[CatDawg]

Then you'll have to shorten the regular season. With all but 3 teams in the entire state making the playoffs, they would last until January if you started a month later. And as for unpopular, here's one that will fall in that category: kids today are from the playstation generation. Not outside enough to be acclimated. Workout in AC in offseason more often than not. These problems were far less common 25 years ago. Just calling it what it is. Don't blame basketball. It starts when it always has. Blame the lame playoff season that we now have in the Commonwealth. Blame the dead period. But it ain't a basketball issue.

If they would eliminate a round of playoffs and the off week that would make the season two less weeks. Then instead of starting the season on August 20th as is the case this year they could wait two weeks until September 3rd.
This would result in the season still ending the first weekend of December. Real simple and it would solve a large portion of the heat problems and the problems of having 0-10 teams making the playoffs.

I also agree about the playstation era instead of being outside getting use to the heat. My two are as bad as the rest.