else, then the regular season schedule reduction is smaller: each team would play 60 games vs. conference foes, plus 16 games vs. the other conference, for a total of 76 games. I like the 71-game idea better, but I understand that cutting 6 games could be more palatable to greedy NBA owners than cutting 11 games. Plus you would end up here anyway, if the league expands.

It would at least be an improvement over the current 82-game fiasco.