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Sources: Earlier Start To NBA Season, Fewer Preseason Games Included In Next CBA

The NBA regular season is "poised to start a week to 10 days earlier beginning next season as part of scheduling changes planned" in the league's forthcoming new CBA with the NBPA, according to sources cited by Marc Stein of ESPN.com. Sources said that the '17-18 campaign is "earmarked to start in the Oct. 15 to Oct. 20 range -- up from Oct. 25 this season -- to create additional wiggle room that allows the league's schedule makers to further reduce the number of back-to-backs and four-games-in-five-nights sets on the current schedule." Sources said that the current eight-game maximum of exhibition games per team "will be reduced to five or six preseason games per team in the new collective bargaining agreement." The number of back-to-backs, along with the "number of four-games-in-five-nights scenarios, should drop again noticeably thanks to the proposed schedule changes" (ESPN.com, 12/5). ESPN.com's Kevin Arnovitz noted the stipulations for the schedule are a "nontrivial concession by the league," as dozens of preseason dates that generate revenue for ownership "will be wiped away." In exchange, the league and its owners are "investing in the health and well-being of the athletes who drive the value of the NBA" (ESPN.com, 12/5). 

ROLE PLAY: Rockets G and co-player rep Patrick Beverley said that he is "happy to have heard about tweaks in the rules that will help role players who become restricted free agents." He said that the new deal could "help the rank and file of the union." Beverley: "All due respect to all the superstars who are kind of the face of the league, me and [Trevor Ariza, a Rockets co-player rep] talked about the glue guys, the utility guys that you need on your team, make the team possible" (HOUSTON CHRONICLE, 12/6). 

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 25, 2024

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Big Get Jay Wright, March Madness is upon us and ESPN locks up CFP

On this week’s pod, our Big Get is CBS Sports college basketball analyst Jay Wright. The NCAA Championship-winning coach shares his insight with SBJ’s Austin Karp on key hoops issues and why being well dressed is an important part of his success. Also on the show, Poynter Institute senior writer Tom Jones shares who he has up and who is down in sports media. Later, SBJ’s Ben Portnoy talks the latest on ESPN’s CFP extension and who CBS, TNT Sports and ESPN need to make deep runs in the men’s and women's NCAA basketball tournaments.

SBJ I Factor: Nana-Yaw Asamoah

SBJ I Factor features an interview with AMB Sports and Entertainment Chief Commercial Office Nana-Yaw Asamoah. Asamoah, who moved over to AMBSE last year after 14 years at the NFL, talks with SBJ’s Ben Fischer about how his role model parents and older sisters pushed him to shrive, how the power of lifelong learning fuels successful people, and why AMBSE was an opportunity he could not pass up. Asamoah is 2021 SBJ Forty Under 40 honoree. SBJ I Factor is a monthly podcast offering interviews with sports executives who have been recipients of one of the magazine’s awards.

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