NBA ? What in the HELL is this In Season shit?
 

I don't follow NBA much at all anymore so I ask, what happened to their season? What is this In Season Tournament crap?

Someone explain why the change and exactly what is this?

Is it fair to all teams?
Is there a Season after this Tourney


I'm Confused.

https://www.nba.com/news/in-season-tournament-101

Google is your friend..

Think of the NBA Season as a sewer line, and the in-season tournament as a neighbor’s sewer line that is joined into it.

This is why I don't go to NBA games.

NBA is unwatchable.

They are trying to make early season games more relevant.

But there is really no need for that... because gambling.

Just some bullshit rigged so that LeQueen can win something.

I'm not so sure about that. Let's ask LeBron's cousin @KCconnection whatcha think about this statement by ARROW2?

So it's a bunch of shit that's going to get changed?

I'm a Laker fan and can't stand this insecure narcissist. You damn near get cancelled if you criticize this PED taking fraud. Grown ass men who are Bron worhippers attack if you say anyting about this dude and get all emotional over somebody who would step over their dead body and don't know who they are.

That's right starvin Marvin - an appetizer is what you eat, before you eat, to make you more hungry.

Would be funny if a team like the Warriors who aren't in the in season tournament end up winning the championship.

It was rumored that they were cousins. See list here.

https://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=351130

Two games away from LeBron's 5th NBA title.

So they get a early tournament, then they play a season?

Teams that lost early, are they home sitting on their butts?

Pretty cool ain't it?

In Season tournament games are regular season games. All the teams were included in pool play.

I think it's worked pretty well. While my teams are out (OKC, MIN), it's pretty easy to see that the players have bought in and are brining a higher level of intensity to these games.

Your dumbass is equally as bad with the Kobe Bryant dick sucking.

If there was an early season tournament in the NFL... Buffalo would still fail to win it.

Would the Chargers still be the off-season champs?

The Court designs and jerseys of the NBA have become comical. It's like the Oregon Ducks own every single NBA franchise now. I just turn the channel when teams wear something fugly. One of the many reasons I don't watch much NBA anymore.

As for the topic, why have a tournament at the beginning of the season, to break up the monotony of a long season? I mean, the season just started.

To generate better ratings on non-NFL days (Tuesdays and Fridays were when they played the games).

So after the tourney, they still play games? All games go towards final standings?

Is there a tourney end of season too

Yeah, it's called "the playoffs". Look it up.

Adds excitement. I think it's pretty awesome, this tournament. They don't have a one-game single elimination tournament. The postseason tournament is to crown a champion. This is March Madness style one loss and you go home type of thing.

Eh, I appreciate the creativity. It’s actually an interesting idea and I think baseball should do it too. It’s set up in a way that doesn’t really mess with scheduling but makes some regular season games a little interesting. All for ideas like that.

The interesting thing, at least my personal experience with betting on these games, is that teams have different motivations. Teams who have nothing to play for are more likely to rest players while teams in contention that need to win or win big go balls to the wall. So that’s not great. One thing that drives me nuts about the nba of late is how they just casually rest starters at the last minute.

How’d that go for you, Roy??

All you need to know is that it is dumb as **** and the NBA has sucked for a few years now. It's an in season tournament for cash. Nobody is going to remember who won what 6 months from now so it really doesn't matter. If you need something early in the season to make the games more interesting and to ensure more of your star players actually play, then your product sucks.

Jordan, Magic, Bird, Shaq, Kobe, etc... didn't need a reason to play hard or just play at all. Jordan would have laughed in your ****ing face if you would have suggested he take games off to manage his load. It has turned into a league of entitled pussies led by the biggest pussy of all time, Lebron James.

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It like the old winter conference tourney of the ncaa way back when.

When social media becomes the only stat to hang your hat on, your sport is dying. You know who follows the NBA on social media? Poor mother****ers that can’t buy tickets and have too much ADHD to actually watch sports. I work at a site with over 1,600 people physically on-site every day. I have been involved in 0 conversations the last 2 years involving the NBA and I see literally zero NBA gear being worn. I hear and am involved in NFL and MLB conversations regularly and see fear from both leagues daily.

My other theory is that you're going to get more social media regarding basketball because you can see their faces. The biggest marketing flaw of football is that they all wear face-covering helmets, which makes it harder to turn players into societal sensations.

:clap: Nailed it!

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***I like watching the NBA and don't mind the idea of an in-season tournament***

The PHX Suns in-season court is so ridiculously colored that I can't see the ****ing ball move. Its like watching 10 guys with Tourettes doing an interpretive dance out there when you can't see the ball.

ROFL

The thing that I don't like about basketball is the bouncing.

You know where that came from. They started playing and it was too easy to just carry the ball down court and throw it in the peach basket, so they had to make it harder. They then made this nonsensical rule that you have to bounce the ball while you're moving. There's no reason you should have to do it. It has no metaphor for reality. You just have to bounce the ball to make it a little harder. And then everyone ignores the rule anyway.

Basketball should be more like football. You barrel down the court carrying the ball and other players try to stop you or knock you down or steal the ball from you. If you get down court then you can shoot. That, my friends, is a game. If people want the ball, they have to take it from you with violence. This bouncing thing is pathetic.

I guess I’ll have to continue my 20+ year streak of not watching

The fact that you've been involved with zero NBA conversations may speak more to where you live than the popularity of the NBA.

What do you mean? It's easy. Date Taylor Swift.

Problem solved.

