Andrew SimonThe Daily Northwestern

Everyone knows March Madness is the nickname for the NCAA basketball tournament.

But what’s the nickname for the NBA playoffs? It’s hard to think of one, but I’ll give it a shot: April Apathy? May Malaise? June Jadedness?

None of them fully applies, of course, since the bloated monstrosity known as the NBA playoffs spans across three months and can last nearly nine weeks.

So we need an all-encompassing term. Spring Stupor, perhaps?

Whatever you want to call it, the NBA playoffs are a snooze when compared with the preceding NCAA festivities.

While one might argue the NBA playoffs only look so bad in direct comparison to the two-and-a-half-week NCAA tourney, the baseball playoffs start and end in October, and the NFL playoffs wrap up in slightly less than one month.

So why do the NBA playoffs have to take so long? The obvious answer is money. More games mean more revenue.

But a more exciting product could make up for fewer games.