We are just days away from NBA basketball being back in our lives — not just NBA players fishing, golfing, or shotgunning beers from an ice tub, but actual, on-court basketball. With the first NBA scrimmages set to take place on Wednesday, and the Sixers retaking the floor on Friday, let’s quickly examine some recent news.
Scrimmages will be 10-minute quarters
The league announced that scrimmages will be 40-minute games, rather than the typical 48-minute affairs. The decision was made to ease players back into a full workload, after many of them were unable to keep up their usual conditioning during the COVID-19-forced quarantine period.