Kyrie is going to keep his head down, play 74 regular season games, and be healthy all playoffs.
Kyrie is going to keep his head down, play 74 regular season games, and be healthy all playoffs.
While games are meaningless to you, they are not to the 16-20,000 people that attend them. Eliminating 1 game from the schedule would eliminate 270,000 attendences (18k x 15) Those 270k people are much more important to the league than a million internet “fans” on their couches that don’t contribute to revenue.
The conferences and divisions make it so teams play other teams in their Time Zone more often. And more importantly, early Playoff series will be against an opponent in a Time Zone that is no more than 1hr away*.
This is important because the NBA is played on weeknights. The closer to Prime Time games are played, the more convenient it is for people to watch.
The old 3 on Draymond fastbreak…