{"id":35979,"date":"2022-06-04T03:27:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T03:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/richard-jefferson-says-shortening-nba-season-would-be-absurd\/"},"modified":"2022-06-04T03:27:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T03:27:13","slug":"richard-jefferson-says-shortening-nba-season-would-be-absurd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/richard-jefferson-says-shortening-nba-season-would-be-absurd\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Jefferson says shortening NBA season would be &#8216;absurd&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Richard Jefferson said the potential idea of \u200b\u200bthe NBA shortening its 82-game season makes &#8220;absolutely no sense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jefferson, a 17-year NBA vet who has transformed into an outspoken ESPN analyst after retirement, said that generally pro sports aren&#8217;t good on an athlete&#8217;s body.  He added that the NBA has taken protocols to mitigate fatigue for players, such as lengthening time of the All-Star break and limiting the amount of back-to-backs during the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s absurd,\u201d Jefferson said <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNNBA\/status\/1532813457547927552?s=20&amp;t=VEkIxq2ZFUb2kL-hnNeaVQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on NBA Today<\/a>.  \u201cThey have done every single thing\u2026 You want to shorten the season?  Like how much more do we have to make this coddling and all this stuff go with the players? &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>The idea for shortened seasons comes from backlash toward the NBA about players being fatigued by the end of the regular season.  Injuries have impacted multiple teams&#8217; star players during the playoffs, including the Suns&#8217; Devin Booker and the Bucks&#8217; Khris Middleton, among others.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption>ESPN Analyst and former NBA player Richard Jefferson.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">NBAE via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Adam Silver told reporters on Thursday he isn&#8217;t against changing the schedule if it has a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/malika_andrews\/status\/1532514972348977152\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">direct impact on injuries<\/a>. &#8221;  The NBA recently added a play-in tournament, which has meant teams playing more games.  <\/p>\n<p>Ideas have popped up on how to solve the problem.  One is a 78-game season &#8211; but with an in-season tournament near Christmas, according to ESPN&#8217;s Adrian Wojnarowski.  But Silver said the league isn&#8217;t \u201cthere yet\u201d as they go through talks with the board of governors and the NBA&#8217;s players union.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you were talking about the in-season tournament, I think that&#8217;s 100 percent, maybe, if you want to have a little bit more space,\u201d Jefferson said.  &#8220;But [shortening the NBA season] is the epitome of coddling players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShortening the season you&#8217;re going to mess with records, you&#8217;re going to mess with numbers.  You&#8217;re going to mess with so much of our basketball. &#8220;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Jefferson said the potential idea of \u200b\u200bthe NBA shortening its 82-game season makes &#8220;absolutely no sense.&#8221; Jefferson, a 17-year NBA vet who has transformed into an outspoken ESPN analyst after retirement, said that generally pro sports aren&#8217;t good on an athlete&#8217;s body. He added that the NBA has taken protocols to mitigate fatigue for &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/richard-jefferson-says-shortening-nba-season-would-be-absurd\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Richard Jefferson says shortening NBA season would be &#8216;absurd&#8217;<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[7228,297,389,994,2504,1741,295],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/1240752005.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1024","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}