This seems pointless. The season is already 8 months long for the best teams, there’s barely enough time for FIBA, Olympics, etc. Teams are going to lose on purpose to avoid this nebulous tournament and get extra rest for their guys. Just my 2 cents.

What an amazing opportunity to water down the product even more. I am starting to think I would have preferred to keep David Stern. What are we gonna give away for winning half the season? A mini Larry O’Brien? Ads on the jersey’s suck dude there’s more than enough advertising and I pay top dollar for merch, tickets, and concessions. Slapping ads on literally anything and everything is a little bit disrespectful to my experience imo. But oh! Another opportunity to do just that.

I personally love this. People were so negative about the idea of an in season tourney… but what’s the worst that could happen? The worst is that nothing changes and this tourney is irrelevant. The best case scenario is we get an awesome in season tournament and get a small preview of the post season.

I can’t wait to see what this ends up looking like. I hope this leads to some bad blood between teams come playoff time. I hope these games get heated man!

I’ll never be sad about more basketball. Interested in seeing how this works out.