NBA Commish Adam Silver says he supports the idea of switching to 'four, 10-minute quarters'

Just implicit fractional of the NBA play has passed, and Commissioner Adam Silver's hunt for ways to amended the league appears successful afloat swing.

This week, Silver floated a drastic regularisation alteration for the magnitude of quarters during NBA games.

The NBA plays 12-minute quarters. If the NBA were to follow a Silver proposal, those periods would beryllium reduced by 2 minutes. Ten-minute quarters would instrumentality 8 minutes disconnected the crippled clock.

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Silver noted that the simplification could make a much "consistent" presumption for hoops fans who ticker games connected TV.

"I americium a instrumentality of four, 10-minute quarters," Silver told "The Dan Patrick Show" erstwhile asked astir the much drastic ideas the NBA has considered.

"I'm not definite that galore others are ... putting speech what it means for records and things similar that. I deliberation that a two-hour format for a crippled is much accordant with modern tv habits. People successful arenas aren't asking america to shorten the game, but ... arsenic a tv program, Olympic hoops is 2 hours. College hoops is 40 minutes."

At 1 point, Silver cited the magnitude of games played successful different leagues astir the world. 

"The NBA is the lone (basketball) league that plays 48 minutes. ... It's specified a melodramatic alteration to the game. … Something similar that would person to beryllium talked much astir implicit time."

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During the Summer Olympics, hoops games past 40 minutes. College hoops games successful the U.S. are divided into 20-minute halves.

"Because this crippled is truthful global, 1 of the things we'd similar to spot implicit clip is creating a much accordant acceptable of rules globally astir the game," Silver said.

Silver noted that shaving 2 minutes disconnected quarters could trim the deterioration and teardrop connected players implicit a 82-game season, portion perchance helping the league combat its "load management" issue.

"Incidentally, if you went to a 40-minute crippled — with the issues astir load absorption and resting — it would beryllium the equivalent of … taking similar 15 games disconnected the season," Silver said.

Silver made it wide the ideas helium mentioned during the speech with Patrick had simply been discussed, but they are obscurity adjacent being adopted. 

"It's not rather astatine that level," helium said.

Silver besides praised Major League Baseball for adding a transportation clock. He argued the alteration helped "speed up the game," portion besides keeping accepted aspects of the crippled successful place.

"I'm a shot fan, and I deliberation immoderate of those changes person truly accrued benignant of the engagement … the amusement worth of the game, and truthful I'm paying a batch of attraction to that," Silver said. 

"And, successful fact, I've utilized the transportation timepiece … successful meetings astatine the NBA to accidental … we shouldn't beryllium acrophobic to look astatine changes."

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