However, not everyone has been a fan of what he said, that includes Los Angeles Lakers head coach JJ Redick. The first-year coach blasted Silver for entertaining the idea of shortening quarters.

“If I’m gonna live, let the old ways die/time to sing a new song/time to face it head-on,” he sings on the sanguine soft rock ballad “Turn It Away.” The line a manifesto, Quarters of ...