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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2014
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"If I wasn't playing 82 games, I still would've been playing somewhere else because that's the love for the game I had. As a player, I never thought 82 games was an issue."
- Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan has played 82 games nine times. LeBron has never done it.
THE MORNING BREW
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TRIVIA OF THE DAY
Q: Between Michael Jordan and LeBron James, who had the best season in points per game?
A: Michael Jordan in 1987 with 37.1 PPG.
-USA Today
Health, money or love for the game?
Basketball players have always been seen as heroes, constantly proving their herculean
athletic abilities and giving children a first-hand look at what it would be like to have superpowers. The game of basketball isn't how it was when MJ played in the 1980s and '90s. Basketball has increased in competitiveness, and the NBA's schedule had had to catch up to a league that's growing bigger, faster and stronger.
Yahoo Sports reported in a 2013 article on NBA injuries that "averaging 35 minutes in an NBA game in 2013 is far more taxing than doing as much 30 years ago, or even in Michael Jordan's era ... as the game continues to grow, the injuries continue to pile up."
Reigning NBA MVP Kevin Durant is out for six to eight weeks due to a foot injury, and Indiana Pacers star Paul George suffered a horrifying
injury during a Team USA exhibition game and is out for the remainder of the season.
only thing that will help is cutting games from the regular 82-game season schedule. James is in favor of the shortened 66-game schedule.
Because of the increase in injuries, the NBA has been toying with the idea of shortening games. On Sunday, the Boston Celtics and the Brooklyn Nets played in a 44-minute game (four quarters of 11 minutes), four minutes less than a regulation game. The NBA's biggest star, LeBron James, speaks for many athletes in the NBA and said he doesn't believe shortened games will reduce fatigue or the number of injuries. James said he believes the
"The minutes don't mean anything," James told reporters Wednesday. "We can play 50-minute games if we had to. It's the games that I think we all as players think is too many games in our season. 82 games are a lot."
Michael Jordan, owner of the Charlotte Hornets, was puzzled as to why James and other NBA players want to reduce the schedule.
"If I wasn't playing 82 games, I still would've been playing somewhere else because that's the love for the game I had," Jordan told ESPN. "As a player, I never thought 82 games was an issue."
would result in a loss of $30 million in team revenue, according to Forbes. The NBA also just signed a new TV deal with ESPN and Turner for $24 billion over the next nine years. That deal was made for a slate of 82 regular season games, not 66. If the reduced schedule were to be put in place, would the deal need to be renegotiated?
The lockout of 2011, which reduced the regular season to 66 games, gave the players a taste of what the reduced season would be like. Reducing the regular 82-game schedule to 66 games
James realizes reducing the number of games will result in less revenue, but he is more focused on the well-being of the players.
At the end of the day, we want to protect the prize and the prize is the players." james told reporters. "We have to continue to promote the game and if guys are being injured because there are so many games, then we can't promote it at a high level. We got two of our top guys in our league out right now. I'm not saying it's because of the games, but anything will help."
This week in athletics
Tuesday No Events
Wednesday
Women's Volleyball
lowa State
6 p.m.
Ames, Iowa
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No Events
Friday
Women's Soccer
Iowa State
7 p.m.
Lawrence
Saturday
Men's Golf
Price's "Give 'Em Five"
Invitational
All Day
El Paso, Texas
Sunday
Women's Golf Palmetto Intercollegiate All Day Kiawah Island, S.C.
Monday
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