“The regular season has real issues.” Bill Simmons lays out the fundamental issues that he feels the NBA is not taking seriously.

@BillSimmons Why was not an issue up until the 2010’s when it was still 82 games?

@BillSimmons This is the first time you’ve wondered whether or not Adam Silver is the right guy to run the league? Seriously?

@BillSimmons As long as you can watch a 10 second video of Anthony Edwards dunking on Twitter Adam silver doesn’t care what the actual games look like.

@BillSimmons Less games is a cop out for the absolute dog shit basketball being played If we focused on legislating the game better, refereeing the game better, and playing the game better 82 games wouldn't be enough

The 82 game schedule started during the 1967/68 season when the average salary for an NBA player was $20K per year. The players didn’t have an issue with it in the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s, 2K’s or 2010’s. Now players are making an average of $11 million per year and the 82 game schedule is a problem? I think we have a pussy problem. Kobe?

@BillSimmons NBA has been unwatchable for the better part of a decade. Bill is a fanboy and only now is seeing this

@BillSimmons 12 less games is gonna fix all the problems @BillSimmons ??? Doubt it bubba. The problem is the players make too much money to care about winning. The purity is gone.

@BillSimmons Its been 82 games for 55+ years. Athletes have more tech/nutrition/money than ever to keep their bodies healthy. Stop the sniveling.

Fans don’t want Shorter Seasons‼️‼️‼️ A Shorter season doesn’t benefit a Fan in no type of way If the season is shorter than Guys will still find ways to rest Injuries are happening because theses guys aren’t playing enough. They need to be having real practice. Organizations need to start putting incentives in contracts. It’s no way Guys are being Paid Millions of Dollars and coming to camps out of shape or during the season being giving half effort How are you going from College that have mandatory weight Lifting programs. Mandatory trainings and practice. But when you get to the NBA and getting paid millions. Your free to just grow as you please individually That’s why the NFL is far superior to the NBA it’s more structured there more mandatory things going on The NBA is way too loose no structure Nobody cares if guys are getting hurt. They make it’s seem like fans will be crushed if LeBron is out for a Season or Steph No if your body can’t make it through a full season Retire‼️‼️‼️ The fact that they trying to make it more easy for guys is the reason Guys like Paul George still in the NBA when he should have been retired or been a Roll guy. He still being paid like a Superstar Stop the Bullshit narrative nobody wants shorter games‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

@BillSimmons My god shut the fuck up. These players are pampered pussies and it’s sickening. If they can’t man the fuck up and handle this then they shouldn’t be in the nba. You’re not going to ruin the record books by shortening the season.

@BillSimmons Ten years from now: "Your schedule's too long. You have to fix this. It's too long. It should be 65 games." 🙄

Are players not practicing hard anymore? Shouldn’t they be use to the NBA pace of play with consistent simulated scrimmages.. and shouldn’t the moves they see and do be muscle memory now.. shouldn’t they have enough research on what muscles to use and strengthen to help with injury prevention. Shouldn’t the best technology, trainers, specialist, help with the injury issue we got going on.. because I’m not buying the whole playing 5 out is what’s causing all these soft tissue injuries. Especially when hardly anyone is playing 82 games and missing games because of injury maitenence.. like what the fuck is going on.. and for the tanking it’s fucking gross. 30 games left and you got a quarter of the NBA tanking. Without a doubt the NBA is in the worse shape as far as a watch standpoint than any other professional sport.. we always want a small market team to make noise in the NBA and minus the spurs that’s damn near impossible because the small market teams are in tank mode, are resting their best players 15 games into the season. Yet MR. Silver is talking about expanding with 2 more teams and completely ignoring the fucking dumpster fire the NBA is right now.

@BillSimmons Do you honestly think this will ever happen? It's been 82 games for six decades. The NFL is about to ADD another regular season game. I don't see them ever reducing the number.

@BillSimmons I've wondered that about Silver for a while now. Seems like he's not up for this.

@BillSimmons If bill took a 2 million dollar pay cut , would it be fine?

@BillSimmons Devin Booker

- Add 6 expansion teams - D1: 24 teams - D2: 12 teams - 4 Teams Relegated / Promoted - 46 game schedule (~1.9 games per week) - Remove live-ball timeouts - Remove defensive 3-seconds - Remove bs tv timeouts - implement transfer market - NBA Cup = in season tourney that involves both divisions Every game is competitive warfare. Ratings 📈 Injuries 📉 Tanking eliminated Euro soccer model would work even better in NBA

@BillSimmons warriors don't have that unhinged schedule up top, Jimmy Butler might still have a career 😢

@BillSimmons Adam Silver isn’t the guy for the job.

@BillSimmons The schedule being 70 games ain’t gon stop teams from tanking or teams load managing players. A shorter season ain’t gon change the big issues the league has

@BillSimmons Bill is still on this? The league even did his completely unnecessary, and now properly reviled, in-season tournament. Just stop it

@BillSimmons You know football season is over when the nba regular season is bad talk is back

@BillSimmons Horrible take @BillSimmons….cats were playing 82 on the regular back in the day - w/o “advanced medical science”.

@BillSimmons Half of NBA teams are load managing to try for playoff runs, the other half are not playing players to tank (with 30 GAMES LEFT). I’m paying for two subscriptions (local AND national) WHY?? I used to stay up until 1am watching TNT games, but the joy of watching the NBA is gone.

@BillSimmons The NBA Cup is stupid. I have a fix: expansion teams in Seattle & Vegas gives you 32: 8 divisions of 4. Play everyone in your division five times (15 games), conference thrice (36), and cross-conference once (16): 67 games. Series winners determine playoff seeding. Who says no?

@BillSimmons As a fan of almost every major sport basketball is the least injured sport argue with a wall. This dude would never have made this comment if Tatum didn’t get hurt.

@BillSimmons Bring back the illegal defense rule, redraw the three point line to eliminate corner threes and get rid of the lottery. Teams wouldn't tank multiple years if they got one good draft pick based on their actual record.

@BillSimmons Reward winning, the last 41 games of the season whichever non-playoff teams have the best records get top pick or better odds. The first 41 games teams try to win because they’re not sure what they have/try to make playoffs, & then the last 41 they try to win for a better draft

@BillSimmons The biggest issue is the way the game is being played today. Most games are just two teams running up & down the floor chucking 3’s…it’s unwatchable. The 82 game season which has now led to the normalization of “load management” is just insult to injury.

@BillSimmons If it does go down to 70….do you think that actually fixes any of the issues? Will Players get injured less? Likely not. Will teams still tank? Yes. Will guys play harder during the regular season? Nope. So what does this actually accomplish bill?

@BillSimmons Bill the season isn’t too long. The players are just more entitled than ever

@BillSimmons The commissioner works for the owners, he’s a figure head, the owners make the decisions so it’s not his fault. The owners are are not in the business of taking games away and giving money back. Your narrative is flawed because it’s all about money not the fans or players

@BillSimmons Regular season should be 42 games max. And space them out, max two games a week for each team. Penalize teams big time for sitting healthy players.

@BillSimmons This was a bunch of malarkey. The players need to stop being soft. Instead of identifying the real issue, you point at the nba to be less taxing. What type of values are you even teaching? I have a better idea. Anyone complaining about the tolls of the nba, go join the wnba.

@BillSimmons They’ve been playing 82 games since 1967. Shut up Bill.