Probably an age thing and a location thing. KC has no team. I've had many of conversations with people in their 20s and 30s about the NBA (even in KC) however for some reason people in their 50s and 60s have a strange hatred about the NBA except for the Jordan days. I get it. Its rooted in different political ideology. I just like basketball and I remove myself from any politics of it. Most people increasingly are not able to do that. Thats why they hate womens soccer and the nba. Its why others hate Nascar. It is what it is. Wish it would change.

Dumbest idea in sports history. Utterly ridiculous.

That all depends on what happens this week.

MLB regular season... largely pointless with 162 games.

NFL... no idea how they do it given so many awful, pointless games and the true fans just waiting it out for when the games matter between the 2-4 contenders each year.

NHL... the most watchable regular season, IMO, but games don't really get going until Feb or March... far too many back to back games, thus teams going through the motions.

NBA... does the regular season matter much? Something like 20 teams make the playoffs/play-in now?

Without really knowing anything about it, seems like a way to gain some attention while football is in peak season... anything to make shit more interesting for both fans and players while hopefully having the better teams meet more often seems like a good thing.

Its seems like a player motivator strategy which trickles down to a viewer motivator

That's good, and hopefully formatted in a way to take advantage of rivalries or at least potentially teams meeting again in the playoffs to add some extra spice later.

Could be interesting to see analysis around closer (better) games and star player participation compared to regular games

Some interesting trivia, first team credited with dribbling was Yale. Players could only shoot or pass so they found a loophole that they could bounce it as a pass to themselves. Balls were too shitty to maintain a dribble so it was just a ton of 1-dribble moves.

I guess I don’t see what’s ridiculous. For the most part it isn’t some side tournament like the maui college bball tournament where it’s a side tournament. That would be awful for the nba because it would mess up schedules

They’re regularly scheduled games where they just decided to add some extra stakes. If it was disrupting the scheduling that would be one thing but it’s mostly not. The only dumb thing is the eyesore courts. Otherwise it’s one of those ideas that at worst feels like just another regular season game to fans who don’t care

College basketball does the same with the Thanksgiving week tournaments. They do it because its fun for the fans and apparently gets the players into it too (Durant said the same just yesterday, feels like the playoffs).

No one at the NBA offices bothered consulting with the 60-year-old NFL fan demo to see if they would like it because apparently every 60-year-old NFL fan admittedly refuses to watch the NBA because it has sucked since the 90s.

Yeah, it's true though. After the great Celtics, Lakers and Philly teams in the early and mid 80s, and later the Pistons, it was all downhill after that. You're spot on.

But how would you know if you haven't watched it in over two decades?

Can’t wait for the thread when your house “mysteriously” burns down

Lmao, burnnnnn!

Trying to make early games relevant and not pick up ball where nobody wants to get hurt and expend to much energy...

I kept watching. I lived in Houston during the Rockets run, loved Hakeem and those teams, but it's just never approached those golden years when the competition was fierce and physical and the teams despised each other and the talent was less diluted.

I mean you could say that about any sport. Players were joking and laughing it up on the field right after the Chiefs got their asses kicked on Sunday night. Didn’t seem like it bothered most of them at all.

Yeah it's true. As a KC fan, Raiders-Chiefs, Royals-Yankees, that stuff gets in your blood. It's fine, but it does make it seem like it means less to the players than it did back then. And those guys weren't getting paid.

I'm glad others are confused here

It is not that complicated.

And the players are into it which makes it fun.

I only barely pay attention to the NBA due to betting purposes but it seems fun that players play the whole games instead of everyone being pulled in a 12 point game with 4 minutes left.

I think all these sports would benefit from shorter seasons and smaller playoff fields ... if you're interested primarily in the quality of the product delivered to the fans.

Of course, none of these leagues are interested in that, they're interested in getting the biggest TV contract they can get, regardless of how the quality of the product degrades.

The in season tournament is basically applying a soccer type group stage knockout stage type of thing to the season. It doesn't impact the season All it does is add some excitement around early games for games they're already going to play. I think the NFL should do this cuz no one gives a s*** about division winners.

Related...

Lakers barred from wearing their preferred black uniforms in Las Vegas, per report

If the Los Angeles Lakers had it their way, they would be wearing their black "city edition" uniforms for their In-Season Tournament semifinal matchup vs. the New Orleans Pelicans on Thursday.

But the league has shut that down, according to ESPN's Dave McMenamin, who cites "concerns over the visual contrast between the jerseys and the design of the specialized in-season court the semifinals will be played on at T-Mobile Arena."......

https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/l...as-per-report/

Except the division winners of course.

Hmmm, I believe the last time I have watched any NBA games was when Tim Duncan and David Robinson were winning with the Spurs.
Early 2000s, holy shit, about 20 years ago!

He can't and never will touch Kobe. He is a fraud.

Yeah but Kobe was a rapist and prolly only like top 15 all time

:rolleyes::rolleyes:

LePED.....LeBitch

And fewer teams.... both in the playoffs and overall.

They’ve doubled down on the ugly court.

Dumbest shit ever

Lol only a rapist fan would think LeBron is on steroids.

If you are serious.......seek help.and call 911...

This in season tournament thing is the best thing they've done in the last decade for the NBA outside of calling flopping penalties...which unfortunately they don't seem to care about anymore. Don't see why this won't gain steam each season.

Your honor, i submit this video of dlp's girl's rapid head movement between my legs as consensual. That is what I call talent.

Yawn

The NBA sucks ass. I like the NFL, PGA Tour, MLB, all of the soccer leagues better than NBa. Every time ESPN or Fox Sports talks about the NBA I fast forward the remote control.