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http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/244575/NBA-Wants-To-Speed-Up-End-Of-Games
Adam Silver says the NBA would like to speed up the end of games, with a focus on retaining younger fans who "have increasingly short attention spans."
"It's something that I know all of sports are looking at right now, and that is the format of the game and the length of time it takes to play the game," Silver said. "Obviously people, particularly millennials, have increasingly short attention spans, so it's something as a business we need to pay attention to."
The final 24 seconds of last week's game between the Rockets and Thunder took nearly nine minutes to finish.
"When the last few minutes of the game take an extraordinary amount of time, sometimes it's incredibly interesting for fans, other times it's not," Silver said. "The short answer to your question is we are going to take a fresh look at the format, specifically in the last two minutes."
Silver said the NBA's competition committee reviews such matters and takes them to the league's full board of owners.
"It's something that we track very closely," Silver said. "In the league office we time out every game, we know exactly how much time each possession takes and, again, we can also look at minute-by-minute ratings, so we know at what point fans are potentially tuning out as well."
Adam Silver says the NBA would like to speed up the end of games, with a focus on retaining younger fans who "have increasingly short attention spans."
"It's something that I know all of sports are looking at right now, and that is the format of the game and the length of time it takes to play the game," Silver said. "Obviously people, particularly millennials, have increasingly short attention spans, so it's something as a business we need to pay attention to."
The final 24 seconds of last week's game between the Rockets and Thunder took nearly nine minutes to finish.
"When the last few minutes of the game take an extraordinary amount of time, sometimes it's incredibly interesting for fans, other times it's not," Silver said. "The short answer to your question is we are going to take a fresh look at the format, specifically in the last two minutes."
Silver said the NBA's competition committee reviews such matters and takes them to the league's full board of owners.
"It's something that we track very closely," Silver said. "In the league office we time out every game, we know exactly how much time each possession takes and, again, we can also look at minute-by-minute ratings, so we know at what point fans are potentially tuning out as well."
