On June 2, during his annual pre-finals press conference, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver brought up the topic of potentially shortening the length of the league’s current 82-game regular season.
“It’s something we have been talking a lot about the last few years,” Silver said. “I’m not against potentially changing the format of the season, possibly even shortening it a bit, if we can demonstrate that’s going to have a direct impact on injuries.”
Since then, every podcast and sports talk show imaginable has discussed the topic at length. And like many other league format issues, there is a generational divide.