NBA In-Season Tournament to debut in '23-24 season

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The National Basketball Association today unveiled details of the NBA In-Season Tournament, a new annual competition for all 30 teams that will debut in the 2023-24 regular season.

The inaugural In-Season Tournament will tip off on Friday, Nov. 3 in NBA team markets and culminate with the playing of the Semifinals (Thursday, Dec. 7) and Championship (Saturday, Dec. 9) at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

“We are excited to introduce the NBA In-Season Tournament as an opportunity to further enhance and innovate around our season structure,” said Joe Dumars, NBA Executive Vice President, Head of Basketball Operations. “With the addition of this new marquee event on the NBA calendar, we are focused on providing players and teams with another competition to win, engaging fans in a different way and driving further interest in the early portion of the regular-season schedule.”
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NBA In-Season Tournament to debut in 2023-24 season

The NBA In-Season Tournament, a new annual competition for all 30 teams, will debut in the 2023-24 regular season. The final will be Dec. 9 in Las Vegas.
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This reminds me of some travel sports. Maybe the future of one of the professional sports will be several mini-tournaments to earn a berth into the final tournament.
 
Yappi said:
This reminds me of some travel sports. Maybe the future of one of the professional sports will be several mini-tournaments to earn a berth into the final tournament.
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Something like this would have made more sense to me. Say like the winner automatically clinches at least the #2 seed and home court through two rounds, runner-up clinches at least the #4 seed and first round home court advantage. Make it hold at least the same weight as being one of the three division winners in your conference.

Plus plus it closer to the middle of the season.
 
So if all these games count toward the regular season standings and toward playing 82 games (except for the championship), will the NBA have to cancel a game or two later in the year for teams that play quarterfinal and semifinal games?

For example, let’s say the Cavs play the Bulls in the quarterfinals and then play the Heat in the semifinals. Does the NBA then cancel a future Cavs-Bulls game and a future Cavs-Heat game? And since the semis are in Vegas, how do they determine whether it’s the Cavs or the Heat who lose a future home game?

This whole thing sounds pointless.
 
Yappi said:

NBA In-Season Tournament to debut in 2023-24 season

The NBA In-Season Tournament, a new annual competition for all 30 teams, will debut in the 2023-24 regular season. The final will be Dec. 9 in Las Vegas.
www.nba.com www.nba.com
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Just a few thoughts from reading through this....

  • Incredibly funny to me the NBA takes a hard stance on no games on election day, Tue. Nov. 7th. I was really planning on voting at 7PM that day so I can't go to the game.... :ROFLMAO: What a joke, and the NBA's dig at politics again, remember a few years ago when they (meaning the left) made NBA arenas voting places to get more people to the polls. I'm shocked they don't have a program where an NBA player would come to your house to pick up your ballot that day. :ROFLMAO:
  • Kind of ironic when separating teams, they put them into "pots". Freudian slip?
It's just shameful what's happened to the NBA. It's run strictly for money. ESPN/ ABC/ TNT run the NBA. Adam Silver has zero backbone and just bows to anything that can make the league a buck, including doing business with China. What will really be interesting is seeing how many stars play in this made up tournament.
 
LELL said:
If the referee's would call traveling and fouls, it would gain more viewers. That's why I stopped watching that garbage.
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And watching too many guys dribbling the length of the court and heaving up a three with no one there to rebound.
 
14Red said:
  • Incredibly funny to me the NBA takes a hard stance on no games on election day, Tue. Nov. 7th. I was really planning on voting at 7PM that day so I can't go to the game.... :ROFLMAO: What a joke, and the NBA's dig at politics again, remember a few years ago when they (meaning the left) made NBA arenas voting places to get more people to the polls. I'm shocked they don't have a program where an NBA player would come to your house to pick up your ballot that day. :ROFLMAO:
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I think it's just a way to raise awareness that it's election day and that it's important to vote, especially in a non-presidential year.
 
With the in-season tournament over, what’s your verdict?

For me personally, I’d say it made me mildly more aware of things happening in the NBA, but it didn’t create enough interest to actually make me watch any of the quarters, semis or final game this week.
 
AEW Champion said:
With the in-season tournament over, what’s your verdict?

For me personally, I’d say it made me mildly more aware of things happening in the NBA, but it didn’t create enough interest to actually make me watch any of the quarters, semis or final game this week.
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Thumbs down. It's nothing but a ratings grab and I'm pretty sure this was all set up for LeBron and the Lakers to win it because he can't win a regular title anymore. The season is too long and he and AD can't go through the rounds of playoffs it takes to win the title. So you create a early season tournament to gift wrap some early season games for LeBron and the Lakers. I called it two weeks ago. The Lakers were destined to win it. Now let's see if a bunch of the stars take games off from now until the all star break.
 
14Red said:
Thumbs down. It's nothing but a ratings grab and I'm pretty sure this was all set up for LeBron and the Lakers to win it because he can't win a regular title anymore. The season is too long and he and AD can't go through the rounds of playoffs it takes to win the title. So you create an early season tournament to gift wrap some early season games for LeBron and the Lakers. I called it two weeks ago. The Lakers were destined to win it. Now let's see if a bunch of the stars take games off from now until the all star break.
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It’s pretty clear the tournament was created so it can be marketed to TV execs as its own separate package of games for them to bid on as part of the next TV rights deal. Basically trying to milk more money from stooges for the same mediocre product. Don’t be surprised if the in-season tournament ends up on Apple TV or Amazon or Netflix in the not-too-distant future.
 
AEW Champion said:
It’s pretty clear the tournament was created so it can be marketed to TV execs as its own separate package of games for them to bid on as part of the next TV rights deal. Basically trying to milk more money from stooges for the same mediocre product. Don’t be surprised if the in-season tournament ends up on Apple TV or Amazon or Netflix in the not-too-distant future.
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My biggest issue with where pro and college sports are going is that many of the major decisions are being made not for the athletes or for the history of the sports, but all for viewership??? How did we get here?
Now I'm certainly not in their top demographic, I'm in my late 50's, I don't gamble. To me it's pretty simple, you shouldn't have to trick or incentivize players to "play". This became a thing because too many players we're sitting games when they were not hurt - "resting" for the playoffs. So from that perspective, I see it because the NBA championship is the summit, it's what sports are about. But somewhere we lost the connection where players felt it was their duty to play for their teams because of the crazy money they were getting paid. Fans pay good money to come see certain players and many were sitting.
The NBA product is great, they are the best basketball players in the world. I just wish we can go to a time where they just play, unless they are truly injured. I think the league owes that to the fans and viewers to put the best product on the floor as possible every night.
 
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