How Many Games Should There be in the NBA Regular Season?

[Celtics2021]

It's only a matter of time before the league expands to 32 teams.

Everyone plays each other twice: 31 x 2 = 62 games

As things stand, there's no parity. Some teams have relatively easier schedule cause they happen to be in weak divisions (and vice versa).

Has there ever been parity in NBA scheduling?  Is this something that’s an actual problem that needs fixing?  Maybe from a Euro point of view it’s odd, as I understand you’re not from the US, but in the North American leagues unbalanced schedules are the norm.

[Moranis]

I know they already kind of mean very little to most people, but I do think having at least the concept of historical comparisons alive is worth something. If they started a 60 game season next year pretty much every single all time record holder for points, rebounds, steals and assists and blocks is the leader for eternity (although I guess that is already true for rebounds). That seems a little lame to me.

I think it is true for all of the 5 major categories.  There won't be a new all time leader in points, rebounds, assists, steals, or blocks on any of our lifetimes anyway

I wonder if Halliburton could maybe make a run at assists if he has a super long career. He is definitely not in his prime, has upped his assists every year. He also seems to actually care about getting assists ( was visibly upset when his teammate passed when he could have got a 20 20 assist game). If he could start pumping out some 13 assists a game seasons and stay healthy it seems possible. Still very doubtful but perhaps possible.

Stockton played 1504 games and averaged 10.5 apg.  Thst is 15806 total assists. 

Haliburton currently has 2037 assists and has played 235 games. So he needs 13769 more assists. Let's be generous and say he averages 11 apg the rest of his career. He needs still 1252 more games.  At 75 games a year, that is 17 more seasons.  So for the next 17 seasons Halburton will need to average 11 apg and do so playing on average 75 games a year. 

It just isn't happening.