How yall feel abt it? Imo I love it. Idk why people thought the NBA couldn’t make this work. It’s not perfect tho. It brings more competition, will make bench players try harder since the money matters more to them, gets people to watch at the start of the season, and the atmosphere is different from a normal regular season game. I hope there can be a better incentive though. Maybe moving up a seed at the end of the season (unless your the 1 seed) if you win the tourney. For example if your the 7th seed, you can get out of the play in by going to the 6th seed, which would make teams try even more imo. It also gives no reason for tanking teams to win since they wanna be low, not high. But maybe there’s a better incentive.
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I feel like it is not ambitious enough.
In my opinion, NCAA basketball is a dramatically worse on-court product, but they have no problem selling out NFL stadiums in neutral cities to watch a handful of “one-and-dones” and future Enterprise Rent-a-car salesmen. NCAA has even modeled how to run a relevant “in-season tournament” early in the schedule with events like Maui Invite and NIT Season Tip-Off.
In my mind, there is no good reason why the NBA’s in-season tournament should be any less of a spectacle than the conference championships and “march madness” tournaments run by North America’s de facto minor league pro-basketball organization (NCAA).
I don’t just love it. I want to make love to it. Truly making lave. That’s right.
I love it. The games are competitive, the courts are cool, and they still count as regular season games.
The only thing it’s missing is its own hummable theme song /s