NBA will consider shortening games due to millennial attention spans

WFAA ^ | January 14, 2017 | AJ Neuharth-Keusch

[SkyDancer]

Five minute quarters. Wait, five minutes would be a quarter? Okay, four five minute sessions.

[Eddie01]

...and broadcast directly from State prisons across the country.

Less paperwork.

[KSCITYBOY]

YUP

[Cvengr]

Shorten the height of the basket so Millennials can play without suffering a height challenged microaggression.

[Sgt_Schultze]

The rims should be raise to 11 feet. Put some skilled shooting back on the floor where it belongs.

[bigbob]

Basketball is so boring anyway they should just cut the first three quarters and skip right to the 4th quarter where the win/loss is decided.

[meyer]

I kind of lost interest in Basketball when the seemingly changed the rules to let Jordan bowl over other players and travel at will.

[PAR35]

Just raise the basket a couple of feet so they’ll have to shoot rather than just drop it in. Might shrink it a couple of inches, as well.

Skill would go up, and scoring might go down, so that each basket might be meaningful.

Oh, and start calling fouls more aggressively, even on the superstars.

[Vermont Lt]

They generally only try in the last two or three minutes.

[Telepathic Intruder]

I’ve only seen Game of Thrones on YouTube, but in individual bits that you have to put together like a jigsaw puzzle. There was some dwarf tossing in Lord of the Rings, but not with real dwarfs. Or dwarves, rather.

[Vermont Lt]

I used to photograph college sports. Basketball was fun, and boring. One day I came up with the idea that if found in the last minute of play, the fouled team would get thirty seconds to take as many shots as they could from the free throw line.

That would speed things up—no more stupid fouls when they are down by ten points.

[pa_dweller]

So, 2015 average people studied Microsoft in the wild for a span of eight seconds, which revealed that the world of goldfish, technology, and social media is all about attention.?

Sounds about right.

[sharkhawk]

I must be a millennial at 52. Cause I hate the whole 20 minute long last minute.

[The Antiyuppie]

“NBA games should be 15 minutes... This will give the players more time at the strip clubs.”

Maybe, but still only the last five minutes will matter.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Hope they shorten players’ paychecks too.

[sphinx]

If they shorten the game, they’ll have more time for commercials.

[Old Yeller]

How about midget NBA? Now THAT I would watch.

[xzins]

Only if Gimli and Tyrion can play