They're not doing a bracket tourney.Expanding the playoffs is dumb.
The in-season tourney could be cool, but, uh, 30 team league.
Just add Seattle and Montreal for 32-teams and then you have a perfectly formatted 5-round tourney.
Play a consolation bracket so everyone has 5 games in the tourney, and you're set.
For the in-season tournament, the NBA is focused on 30-team participation that begins with a divisional group stage of scheduled regular-season games.
Those pre-knockout-round games would be part of the regular-season schedule. Six divisional winners -- based on home and road records in the group stage -- and the two teams with the next-best records would advance to a single-elimination knockout round, league sources said.
It would Be smart to try another major Canadian city again after growing the game In the country with the Raptors. I dont ’t think the NBA owners want to expand though unless they ever really need the revenue from the expansion fee.Expanding the playoffs is dumb.
The in-season tourney could be cool, but, uh, 30 team league.
Just add Seattle and Montreal for 32-teams and then you have a perfectly formatted 5-round tourney.
Play a consolation bracket so everyone has 5 games in the tourney, and you're set.
Any way you slice it, 32 is a better format than 30 because 32 is divisible by 4, the number you need for semis.
They're not doing a bracket tourney.
I don't like that they want to have this in December. The February sports calendar is such a wasteland, and I figured this would give me a reason to pay attention to the NBA then (as I currently really only care from the Conference Finals on).
Not so sure I like the round robin preliminaries, though.
I always thought they should go the EPL route and scrap the playoffs, shorten the season to 64 games (2x each team) and the top point getter wins the season.
With the shortened season, have a tournament or two compromising of ~20 games during the season.
I always thought they should go the EPL route and scrap the playoffs, shorten the season to 64 games (2x each team) and the top point getter wins the season.
With the shortened season, have a tournament or two compromising of ~20 games during the season.
In a business sense, that isn't even close to being the case.And you also sap any interest in the season as there is nothing for a majority of teams to play for for 75% of the season.
I mean the Premier League doesn’t even really work like that. Champions League basically akin to a North American Playoff system, not only with a knockout system to culminate in a big final, but allowing teams down the table to qualify creating wider interest in the domestic leagues. The Premier League/La Liga/Budesliga are more like a North American conference while UEFA is the NHL, NBA, NFL equivalent.
G-league already has their Showcase in December that's being discussed here, though, it's been to different cities (Raptors 905 HAD it one year as I recall) and is already similiar to what the Summer League was in Vegas this past year instead of half the teams in Vegas, the other in UtahGet the G-League teams involved.
Use the competition to change rules by moving the game away from the three-point shootout contest. Bring back hand-checking, zone defense, protecting rim.
Silver has said he can see something akin to what happens in soccer. I don't know if that means playing for 4-5 different competitions during the season like Euro teams can do, but it would allow them to reduce schedule in regular season while keeping the same amount of games.....and giving top players an option to rest outside the regular season....and fans an opportunity to see team compete for another trophy.
Nothing wrong with having less valuable and important competitions run concurrently with the NBA season. As soccer shows, multiple trophies every season add to overall interest, they don't detract from it.
There is no way that is ever going to be acceptable in any sport in the US.
Gotta imagine NHL is monitoring how the NBA does this if it happens.
What does that matter? There's 6 divisions currently. Division winners make the knockout phase, along with the two 2nd place teams. 32 being divisible by 4 doesn't factor into this format because there's a group stage, they're not doing a straight knockout tournament.
What about the MLS?
I dont think this applies as much to the NHL. While I think the NHL season is a tad long, the NBA has the worst and most useless regular season out of any sport.
They need to do something about it a lot more than the other sports.
NBA also a pretty useless postseason until the conference finals too so expanding it sounds so dumb to me.