A funny thing happened last summer on the NBA’s way to schedule re-forum.
They started out with a 24-week model that had been in use for some forty years – and came away with a refurbished upgrade comprised of 168 playing dates.
Hold on … one hundred sixty-eight divided by seven equals twenty-four, right? So, isn’t it still a 24-week regular season?
Not exactly – you see, in prior years a team’s 82 games were fit into 24 calendar weeks (plus two days), 170 days total. Deduct the All-Star Break, a couple of holidays … those 82 games were being played in barely twice that many days.