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NBA Changes Schedule In Hopes Of Reducing Players Resting During National TV Matchups

The NBA has "taken the most aggressive measures to date to build rest into its schedule," according to Brian Windhorst of ESPN.com. After many "high-profile players didn't play in major matchups last season, the new schedule protects key national television matchups to make sure teams aren't playing on back-to-back nights." Much of this is "made possible by extending the season by one week." For the first time, the NBPA is a "part of the scheduling process to review possible problem areas." The schedule changes eliminate "stretches of four games in five days and 18 games in 30 days." Also reduced are "five games in seven nights to just 40 instances." Last year it was "on the schedule 90 times." Meanwhile, 40 back-to-backs have been "eliminated from last season." The schedule is "expected to be finalized this week and portions are expected to be announced soon" (ESPN.com, 8/8).

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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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