Well, let me tell you, I heard folks talking ’bout this basketball thing, this NBA. They was goin’ on and on about how long them quarters are. Now, I ain’t never been much for sports, but I got curious, you see. So I asked around, and here’s the gist of what I found out about how long is each quarter in NBA.
So, these NBA games, they got four parts, they call ’em quarters. Each one of them quarters, they say it’s 12 minutes long. Yeah, 12 minutes! That’s what I heard. Sounds like a long time to be runnin’ up and down a court, if you ask me. But what do I know? I always get tired after a few minutes of walking.
Now, they say 12 minutes for each quarter, and there’s four of ’em, so you gotta do some addin’. 12 plus 12, plus 12, plus 12… that makes it, let’s see… 48 minutes. 48 minutes of playin’ time in a whole game. That’s just the regular time, they call it. NBA quarters are 12 minutes, that’s the important part to remember.
But that ain’t all there is to it. They got these other times, too. Times for restin’ and such. I don’t know why you’d need rest when you’re young and spry like them basketball fellas, but I ain’t gonna judge. Between them halves, the big middle break, they get a whole 15 minutes! Can you believe it? 15 minutes to just sit around and catch your breath. The younger me can walk non-stop for hours.
- 12 minutes a quarter
- 4 quarters in a game
- 48 minutes total
- 15 minutes between halves
And then, they got these little breaks between the quarters, too. Not as long as that big middle one, but still. They say it’s 2 minutes and 30 seconds. Just enough time to gulp down some water and maybe wipe the sweat off your brow, I reckon. I guess that’s important when you’re workin’ up a sweat like they do. Each quarter in the NBA is 12 minutes, and that’s a fact. At least, that’s what they tell me.
Now, sometimes, they say the game goes into somethin’ called overtime. I guess that means they didn’t finish up in those 48 minutes. If that happens, they get more time. They say 2 minutes and 30 seconds before that extra time, too. It gets confusing when you have to add all these breaks and such. They should just play the game and be done with it. But hey, I ain’t no expert. I just listen to what folks say and try to make sense of it all. How long is an NBA quarter? 12 minutes! Remember that.
I heard some folks sayin’ that college basketball is different. They don’t have quarters, they got these things called halves. And them halves are 20 minutes long each. Seems like a lot, don’t it? But I guess that’s just how they do it in college. They always gotta be different, them college folks. Always complicating things. But we’re talking about the NBA here, and in the NBA, a quarter is 12 minutes long.
And then there’s this WNBA thing. I think that’s for the ladies. They play basketball, too, you know. And they got quarters, just like the men. But theirs are only 10 minutes long. So a whole game for them is 40 minutes. See, even more different! Why can’t they all just play the same way? It’d be a lot easier to keep track of. The world is too complicated these days, I tell ya.
So, there you have it. That’s what I learned about them NBA quarters. 12 minutes each, four of ’em in a game. Plus them rest times in between. If you just remember how long each quarter is in the NBA, you are fine. 12 minutes. It is not too hard to remember. I hope I made it all clear as mud for ya. If not, well, I tried my best. I ain’t no fancy writer, just sharin’ what I know. And what I know is that them basketball players run around a lot for 12 minutes at a time, four times in a row. And that’s all I got to say about that.
