2019-20 Around the NBA: Archived

[SleepingHero]

What is the point of divisions these days anyway?
Just remove them, play every team in your conference 3 times and the other conf twice.
With the extra teams it would be a 77 game season.
Or rotate playing 5 teams in your conf 4 times a season to make it 82.

Its a vestige from when the winning your division actually mattered in the playoffs.

If they're gonna add more teams, every team would need to play each other, because of ticket sales. So I believe they'd do the 77 game season idea you proposed, or perhaps they'd even add more games to like 86, and spread out the season even longer to accommodate.

Just can't see the NBA giving up 82 games when fans more often than not fill the stadium for every game.