NBA would have to remove every record they have, if Silver gets his way..
Remove the sideline 3, reinstate hand checking. Get rid of the gather. Call travel and carry. If player sits it needs to be on the injury report or excused and it has to be 4 games minimum.
I suggest reducing the money. I know the teams make too much but I would propose that the teams spend money on the community they serve and reduce the contracts the player's get. They get too much money and I believe they don't care if they win or lose as much as they did before. Is that too crazy of an idea?
@@dnlp89Nope, they play as if if they don’t care. Add that to my suggestion and you can revive the competitiveness.
Why not eliminate he game altogether. They could play rap music have dancers twerking while they dunk and shot threes in a chaotic disorganized mess.
@@essencetaiji1745 isn't that what we have already?
You mean like the All-Star Game?
@essencetaiji1745 college basketball is SOOOO much of a better product to watch. Heĺl, the W was more fun to watch than the league.
@@essencetaiji1745 that pretty much sums it up well done 😂
Would you be happier if it was country music instead 🤷🏼♂️
Adam Silver you meddling too much, calling yourself fixing the game that was never broken. Put the game back to where it was and leave it alone!!
Oh he’s fixing it alright. Vegas will confirm
This literally Sickens me.
Next, he'll just change the entire game into a 30 minute game of HORSE... 😂
The NBA Owners Who Silver Works For!! at their next ownership meeting,,, just needs to fire Silver and The Whole NBA Commissioner's Office.. and put a total stop to the player management.
Adam Silver is a Cancer on the NBA I don't watch anymore!
Yes the NBA is a joke…. I don’t watch it either 😂
He needs to go
💯
This means they will just shoot more 3's. This aint it Adam. Baseball it made since for television but Baseball is so much fun IN PERSON.
Well if refs didn't control the game with all the ticky tack fouls, reviews/challenges on a calls, TV Timeouts and making the last 3 minutes of the 4th Quarter last 20 minutes...maybe the games will be under 2 hours
How about you make pkaying back to backs mandatory? These guys never play back to backs anymore.
Embiid is laughing somewhere
yall wanna change everything about basketball . leave it just the way it is
Who the Hell is asking for this?! The only way to save the NBA is roll back the rules to the 90's and/or clone MJ.
Basketball is a dying sport and the NBA is a dying league. If the players DGAF, then neither should you.
I agree
Less games 75 preferred. Get rid of conferences make it a 1 vs 16 playoff format. And continue the play in for the last slots
Silver is doing everything but letting them play defense and compete. Gimmick Commish.
Adam Silver is a joke! At this point he is just LeBron’s Assistant 😂😂🥴
This is a LeBron James idea. Doesnt want anyone ever touching his longevity records
What did PG accomplish as far as teamwise with the Pacers? No nba championships, no conference championships.. these stupid participation awards are lame af...
Even if its only 15 games players will still find ways to load manage. Dumb commish
How bout we let the team mascots play for five minutes a game. Whatever they score is worth double.
The thing that Adam Silver, don’t understand is the NBA post to set the standard. The NBA is at the top of the mountain who cares what these other leagues are doing
What the fans do
The ratings and the revenue supports the NFL as top dog
@ in the United States but Globally outside of Soccer NBA is King
@@BearArms2025 and yet the NBA is clearing less revenue annually than the NFL it’s not king and now the NFL going global what you think what’s gonna happen to the NBA when everyone oversees embraces Football like they’re starting too?
@rel8edgamerz445 the NBA has never been the #1 sport for American fans. The NFL took the top spot from MLB. Basketball was #3 when baseball was king. Football jumped baseball and then Basketball jumped baseball. Football will always be #1, Basketball better do something or baseball might just become #2 sooner than the NBA think.
He trying everything atp 😭
My 5 year old nephew plays 40 minutes a game. Sometimes, it's literally back to back 2 games in a row.
Put 90s rules back in with the exception of illegal defense. This means allowing more physicality, more trash talking, lowering amounts of three point shots the whole enchilada.
