Sports Pro Central

Putting on my Einstein hat leads me to believe sports excitement is a combination of interest and time. The higher each one scores, the better right? Something is wrong here because basketball is the exact opposite. The lower the time the better, since the game is like a slimy sodium filled hot dog - it’s mostly filler. To maximize basketball’s interest, this is the new de facto as proved by 1,000s of historic games:

Excitement (e), Interest (i), Game length in minutes (t)

e = i(t - 43)

Figure it out math dropouts? I know you can’t, so here’s the answer - reduce a basketball game from 48 drawn out minutes to 5. Face it, the first 80 points each team scores is useless. Trading baskets and feminine looking hand check fouls for hours of TV coverage is bland.

Oust the Timeouts

Teams are allowed so many timeouts, the last 2 minutes of the game turns into around 20 minutes in real life. Basket, call timeout. Missed shot, call timeout. Inbounding a ball, call timeout. Call a timeout after seeing what play the other team is doing. Add up the minutes, then add some more for fouls, foul shots and player subs, and it becomes as long as the rest of the quarter. No other sport comes close to giving as many breather freebies to players, who can’t think for themselves what to do….. even though they’ve been playing the sport since they were 5 years old.

Reduce all those silly timeouts to NONE

Reduce the game to 5 minutes

Basketball would be better. End of story dropouts