Marcus Smart previously has also said “No one cares about that” in reference to the in-season tournament during media day. Is the fact that there are no stakes taking away from this new event?
Not sure why they’re being so petulant about it, like spoiled children. I’m sorry you can’t rest 8 games into the season (not at JB specifically).
I, for one, am 100% towards doing something, anything, that is a step towards making games before January matter more.
Wasn’t there a bunch of collective games last week during the games? I thought it was a fun time
Isn’t Jaylen the smart athlete? He should understand the purpose of the tournament and why players need to at least pretend and market it.
Give the winner of the tourney (which doesn’t count as a regular season game/stat) up 1-0 in the first round of that years playoff. And if that winning team doesn’t make the playoffs, give them one extra lottery ball. These players make so much more money going deep in the playoffs
Silver gonna be sitting these men down and having a chat about good PR for the league and how it affects their bank accounts lol
This is the same type of guy whose mad when the boss orders pizza. Most people are like “cool, pizza.” And then one guy is like “why should I even care about pizza? It’s not even my favorite.” Like just try not to be miserable for a second.
Smart players would want this to be successful, especially when they share revenue and TV contracts are coming. Jaylen got his bag though.
The stakes will get higher when teams realize they’re dead last in their group and/or during the knockout round.
Then lose jaylen, if you don’t care don’t even come. I’m sure the fans don’t want to see players that aren’t excited to play
nobody really knows if it’s a prestigious award or not yet, because this is the first year it has existed. i’m hoping my bucks win because i think it would be cool to win the first in-season tournament, and it would actually be even cooler if this ends up being the only one ever
To be honest if they want to make it more high stakes, winning the in season tournament and coming second should equal additional wins for regular season to potentially sway playoff seeding. For example winning the tournament gives 3 more wins and coming second gives 1. Given seeding can be changed even by one win, what better stakes would there be, and it’s not as if this would completely upset the NBA.
It’s beyond dumb and will be gone in no time just like the all star changes.
Jaylen as in jaylen brown?
I bet the players on better teams would kinda want to ignore this tournament, because they can easily be bounced by a lesser team in one night.
But players on lower teams, who have no hope of beating the elite teams in a 7 game series, might see this as their only chance to win something.
As a fan I didn’t care, but after attending one game I wanty boys to win.
I this just an extra little competition to have.
Why do teams exist? To compete. Just something fake to root for, like every single sports outcome
The wildest part about this comment section IMO are all the fans who have convinced themselves that somehow having the “in-season tournament” label is why the games last Friday were great, as if it had any effect at all whatsoever.