On Wednesday, Silver went on "The Dan Patrick Show" and was asked about the "wildest" changes he and the league have considered. Silver said that one thing he'd been thinking about was the possibility of dropping from 12-minute quarters to 10-minute quarters.

Nuggets coach Michael Malone slammed Adam Silver’s idea of shedding two minutes off each quarter, a move the commissioner floated in a radio interview in hopes of appeasing the shorter attention span of modern TV viewers.