Isaac
Years ago
Sources: NBA has sent teams the proposal for 2021-22 season changes:
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) December 21, 2019
- 78-game regular season
- In-season tournament ($1M per player, $1.5M coaches pool for champion)
- Play-in tourneys for 7-8 playoff seeds
- Final 4 reseed in playoffs based on regular season records
Zodiac
Years ago
I highly doubt the players are going to want to have a further increase of games.
Cut the regular season to something like 60 games then I might start paying attention to the NBA again. It's boring AF.
Hanging Round
Years ago
PLUS Lebron can take as many steps as he like without bouncing the ball.
Zodiac
Years ago
That's right but at least WWE make you feel like it's dinkum. When the refs let guys like LeBron & Harden take 16, 17 steps without bouncing the ball you know they're not even trying to hide it anymore.
Isaac
Years ago
Is the in-season tournament meant to provide arbitrary added interest?
Exactly right Zodiac. The league is in desperate need of slashing the number of games. Reducing so few that no one will even notice is pointless. 60 is a much better number and is still a ton of games.
Bert
Years ago
60 is ideal but the NBA is too traditional when it comes to records/stats.
Playoffs drag on they need best of 5 rounds until the finals then go best of 7.
UseTaHoop
Years ago
They probs have media contracts that require a minimum number of games for broadcast, plus sponsors wanting max exposure.
Zodiac
Years ago
Is the in-season tournament meant to provide arbitrary added interest?
"60 is ideal but the NBA is too traditional when it comes to records/stats."
The good thing is that the records are blown to hell the moment they take even 4 games away. After that there will be much less resistance to removing further games. Records/stats is a really really dumb reason to oppose a change that will improve things but that is another discussion.
Zodiac
Years ago
I don't think stats come into it at all. No one cares about NBA stats anymore what's Harden averaging 60ppg? Who cares. They seem to get by during lockout shortened seasons. It's all about the TV contracts.
Go Dees
Years ago
Shortening the season also messes with the players money as less product will equal less cash and the top tier players won't like given up the money!
No one is watching the nba regular season but the content is important as is the home games for owners and local sponsors/markets.
Wouldn't be an NBA post without someone directing hate towards Lebron
AussiePride
Years ago
I have almost no interest in the regular season of the NBA now. Too much tanking, too many games that don't mean anything. Still love the playoffs essentially because of the high level of rivalry and competition.
For interest to go back into the regular season less games would mean that every game is more important. Also there is a need to reduce the benefits to be gained by tanking. It is fine to try to even up the competition by getting great players to poor performing teams, but to incentivize losing negates the benefits.
You need to be a registered user to post from this location. Register here.
Advertise on Hoops to a very focused, local and sports-keen audience. Email for rates and options.
An Australian basketball forum covering NBL, WNBL, ABL, Juniors plus NBA, WNBA, NZ, Europe, etc | Forum time is: 8:29 am, Thu 28 Nov 2024 | Posts: 968,026 | Last 7 days: 754
