Part 2 of why the NBA is better than college basketball is short and simple, which is to say it’s longer. Don’t follow? What I mean is it is a short answer: the season is longer.
In the regular season, each NBA team has 82 games and each NCAA team has about 30. Some may argue that this makes NCAA better because each game counts more, and I can understand where that argument comes from. However, I think this makes the NBA better because you have more chances to watch. We all have busy lives and can’t watch every game of our favorite teams, no matter the sport. With the NBA having more, if you miss a few games it’s no big deal.
And with more games, you also have a chance of seeing something awesome happen. Each of the 30 teams has quality players. Even the lowly Clippers, who are terrible year after year, have reason to watch. Blake Griffin, the former Oklahoma Sooner, is one of the most fun players in the game to watch.
If you want to counter my argument by saying, “yeah, but the NCAA has way more games overall than the NBA,” I will respond, “7,650 more games per year are too many to keep track of. If something cool happens in a game between Murray State and Eastern Kentucky, then you can watch it on SportsCenter. There are so many awesome things that happen in an NBA game that you can’t see in a college game that ESPN doesn’t have time to show them all.” Then you will most likely respond with something along the lines of, “Wow, you are correct, just like you always are. I’m sorry for ever questioning you.”
More games = More awesomeness.
