NBA Info - April 2026

[Deleterious]

Ooops.  Meant to post this first.

 

[buddha]

The knicks - without kat - beat the bulls by 40.

the great josh giddey had more turnovers than made baskets.

[buddha]

why would anyone pay to watch this slop?

[Deleterious]

At least we have Pelicans-Kings to close the night.

[Deleterious]

 

[Deleterious]

Flagg with 51 tonight. He is the youngest player in league history to score 50.

[buddha]

10 hours ago, Deleterious said:

 

do steve kerr and the players want to take a pay cut to make up for that missed revenue?

[casimir]

The regular season might be too long.  I won't take part in that debate because of the timing of seasons vis a vis with baseball and me being a baseball fan over all other sports.

But I want to see how the players and player's association, and probably some owners, tries to apply the concept of shrinkflation to the regular season.  Because we all know damn well nobody wants to give up any part of revenue even if they reduce the regular season by a dozen or whatever games.  How is that going to go over with broadcasting and advertising and all of that revenue?

[Deleterious]

If a shorter season genuinely improves the quality of play, owners can probably recoup that lost revenue through higher ticket prices. Losing five home dates a year is not that dramatic, and a ten dollar average increase per ticket would likely cover the gap without much pushback from fans.

Local broadcasters like FanDuel would take a small hit with fewer games to air, but national broadcasters would barely notice the difference. Unlike the NFL, where cutting games also cuts weeks of programming, the NBA can fit a shortened season into the exact same calendar window, so national TV schedules stay intact. And if the on court product actually improves, better games drive higher ratings, and higher ratings let the league charge more for advertising, so that revenue stream could end up neutral or even increase.

The real question, though, is whether 72 games actually produces a meaningfully better product than 82, and that part is worth being skeptical about.