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Rockets’ Owner Alexander Calls for Schedule Change
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All posts by Basketball InsidersUpdated1 hour ago on April 27, 2024
While the NBA canvases teams to solicit thoughts on restructuring the length of seasons and schedules, NBA commissioner Adam Silver will not need to wait for the Rockets’ input. Rockets owner Leslie Alexander took his opinions directly to the commissioner this week, making an appeal for changes that would make fewer regular season games seem like exhibitions.
Alexander called for changes as extreme as requiring teams to win a certain number of games to be eligible for the top three picks of the draft to avoid systematic tanking to the more subtle change of extending the season to spread out the 82 games and reduce the number of back-to-backs.
