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.
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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.
It is important that everyone buy in. Please familiarize yourself.
What’s so hard to understand? The American Education system has once again failed us
Those games are part of the regular season. Only the final is extra.
It’s not that complicated, man. They divide the league into groups, the teams in each group play each other round-robin style, then the ones with the best records do a single-elimination tournament. Every game counts as a regular season game except for the final.
I don’t understand how people can’t grasp such a simple tournament.
The announcers explain it in 10 seconds before every game.
JJ reddick said it best: “ do you not understand or do you not want to understand ? “
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.
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.
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.
Yes, a lot of people understand how the tournament works. Are people even reading the rules or just watching 30 second snippets on twitter?
> I understand the winners get money, but what about the losers? The Grizzlies just got eliminated, do they now play less games this season?
The losers do not get anything. They do not play fewer games. The games that are part of the tourney are also part of the regular 82-game season. Basically, it's an 82-game season like any other season, except some of the games double as tourney games. Imagine if last season they just changed the court on some games and said they counted towards a tourney but nothing else changed. It's like that. They just made sure that when they made the schedule, the teams that needed to play each other in the tourney do so.
>Will the winner of this thing have to play more games this season?
Yes. 28 teams will play 82 games this season, but the two teams that make it to the Tourney Championship will both play 83 games. The championship game is the only added game that is not part of the regular season.
>Do those wins end up on the regular season standing table?
All of the games except the championship game count as regular season games too, so yes. The wins and the losses, before the championship, are still also regular season games.
>Is it just me or does no one care about this thing except the marketing people?
This is incorrect; people do care. But you are not alone in not caring, or in dismissing it. Other people feel that way too. But myself and many others feel it is fun. I can't say for certain but I feel like more people are digging it than not. I can't prove that and it may very well be the reverse; it's just the sense I get. But whichever is the more popular opinion, there are definitely a variety of opinions, positive and negative, about the tourney.
What I don't understand the most is why I should care about it. What I read is that these games are the same as regular season games and I don't give a shit about reg season games for like another 3 months. Like a team wins a prize pool and a new NBA cup...okay. So they the early season champs or something? lol
It's a pointless tournament that teams don't care about