ashep5 | 76ers

354 | 7 hours ago

The end of NBA games is a disgusting product for fans.

Headlesshorsman02 | Thunder

27 | 7 hours ago

Amen brother

Thfcaditya112 | Suns

45 | 7 hours ago

Ausar plays for the Pistons

LeonidasSpacemanMD

30 | 5 hours ago

Crazy watching the Olympics last summer and realizing basketball could flow like that

Cump_Lunger

4 | 7 hours ago

Not for gamblers. Which is exactly what Silver wants

ntpbr1

1 | 4 hours ago

Yeah and it sucks because usually end of the games should be the best like its in most sports. Pf course we occasionally have great endings, but this fcking sucks lol

PrinceJMoney089

188 | 7 hours ago

Only league on the planet where close games are disgusting to watch

Akipella | Warriors

65 | 7 hours ago

Close exciting game

We get to watch two great teams battle it out in the final 30 seconds of the “one score can win it” chaos…

As both teams take their respective turns at the FT line, trading epic 1 point shot for epic 1 point shot, and each team uses their ultimate exodia deck, the challenge, and it’s super exciting as we get an addition 3 minutes of suspense and more commercials for the call to 90% of the time just stay the same in such situations and then we go back to more FTs and stoppage times

Appropriate_Mixer | West

19 | 6 hours ago

Raptors v Lakers was a great close game with no free throws at the end

CrippledBanana | Canada

9 | 6 hours ago

It sucks too cause they can be phenomenal. The raptors lakers game was a banger and even though my team lost, it was a ton of fun to see it crawl down the clock. But most games just turn into these intentional fouls and it’s ridiculous

BreezyAndrew

101 | 7 hours ago

Absolutely fuckin ridiculous. The league really needs to do something about this at some point.

rocpilehardasfuk | Warriors

34 | 5 hours ago

There’s a simple fix. No live ball timeouts, just play basketball.

Dangerous-Daikon634

5 | 4 hours ago

do we think the ncaa 1-1 would help?

the_buff

3 | 4 hours ago

Get rid of the incentive to foul and the problem goes away.

BackshotsOnUrDaughtr

61 | 7 hours ago

but the pace of the game is so fast!

*just ignore all the delays, ad breaks, challenges, reviews etc

spellbreakerstudios

-5 | 7 hours ago

I mean, it is though. It’s still a faster game than any of the other sports.

kyh0mpb | Warriors

12 | 6 hours ago

Hockey exists

spellbreakerstudios

-4 | 6 hours ago

Sure is.. and the average NBA game is shorter than the average NHL game so..

dWaldizzle | 76ers

13 | 6 hours ago

Well yeah, hockey games have longer total minutes of play. The pace is still faster.

BigBlackSabbathFlag | 76ers

1 | 4 hours ago

In hockey, each team gets one timeout…..per game and it’s only 30 seconds long. In the NBA it feels like they’re unlimited. Last minute of a hockey game last at most 3 minutes in real time, a NBA game is almost an limited series on Netflix.

Also note that in the playoffs if the game goes to overtime, which happens probably 20% of the time, there are no commercial breaks during each overtime period.

Spare-Friendship-917

11 | 7 hours ago

Didn’t they do a study or something that said the average NFL game is only like 13 mins of action for a 2 ¹⁄₂ hour game

humphreyboggart | Timberwolves

2 | 3 hours ago

This stat has always bugged me when it’s used to knock football as a sport. Football is basically a turn-based strategy game turned into a sport. It would be like saying that in a chess game, they’re only actually moving pieces 1% of the time. It misses a huge part of what makes the game entertaining.

spellbreakerstudios

-4 | 7 hours ago

I don’t watch much football but that sure sounds right. I was at the raptors/blazers game the other night and it sure went quick. When time outs hit, you could see the clock counting down for the tv break etc. short half time.

I get that people get frustrated by these long endings. But they’re also not that common. The game is quite fast. If it comes down to a grindy end once in a while, gets just how the game can work.

Spare-Friendship-917

8 | 7 hours ago

My bigger gripe with the NBA is that they refuse to start the games on time.

Vhu

36 | 7 hours ago

Intentional fouls with less than 1 minute on the clock should give a free throw + possession. This shit is out of hand and ruins otherwise exciting games.

the_buff

12 | 4 hours ago

2 minutes, but yes, that’s the right idea. Remove all incentives to foul on both sides of the ball.

spinuch

2 | 4 hours ago

You trying to get Ben Simmons a contract?

