Hey everyone! I’ve watched a few videos to try to figure out how this thing is working but all the videos are shilling for the NBA and talking about viewership during the Football season and how "players dont care about the regular season enough. I understand the winners get money, but what about the losers? The Grizzlies just got eliminated, do they now play less games this season? Will the winner of this thing have to play more games this season? Do those wins end up on the regular season standing table? Is it just me or does no one care about this thing except the marketing people?
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What’s so hard to understand? The American Education system has once again failed us
Based on my understanding this is the following:
Stage 1:
There are 6 brackets and the winners of each of the 6 brackets and 2 wild card teams proceed to the next round.
All matches are part of the regular season schedule.
Stage 2:
Now there are 8 teams and this is a single elimination game. You lose once and you are eliminated from the tournament.
(the other 22 teams will play regular games while the 8 teams play the elimination matches).
The important thing is that only the 2 finalist play an extra game, the rest of the games are part of the schedule.
https://www.nba.com/news/in-season-tournament-101
In the time it took you to type this out you could have found all the answers.
As for if people care. They do more than normal regular season games. Maybe not by much, but it’s something new.
Word, I saw that but I was hoping to have more of a round robin discussion with people not employed by the nba, to parse out how we are all understanding the thing.
All 30 teams play in a 5-team group stage. 1 team plays 4 games in a group stage. 3 group winners plus 1 wild card advance to the knockout round. Quarterfinals, semifinals and championship are single-elimination games. Winner of the tournament wins $500,000 and the NBA Cup.