Mark Cuban suggests extending season into July to space out schedule

As the NBA openly looks for ways to lessen the toll an 82-game schedule takes on its players, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has some ideas.

Cuban has an opinion. We'll give you a second to collect yourself, we realize how shocking that must be.

While plenty of ideas have been kicked around that the league or union may not be amenable to - shortening the schedule altogether, shortening games, shortening the preseason - Cuban's suggestion is actually pretty agreeable. While it would cost players some of their offseason and force the league to alter its draft and free-agency schedules, Cuban thinks the league should just run deeper into the summer.

As Cuban explained Tuesday:

I've been bringing it up for years. (Commissioner Adam Silver is) more open to it, and he's going to be considering it. Everybody's for it now.
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I'd rather us go later in the season into July. Used to be, we had to be concerned about baseball. Now we don't. Baseball, particularly from a media perspective, has become regional, so it doesn't negatively impact us from a national TV perspective to go late.

If Cuban's evaluation of the competition with MLB is valid, then the primary concern with his idea becomes whether a shorter offseason would be counterproductive to the league's ultimate goal of resting players. 

It's definitely something worth exploring in greater logistical detail.