Limit load management to 3 games a season.
i think i get where silver is going with this
the dudes are basically too soft to go 80- 82 games now
so they may as well just play 40 gms like the ladies AND adopt the ladies 10 minutes/quarter
then it will be easier to just let the wnba and nba MERGE; he may be trying to gradually work toward a merger situation (might as well 🤷♂)
that way the dudes can stop crying about playing too many games and the ladies can stop crying about not making the same money the men make
Damn he wants them to play less then they already do
Shorten the games? Ffs! They only play 48mins! With 7 2min time outs. Seriously, who gave this idiot the job of ruining the nba?
1. Limit load management for 3 games a season
2. Technical foull plus possession against the floppers, ejection follows on the 2nd offense
Kawhi says no
somebody tell adam "the worst sports commissioner in recent memory" silver, in this country we go by the IMPERIAL SYSTEM not the METRIC SYSTEM
Adam silver has done irreversible damage to the game of basketball. Now he wants to kill it altogether
might as well have 2 Intermissions 🤦🏻♂️
Dude wants a tribute video, but demanded a trade. So sick of PG.
Fewer commercials. Problem solved. Right commissioner?
10 minute quarters LOL. what a joke. The tickets better costs less and the players play every game.
NBA is unbearably watchable the last decade and every year the product is getting worse. NBA for watching highlights, Euroleague for watching basketball 🏀🏀🏀.
I agree
How about allowing 3 pointers only in the first half? Second half only allow 2 pointers.
Maybe allow a certain number of 3 point attempts. So they aren’t just chucking 3’s it will be more strategic. 🤓
This man couldn't fill David Stern's shoes Adam Silver should be fired from the NBA
Why not make games 2 minutes so players don’t get so tired ?
We thought he learned a lot from David Stern but he didn’t!
As someone who never attends games and only watches on television….I have no desire to see a shorter game…what I want to see is a COMPETITIVE game being played with SOUND FUNDAMENTALS. And I also would enjoy less game stoppages with stupid ticky tac dumbass fouls every 5 seconds because a defender grazed someone’s elbow or forearm. What we’re watching most nights is god awful.
They’re gonna have 100 20 minute games
F Paul George
What have you done for the pacers?
What have you done for the clippers?
On top of him bitching about being an All Star
Paul George needs to retire!
The players will still sit out.
Adam Silver needs to be fired or resign effective immediately!
Can we get commissioner Pat Riley pls.
Hey Adam…here’s the first thing you should do…stop worrying so much about playing “global basketball” and focus instead on AMERICAN BASKETBALL. Why is this league always following trends instead of setting them?
Can u imagine how unwatchable the nba would be if we agreed to all their bullshit? (I know its already getting bad from what is already allowed). Probably no back to backs, all super teams, would only play like 20 games, no coaching, oh i was out at the club last night i cant play today but still pay me 100m.
Adam silver is in bed with LeBron and that’s why ratings are down because everything is so slanted toward the players now that superstars are taking weeks off and quitting on their team
Rule changes are utterly useless if you keep on bending over for LeBron.
What the NBA needs to do, is reinstate defense. Back in the early 70s rules for playing defense.
Erase the 3-point shot. Good shooters from deep are still relevant, just make a 30-footer equal to a drive to the basket.
Force players to have O and D skills or go home.
Keep the 3. Allow hand checking and hard fouls.
@@user-vi5vd3ty9d move the 3 out 3 to 5 feet.
@@user-vi5vd3ty9dBruh hand check been removed since 1979. Let it go
nosferatu needs to resign from the nba
Shortening the game may help with load management.
what a clown
Please somebody with some sense please take over the leadership of the NBA because that cream puff Adam silver is gonna drive this game into the abyss and there's not gonna be able to come back from! HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lets face it. Basketball is a boring sport until the last 5 mins.
Exactly
SMDH...
Get rid of back-to-backs, decrease the regular season to 72 games, and limit load management.
NOPE PLAY 82 GAMES
Make playing back to backs mandatory.
Get rid of the entitled fans. Start there first
That spoiled brat LeBron is the main culprit in destroying the NBA!