They'll have a season this season

I cannot wait for the regular season to start, I don’t need to know what’s in the stew, I already know it’s going to be overcooked yet somehow tastier than anything I’ve ever had. Probably all those naturally occurring sugars.

The NBA season is too compressed and too long and players sit out too much and the midseason tournament will do nothing to change this, if anything, it will exacerbate winter’s midseason malaise and drain legs ahead of the real playoffs. While Twitter crows over a contest between the 4-7 Dolphins and 5-6 Jets tripling the NBA’s November tournament in the ratings.

NBA schedule releases are more important than baseball’s version yet twelve-kabillion percent less essential than the NFL’s release. Big NBA matchups are fun but we have no assurances superstars will show for these parings, not with the season growing longer and the game (where basically everyone makes 36 percent of their threes) becoming more difficult to play with the birth of every new jump-shooter.

But I’m only complaining because the internet is on. This will be my 24th NBA season with League Pass, it is the greatest thing ever and I love it. The midseason tournament solves nothing but the NBA knows I need cash just before Christmas, the league wants to drag one last solid score across the bar and under my nose.

According to Matt Moore, fewer teams will have double-digit rest disadvantage contests, great news. I hope the stars are available for the games my readers attend in 2023-24, and similarly hope we lend them support as they save legs for the postseason. The Clippers have the most instances of three games in four nights, which pleases me, L.A.’s uniforms are terrible and the team’s mood offends me.

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