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Does anyone understand this tournament? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by erotic_tweet@alien.top to c/nba@nba.space

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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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[–] xSemperSuperbusx@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

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?

Every team only scheduled 80 of the 82 regular season games. Teams who move on in the tournament will play additional games in Vegas, and get their remaining 2 games that way. Teams that don't will schedule 2 additional games to round out the 82. The only game that doesn't count for the regular season is the tournament final.

All but two teams will end up playing 82 games and the two teams that make it to the finals will have an 83rd game. There are cash bonuses for every player in that final game so I don't think anyone will be upset about having to play an additional game.

Is it just me or does no one care about this thing except the marketing people?

The players seem to care and that's enough for me. You don't get to the NBA without being very competitive and anytime there's something they can say they won and someone else didn't they're happy to compete for it. And if they're happy to play I'm happy to watch.