u/IMovedYourCheese

Celtics signed Brown to a 5-year $303.7M supermax extension in 2023, the highest in NBA history at the time. He is still owed $57M, $61M and $65M guaranteed for the next 3 seasons. He is also eligible for a contract extension later this month, which he will definitely demand.

The deal made sense at the time, because Boston was extending a championship roster, but with the new CBA this is an albatross contract for any player who cannot single handedly get you a ring. Combined with his public image and all the debate about advanced stats and his real impact, it isn't hard to see why teams wouldn't be jumping over themselves to take him. He is too expensive, and teams in the second apron simply cannot compete. The fact that Brad Stevens has been shopping him around for the last month and no one is biting should be enough proof of that.

Philly themselves are very deep in the hole paying Embiid + Maxey + Brown, and if the combo doesn't work then this is a lose-lose trade. They didn't exactly fleece anyone.

Right now we have 30 teams playing 82 games each = 1,230 total regular-season games

If you add two more teams, this balloons to 1,312 games in a season. Space for prime time and nationally televised games is already very limited, and people only have so much time in one evening, so this will just mean that more games get punted to local networks and League-Pass and go unwatched.

If you simultaneously cut down to 76 games per season the total remains almost unchanged (1,216 games), and so ticketing and TV revenue doesn't take too much of a hit.

Teams currently average around 14 back-to-backs per season. This 6 game reduction cuts it by almost half, which is huge. It also cuts down 3 road games, which saves a bunch of travel.

Personally I wouldn't miss those 6 games, and being able to space out the season would be a lot better for injuries.

Despite the monumental effort it takes to organize a tournament like the World Cup every single match starts at the listed time, on the dot. I can't remember a match this entire tournament starting even a minute late. It is 9:45 PM right now and both matches are at the 45 minute mark.

FIFA still does media coverage, pre-game shows, ads, player intros, interviews, analysis, national anthems, coin toss and the rest of the charade. Despite all that if they can kick off on time what is NBA's excuse?

Heck the NBA couldn't start the damn draft on time.