Many people can get cranky when they lose an hour of sleep as clocks move forward for Daylight Savings Time.
That one-hour DST time change happened overnight Saturday into Sunday, and sure enough, Los Angeles Clippers Bally Sports SoCal announcer Brian Sieman got cranky calling Sunday’s Clippers-Milwaukee Bucks game at Crypto.com Arena.
Yet he had a very good reason to be upset. The Clippers had played the Chicago Bulls in a game that started 1 p.m. Los Angeles time Saturday. Sunday’s game started at noon local time. Add in the time change, and those start times were 22 hours apart, making an already brutal back-to-back pair of games even worse.
During the second quarter Sunday, Sieman roasted the NBA schedule makers for the situation.
“[Whoever] made that schedule possible should be ashamed of themselves,” Sieman said. “It’s a 22-hour turnover for the Clippers. Day games on the back-to-back are difficult period, whether they’re in December or January. They gave the Clippers a back-to-back day game situation the day of Daylight Savings Time, and then they bumped the game up an hour. It’s 22 hours between tip-offs, which goes against NBA protocol.
Clippers announcer Brian Sieman rips NBA schedule makers for the Clippers' morning back-to-back against Bucks:
"22 hours between tipoff, which goes against NBA protocol. A shameful scheduling situation and those responsible should be embarrassed." pic.twitter.com/rckLCLNh8f
— Farbod Esnaashari (@Farbod_E) March 10, 2024
“A shameful scheduling situation and those responsible should be embarrassed. I’m being very honest,” Sieman concluded.
Fans agreed with Sieman’s remarks — that was a ridiculously short window during the DST weekend. If the NBA is going to schedule back-to-back games those days, at least adjust the start times.
Cc: @NBA https://t.co/QBtZk4DMAL
— Blank Slate (@blankslate2017) March 10, 2024
Brian Sieman is 100% correct. https://t.co/ycHVtsSFyf
— Josh Gitt (@joshgitt1214) March 10, 2024
We should’ve boycotted this Bucks game today.
Back to back games and both at noon (12:30pm) is disgrace.
F*ck the NBA and Adam Silver.
Brutal 🤦🏽♂️ https://t.co/Gk3FHNNpIf
— Jeylani Brown (@BrownJeylani) March 10, 2024
[Farbod Esnaashari]