The Trail Blazers’ upcoming scrimmage schedule will feature a minutes reduction according to AP’s Tim Reynolds. In the report from the AP, it was revealed that the NBA has decided to cut each quarter length by two minutes in an effort to reduce the strain on teams with less-than-full rosters in Orlando.
The NBA is tweaking the rules for those initial matchups, going with 10-minute quarters instead of the usual 12 minutes. The change is for several reasons — among them, not wanting to overly tax players after they went more than four months without games, and because some teams do not have their full rosters at Walt Disney World yet because of coronavirus and other issues.