Adam Silver Should Be Impeached For Scheduling Thursday's Knicks-Sixers Game At 9 PM ET
Damn, the NBA is really doing everything in their power to get the Sixers to the next round with this 9 PM start. Old Man Embiid gets extra rest, the Sixers fans that don't betray their Philly brethren by selling their tickets to New Yorkers with City Money will have more time to whip themselves into a belligerent state, and the already undermanned Knicks will have to fight off exhaustion from all angles since they have a 7 man rotation due to injuries and will be up past their bedtimes. David Stern must be grinning ear-to-ear from a cloud somewhere at this obvious fix!
Okay, that was all a bunch of malarkey I made up tongue-in-cheek and likely a side effect of the unhealthy amount of copium I have inhaled after Tyrese Maxey straight up snatched Game 5 right from the Knicks' hands. All of this would be a lot easier to digest if Maxey was an unlikable asshole like Reggie Miller, Pat Riley, and Trae Young. But dealing with a Knick killer in the playoffs that I don't outright loathe since all Maxey does is ball the fuck out no matter what the Knicks defensive supermind coach throws at him has put my brain in quite the pretzel.
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To make matters worse, the game that was a Mitchell Robinson boneheaded play away from not happening is scheduled to tip at NINE PM (please pronounce NINE PM in your head like that fuckhead Principal Rooney from Ferris Bueller's Day Off for the preferred blog experience).
I say scheduled because the NBA's tipoff times are as reliable as Barstool HQ's WiFi, with games always tipping wellllll after the scheduled time for no reason because again, THE NBA SCHEDULES THEM!
I'm admittedly saying this as an Old that has trouble making it to 10 PM to watch whatever carnage my baseball team unleashes on my soul on a nightly basis and knows there are plenty of other Olds out there with the same problem. However, I'm also saying this as someone who works a fake job that can be done from home, unlike the vast majority of people who have to go to work the next day after watching an NBA playoff game that will undoubtedly come down to the last possession and leave viewers with at least an hour worth of adrenaline whether their team wins or loses.
Not only am I thinking of my fellow Olds that have to fight off the late tip, but the Youngs can't be happy either. Staying up past your bedtime for a playoff game is admittedly awesome, but you know what isn't? Being an overtired zombie that snaps at the entire world because you didn't sleep at all the night before, or even worse being the guy at school that missed the end of the game because your shitty little kid brain powered off after 11 PM hit.
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Actually it's probably for the best that children won't be watching this dirty motherfucker play basketball.
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The worst part about all this is that there is another NBA game on Thursday night involving the Bucks and the Pacers that is scheduled for tip at 6:30 PM. Why not move that game to 9 PM since Milwaukee is in the Central Time Zone while Indiana feels like it should be in the Central time zone and Indianans(?) wouldn't complain at the late tip since they are too polite plus are used to central times based on where they live?
I know New York is the capital of the planet and the Sixers have the reigning MVP, even if the MVP won that MVP from being a foul merchant along with people being tired of voting for the true MVP that just so happened to roll to an NBA Championship last year. But 9 PM is simply too late, Mr. Silver. And if you don't stop this tomfoolery in the future, the power brokers in New York that sign your boss's checks and just so happen to be Knicks fans got two a bunch of words for ya….
