Sixty-one days.
If the 2010 NBA Finals goes a full seven games, that is how many days it will have taken to complete the 2010 NBA Playoffs.
Starting April 17, the playoffs would conclude with Game 7 of the NBA Finals on June 17. That’s entirely too long.
A student at The Ohio State University could nearly complete a quarter’s worth of classes in that time. Excluding exam week, a quarter at Ohio State is 10 weeks, or 70 days.
This past week, Stan Van Gundy, coach of the Orlando Magic, commented on the length of the NBA postseason:
“Baseball gets their whole playoffs and World Series done in like three weeks. Us, it takes us the first round to go three weeks.”
As far-fetched as it may seem, Van Gundy’s hyperbole is not that far off.
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