Comments on: BBR Rankings: 2010-01-22 http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=4442 NBA & ABA Basketball Statistics & History Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:56:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6 By: P Middy http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=4442&cpage=1#comment-14162 Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:14:59 +0000 http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=4442#comment-14162 Yeah, football's (pro and college) biggest asset is how few games are played. Each one becomes really important. Even more so with the BCS system. If there were only 16 games a season, I wonder how many people would show up for each NBA game? Average attendance this year is almost 17K per game. Would it bump up to 80K per game?

]]> By: will http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=4442&cpage=1#comment-14156 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:48:01 +0000 http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=4442#comment-14156 Neil,

I'd rather not have to imagine that scenario. Your argument is why I like the current NBA playoff system (aside from maybe tweaking the first round from 7 back to 5 games, although that can open another can of worms).

]]> By: Neil Paine http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=4442&cpage=1#comment-14155 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:27:23 +0000 http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=4442#comment-14155 If this were college football, it would have been a much huger deal that #1 played #2 last night... Getting a 1-vs-2 matchup in the NBA is far less rare and nowhere near as important in the championship picture, since Cleveland/L.A. will have another chance to battle it out if they eventually make the Finals. But when #1 and #2 play during the CFB regular season, there's a pretty good chance the loser is permanently eliminated from title contention. Can you imagine if that were the case in the NBA?

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