VIDEO: Adam Silver says that he would be a 'fan' from 10 minutes quarter, 40-minute NBA games News, results, highlights, statistics and rumors

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver is a pronunciation potentially shortening NBA games for 40 minutes from the current 48-minute format.

“Something else I'm a fan – and I'm probably in a minority – while we're more involved in global basketball … NBA is the only league that plays 48 minutes. I'm a fan of four 10- minute,” he said during Wednesday Patrick Show Day. “I'm not sure many others. Putting what it means for records and things like that, I think it's a two-hour game format is in line with modern television habits don't ask us to shorten games, but I think like a television program , Olympic basketball for two hours, College basketball is of course 40 minutes of course. “