NBA NBA adding an in-season tournament in 2023-24

[MMC]

Very excited about this

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[No Fun Shogun]

Are they going to cut down on the length of the regular season? That’d be the only tradeoff that I’d see as good, and truth be told I’d have a hard time imagining caring about a random mid season tournament regardless.

 

[The Burdened]

what are the stakes? why would anybody care about a mid-season tournament?

 

[Terry Yake]

So f***ing stupid and unnecessary

 

[Mrfenn92]

Not that wild about this

 

[HisIceness]

I'll willing to give it a chance and see how it operates but the idea doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Is the idea to cut down on "load management"?

 

[BKIslandersFan]

The magic of FA Cup ln England, for example, is top tier teams playing lower league teams that play in small towns and cities.

Which does not exist in basketball. At least no independent minor league teams exist anyway,

 

[Vamos Rafa]

Well you don’t get a trophy for division titles so might as well get one if you can’t win the ultimate prize.

 

[Big Poppa Puck]

This is incredibly stupid pointless. Might as well just add more games to the regular season. And there's already probably too many. This will also just add to more DNP-rests or fake injuries. Doubt the good teams will even care about it.

"Congratulations to the Orlando Magic for winning Mazda Cup!"


They're trying to be like soccer, but are either ignoring or are unaware of the fact that those in season soccer tournaments involve different/lower leagues.

This would be like the Premier League having a tournament that only included those 20 teams.

 

[Voight]

Silver and his pals are just full of dumb ideas.

As if the play in wasn't moronic enough.

 

[Big Poppa Puck]

As much as we talk about dictator Goodellbot and the incompetence of Bettman and Manfred. Silver and the NBA is just as bad. The exact opposite of Stern. He's such a pushover. (Star) Players run the league and have way too much power. Then you have things like these dumb tournaments and when owners complained about the Sixers tanking he forced the Colangelos on them. Meanwhile the Thunder are currently doing the exact same thing to crickets.

 

[Voight]

As much as we talk about dictator Goodellbot and the incompetence of Bettman and Manfred. Silver and the NBA is just as bad. The exact opposite of Stern. He's such a pushover. (Star) Players run the league and have way too much power. Then you have things like these dumb tournaments and when owners complained about the Sixers tanking he forced the Colangelos on them. Meanwhile the Thunder are currently doing the exact same thing to crickets.

Its the definition of inmates running the asylum.

Seems like hes more interested in being liked by the players. Stern may have ruled with an iron fist but that method certainly worked.

 

[Big Poppa Puck]

Its the definition of inmates running the asylum.

Seems like hes more interested in being liked by the players. Stern may have ruled with an iron fist but that method certainly worked.

I mean I'm all for players getting paid as much as they can and having some say in things, but they have way too much sense of entitlement and then are given the power to just feed that.

 

[Voight]

I mean I'm all for players getting paid as much as they can and having some say in things, but they have way too much sense of entitlement and then are given the power to just feed that.

Agreed, look at Kawhi - made the Clippers trade a kings ransom for Paul George as a condition of him signing with them.

LeBron told the Cavs he would return only if they traded for a third star.

Harden/Simmons also good examples.

 

[Vamos Rafa]

Agreed, look at Kawhi - made the Clippers trade a kings ransom for Paul George as a condition of him signing with them.

LeBron told the Cavs he would return only if they traded for a third star.

Harden/Simmons also good examples.

I don’t understand why you have a problem with superstars having demands regarding the roster. They have all the leverage in the world. They are free agents that are being chased by teams, not the other way around like a journeyman looking for another team to play for. These guys are just making sure they’re making the right decison. Really pathetic of you to compare the NBA to an asylum. Also, one of Kobe’s demands if he were to sign with the Clippers in 2004 was to have home games in Anaheim. Now that’s beyond GMing. That’s ownership territory.

 

[BB88]

I don’t see the point for this.

Just more reasons for playerd to ”load manage”

 

[Stylizer1]

They are trying to improve ratings because the game has suffered a lot over the last 10 seasons. They would make the game more exciting if they got rid of Zone Defence. More mistakes leads to easier baskets leads to excitement at the rim. Very hard to find someone cutting through the backdoor for an alley oop when all the lanes are clogged.

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

Stupid idea and I see no reason for it

 

[GKJ]

Only thing they can put behind this is a ton of money, otherwise nobody gives a shit

 

[Say Hey Kid]

Only thing they can put behind this is a ton of money, otherwise nobody gives a shit

Agreed. If a lottery team could win a 10th seed in the POs that might have been fun, but except when my son comes home, I'm done with the Association. @GKJ

 

[The Gr8 Dane]

Basketball fans will gobble this up tho. They love this dumb stuff

 

[Big Z Man 1990]

If Dan Gilbert is smart he will order the players on the Cavs to go on strike until the play-in games are eliminated. If it disrupts the start of the 2022-23 season, so be it.

 

[MMC]

 

[Maple Leaf]

Basketball fans will gobble this up tho. They love this dumb stuff

lol


tru

 

[Vamos Rafa]

Basketball fans will gobble this up tho. They love this dumb stuff

So you love dumb stuff?