Alright, let’s talk about this basketball stuff, the NBA, you know? The young folks are always yappin’ about it. So, how many of them “quarters” are in one of them NBA games? That’s what they call ’em, “quarters,” like it’s a dollar or somethin’.
Well, I heard tell there’s four of them quarters in a game. Yep, four. Just like a pie cut into four pieces, I guess. Each one of them quarters, they play for 12 minutes. Twelve whole minutes! That’s a long time to be runnin’ around, I tell ya.
- First Quarter: 12 minutes of runnin’ and jumpin’.
- Second Quarter: Another 12 minutes, and then they get a little break.
- Third Quarter: Back at it for 12 more minutes, gotta keep that ball movin’.
- Fourth Quarter: Last 12 minutes, that’s when they really go at it, tryin’ to win.
So, if you add it all up, 12 plus 12 plus 12 plus 12, that’s 48 minutes of playin’ time. Forty-eight minutes! That’s a lot of time to be watchin’ fellas throw a ball around. But they don’t just play for 48 minutes and go home. Oh no, there’s more to it than that. They got these time-outs, and fouls, and commercials, you know, all that stuff.
They say the whole thing, from start to finish, takes about two hours, maybe two and a half. Two and a half hours! Imagine sittin’ there for that long, watchin’ them bounce that ball. I tell ya, I got better things to do. I got chickens to feed and gardens to tend.
But the young folks, they love it. They sit there, yellin’ at the TV, like them players can hear ’em. And they talk about these “quarters” like they’re somethin’ important. “Oh, the third quarter was terrible!” they say. Or, “They really turned it on in the fourth quarter!” It’s all the same to me, just a bunch of fellas chasin’ a ball.
Now, I heard tell that it wasn’t always like this. Back when they first started this NBA thing, way back when, they used to play two halves, like twenty minutes each. Then they switched it up to four quarters, but they were shorter, only ten minutes each. But then, they decided twelve minutes was the way to go, and that’s how they do it now.
So, if anyone asks ya, “How many quarters are in NBA?”, you just tell ’em, “Four! There’s four quarters in an NBA game.” And each one is twelve minutes long. And the whole thing takes about two hours. And don’t forget, it used to be different! They used to play halves, not quarters, see? It’s important to know your history, even when it comes to this basketball stuff.
NBA game time is longer than just the 48 minutes of play. You got timeouts, fouls, halftime, and all sorts of stoppages. They even got commercials, gotta sell them sneakers and sodas, ya know. So, while the actual playing time is 48 minutes spread across four 12-minute quarters, the whole shebang takes a lot longer. Don’t let nobody fool ya on that.
They got these breaks, too. A long one in the middle, they call it “halftime,” and a couple of shorter ones between the first and second quarter, and then again between the third and fourth. It’s all a bit much, if you ask me. Too much stoppin’ and startin’. But I guess that’s how they like it, all fancy and drawn out.
So, there you have it. Four quarters in an NBA game, each one twelve minutes long. A whole lotta runnin’ and jumpin’ for 48 minutes total playing time, but the game itself takes way longer. And it wasn’t always that way, they used to do it different. Now you know as much as them young fellas yappin’ on the TV, maybe even more.
