The Ringer’s Kevin O’Connor and Chris Vernon discuss the NBA In-Season Tournament ahead of the knockout rounds, and the changes they would make for the future.
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15 Comments
Someone said that a better reward is either a guaranteed 7th seed for at least play in 2 games or guaranteed 15th pick with a 1% chance at pick number 1
My suggestion would be to make it last all of November (10 games)
and have each team play both a home and away game vs their group and 2 games vs the other groups, so point differential is less important with common opponents.
Id say i like vernons idea but hes wearing a cowboys jersey so i refuse 😂
tournament is great – change the group size to 4 or 6 and you will have less teams with the same record and the point differential gets less important
American cant understand football per usual haha
Winner of the IST gets to pick who they want to play in 1st Round of the playoffs. If they don’t make the playoffs this year it rolls over to next year. Who says no?
The only problem with setting aside a section of the season the do the tournament is that teams who're knocked out will get a few weeks of rest so good teams might throw the tourny to rest their guys
I hate the video starting format. It's not a movie trailer…
That's not how the world cup works
Verno: Love your idea and you are absolutely right. BUT. The NBA has tried to make this with the minimal extra games. And so the single elimination games you mention are kept to a minimum. Same problem with KOC's comment: they really don't want extra games and they also have to worry about reserved arenas.
This guy doesn't get how the world cup works
Is the dude on the right the same guy that thought Memphis will be like 13-12 without Morant? What a idiot
Two idiots talking bb
Reward should be home court advantage in every playoff series if they make the post season, a guaranteed spot is WAY too messy. Home court advantage isn’t even a big deal IMO like in a potential game 7 you get home court alright lol
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