NBA officially confirms In-Season Tournament

Potential · Post #21 » by **Potential** » Sat Apr 1, 2023 11:42 pm

It's apart of the 82 game schedule.

I'm definitely all for it

REJECTEDBYCLARK · Post #22 » by **REJECTEDBYCLARK** » Sat Apr 1, 2023 11:47 pm

How about the NBA making a 10 million dollar donation to a team's charity of choice instead.

Psubs · Post #23 » by **Psubs** » Sat Apr 1, 2023 11:50 pm

#1 priority is to eliminate back to backs which no on likes. Eliminate the excuse to rest players.

The allstar break is too long. Make it a day or 2 less if it will eliminate 1 back to back.

Post #24 » by **DG88** » Sat Apr 1, 2023 11:57 pm

2019nbachamps wrote:The 65 game rule is pretty useless. How many guys have won an award playing less than 65 games? Also, unless your contract has an all NBA clause then you’re not going to care anyway.

The in-season tournament is a terrible idea. They have them in European footy and no one cares about them. The in-season tournament format works when you introduce new teams that you don’t get to play in your normal league competition.

We thought the Play-In was a terrible idea and look at it now. Let's see how it works first before we come to conclusions.

pingpongrac · Post #25 » by **pingpongrac** » Sun Apr 2, 2023 12:02 am

500k for the winning team's players is a huge bonus. A lot of players got a ~1M bonus for All-Star selections a few months ago, so getting half of that for basically winning a few regular season games then one extra tournament game seems like a pretty damn good deal. Even more so for non-stars and guys looking to find their place in the league, that 500k would be huge. It could end up being ~25% of a young player's earnings for the season for example.

Jcity08 · Post #26 » by **Jcity08** » Sun Apr 2, 2023 12:19 am

Ive stopped watching allstar games and dont care for the play-in. Not sure if I can handle anymore gimmicks.

RandomRaptorfan · Post #27 » by **RandomRaptorfan** » Sun Apr 2, 2023 9:06 am

Let the winner get a first round bye in the playoffs, that would be a far more enticing prize than 500k per player

mtcan · Post #28 » by **mtcan** » Sun Apr 2, 2023 9:34 am

In season tournament should be for lottery odds.

Thaddy · Post #29 » by **Thaddy** » Sun Apr 2, 2023 9:57 am

The rich get richer.

WuTang_OG · Post #30 » by **WuTang_OG** » Sun Apr 2, 2023 5:34 pm

Read on Twitter

huge for cavs

ontnut · Post #31 » by **ontnut** » Sun Apr 2, 2023 6:03 pm

I don't mind it. Try it out for a few seasons, if it works it works, if it doesn't get rid of it next CBA. I like that the games count towards RS too so it's not extra games.

WuTang_OG · Post #32 » by **WuTang_OG** » Sun Apr 2, 2023 8:01 pm

its only 8 teams not 30 as originally reported

bluerap23 · Post #33 » by **bluerap23** » Sun Apr 2, 2023 8:50 pm

Should be a fun twist

WaltFrazier · Post #34 » by **WaltFrazier** » Mon Apr 3, 2023 2:04 am

Spida888 wrote:If the players care enough about the in season tournament then I’m all for it.

500K isn’t chump change especially for bench dudes but they probably won’t get to play anyways especially under Nurse lol.

Nurse? You think Rockets will make the final?

WaltFrazier · Post #35 » by **WaltFrazier** » Mon Apr 3, 2023 2:07 am

I wish they'd gone with Steve Kerr's idea to cut the season to 72 games.

rapluva · Post #36 » by **rapluva** » Mon Apr 3, 2023 11:15 am

2019nbachamps wrote:The 65 game rule is pretty useless. How many guys have won an award playing less than 65 games? Also, unless your contract has an all NBA clause then you’re not going to care anyway.

The in-season tournament is a terrible idea. They have them in European footy and no one cares about them. The in-season tournament format works when you introduce new teams that you don’t get to play in your normal league competition.

They should have also added..you can not be voted to an all star if you haven't played a certain percentage of games in the season ... hate seeing fans voting for big name players when they have been injured for most of the year. Their name should not be on the ballot.
That all star award goes to their name when they didn't even deserve it for that year.

HumbleRen · Post #37 » by **HumbleRen** » Mon Apr 3, 2023 12:03 pm

rapluva wrote:
2019nbachamps wrote:The 65 game rule is pretty useless. How many guys have won an award playing less than 65 games? Also, unless your contract has an all NBA clause then you’re not going to care anyway.

The in-season tournament is a terrible idea. They have them in European footy and no one cares about them. The in-season tournament format works when you introduce new teams that you don’t get to play in your normal league competition.

They should have also added..you can not be voted to an all star if you haven't played a certain percentage of games in the season ... hate seeing fans voting for big name players when they have been injured for most of the year. Their name should not be on the ballot.
That all star award goes to their name when they didn't even deserve it for that year.

Nah man, All Star is for the fans lol. It's not like it's an award for the entire season, all star is basically how well you play in the first 2 months of the season.

Spida888 · Post #38 » by **Spida888** » Mon Apr 3, 2023 3:49 pm

WaltFrazier wrote:
Spida888 wrote:If the players care enough about the in season tournament then I’m all for it.

500K isn’t chump change especially for bench dudes but they probably won’t get to play anyways especially under Nurse lol.

Nurse? You think Rockets will make the final?

My guess is Nurse still stays for the remainder of his contract which is 1 year left but who knows. I don't think Raps fire Nurse without him finding a new team right away (ex. Houston) because I believe Raps would still have to pay him the 8M owed for his last year.

Maybe he does go to Houston next year though, they don't own their pick next year so they wouldn't want to tank.

Dennis 37 · Post #39 » by **Dennis 37** » Mon Apr 3, 2023 3:58 pm

Raps in 4 wrote:Nobody is going to care about the mid-season tournament.

If teams are forced to compete, I imagine they'll just play their bench players/prospects/G-League call-ups. No way teams risk injury to key players for something so pointless.

Look at the AllStar game. That's what the tournament games will look like if they have no effect on the standings.

Dennis 37 · Post #40 » by **Dennis 37** » Mon Apr 3, 2023 4:03 pm

DG88 wrote:
2019nbachamps wrote:The 65 game rule is pretty useless. How many guys have won an award playing less than 65 games? Also, unless your contract has an all NBA clause then you’re not going to care anyway.

The in-season tournament is a terrible idea. They have them in European footy and no one cares about them. The in-season tournament format works when you introduce new teams that you don’t get to play in your normal league competition.

We thought the Play-In was a terrible idea and look at it now. Let's see how it works first before we come to conclusions.

The playin gets players into the playoffs. That is kind of the only incentive, other than money, that makes players try. It was also an attempt to reduce tanking, and I think it has been somewhat effective. Don't see why high paid stars will try in this tournament if the games mean nothing.