Akipella | Warriors

3 | 3 hours ago

The amount of say, 7-10 point games that get stalled out by this despite the 99.8% chance of loss or whatever, is genuinely hurting the viewing experience so much. I understand from a coaching perspective you still don’t give up there, but I agree they need to make this less common honestly.

carelesssportsfan89 | Spurs

28 | 7 hours ago

the current nba product under silver is pathetic. it shouldn’t have to take 15 minutes to finish the last 34 seconds of a nba game

Obvious_Parsley3238

29 | 7 hours ago

Baseball mogs the absolute shit out of basketball when it comes to close game endings

DiscoBuiscuit

2 | 3 hours ago

Or literally any sport where there aren’t constant stoppages and timeouts

defene | Warriors

25 | 7 hours ago

If you don’t like that, you don’t like NBA basketball

PlanetCharisma | 76ers

14 | 7 hours ago

That was such a chore to watch. Albeit the actual ending sequence was exciting but what a joke leading up to it.

Fuzzy-Valuable-1774 | Celtics

11 | 7 hours ago

I hate the fact that the last minute has so many commercial breaks.

rawdfarva | Warriors

9 | 7 hours ago

vegas made the call

Apart-Volume9340 | Warriors

5 | 7 hours ago

And in that time Steve Kerr couldn’t draw up a simple play to get the ball inbounds

EtaiLife

4 | 7 hours ago

The NBA needs something revolutionary like the pitch clock for the MLB because this stuff makes end of games so awful to watch

TruckThunders00

1 | an hour ago

like a shot clock?

thy_armageddon | Knicks

5 | 7 hours ago

The last two minutes of an NBA game should basically be The Purge. That’s how we solve this.

fortmoney

4 | 7 hours ago

We need replay review for EVERY PLAY of EVERY GAME to make sure we “get it right”

Getting it right is overrated. It’s an entertainment program, not life and death. The sooner everyone realizes this the better the NBA/NFL/MLB products will be

VitricTyro | Warriors

5 | 7 hours ago

And they still managed to get the review wrong when Post got fouled.

SeismicRipFart | Trail Blazers

3 | 7 hours ago

You act like you’re surprised? That sounds pretty quick to me for an nba game

zebrainatux | Knicks

1 | 7 hours ago

Like watch a college game, their last minute takes what feels like an hour

Dangerous-Return-802 | San Diego Clippers

3 | 7 hours ago

And on top of that; all the calls were wrong or unnecessary. Who wants to watch this garbage?

UnderaZiaSun | Warriors

3 | 7 hours ago

I’ve always said the longest thing in the world is the final 20 seconds of an NBA game

OpportunityNext9675 | Minneapolis Lakers

3 | 7 hours ago

Elam ending for the love of God. Intentional fouls ruin basketball.

djspintersectional | Minneapolis Lakers

1 | 5 hours ago

I was looking for this comment. Yes please save us!!

Blind-Eye26 | Warriors

2 | 7 hours ago

The last 2 minutes of the NBA should be “No Holds Barred” /j

Akipella | Warriors

2 | 7 hours ago

It’s just gonna be like this every time now lol

ajteitel | Suns

1 | 7 hours ago

34 seconds can feel like 15 minutes in the right setting

StubbornSwampDonkey | 76ers

1 | 7 hours ago

Thanks Adam Silver!

CrippledBanana | Canada

1 | 6 hours ago

I just switch to another stream the moment intentional fouls start. Not worth watching at that point

aashim97 | Raptors

1 | 5 hours ago

Under 2 minutes: no timeouts, no subs, intentional fouls result in 1 shot and possession back, and max 1 challenge per side, you don’t get it back. No ad breaks.

Literally anything that can speed this shit up and make the end of game exciting as it should be. Baseball, hockey, soccer etc. are epic when close at the end.

I frankly don’t care if we mathematically eliminate some comeback possibilities via constant free throws, I would rather the really close games play out with some flow than this garbage.

AutographedSnorkel | Rockets

0 | 7 hours ago

Tnere is no sub that hates the subject of the sub more than r/nba

csin

1 | 6 hours ago

It’s because this sub has lax moderation. You try make complaint posts in other sports subs, you get your post removed.

MumrikDK

0 | 5 hours ago

Is it truly an American ball sport if it doesn’t end like that?

The last 34 seconds of the Warriors-76ers game took about 15 minutes to complete.