OT: this new NBA Tournament

[Sean Miller Fan]

Adam Silver wants to do an in-season single elimination tournament similar to the FA Cup in England which I think is a heck of a great idea. I wished I came up with it. The proposal is to reduce the regular season to 78 games to partly account for this. Some poll shows 60% of NBA fans prefer a shorter season anyway.

But where Silver can really knock it out of the park is to listen to my ideas on how to administer the tournament.

64 teams comprised of
30 NBA teams
31 G League teams
1 American semi-pro team or team from the Puerto Rican league
1 Canadian semi-pro team
1 team from the Mexican league

1st Round played in November at the site of the lower seed (G-league cities) to create a local buzz of an NBA team coming to play in Erie or Des Moines or Grand Rapids. In England, you see Manchester United or Liverpool playing in some 2000 seat "field" and its kind of a surreal setting.

2nd Round also played at G-league venues if any remain. These games should be played on January 1. College football has given up NYD 2 out of 3 years and there's nothing else on. The NBA could take over NYD.

Sweet 16 and Elite 8 should be played at a neutral site non-NBA arena with an NCAA Tournament setup and feel. Thursday Sweet 16. Saturday Elite 8. Something like that. Maybe the week before college basketball's Championship Week.

Final Four should also be similar format as college. Played at a neutral site, non-NBA city. I'd think if Pittsburgh or Birmingham or Columbus or Louisville got a Final Four of this tournament, it would easily sell-out. The big question would be when do you play it? I'd play it the week after the NBA Finals. I don't like playing it during the regular season during March Madness or the NBA's April Playoff Push. It would be an afterthought. I'd play it a week after the NBA Finals when nothing is on TV besides baseball. Yes, that creates an issue that some teams may have not played in 2 months if they didnt make the playoffs but so what. Some soccer teams go 3 weeks between their last game and the Champions League final.

 

[HOF Coach]

 

[below0w]

You could just pretend you came up with it like you do for all of your other unoriginal "original" ideas.

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

You could just pretend you came up with it like you do for all of your other unoriginal "original" ideas.

I am nothing without my integrity.

 

[recruitsreadtheseboards]

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HOF Coach, you literally made me spit out my drink with that response.

Well done.

 

[BFo8]

Adam Silver wants to do an in-season single elimination tournament similar to the FA Cup in England which I think is a heck of a great idea. I wished I came up with it. The proposal is to reduce the regular season to 78 games to partly account for this. Some poll shows 60% of NBA fans prefer a shorter season anyway.

But where Silver can really knock it out of the park is to listen to my ideas on how to administer the tournament.

64 teams comprised of
30 NBA teams
31 G League teams
1 American semi-pro team or team from the Puerto Rican league
1 Canadian semi-pro team
1 team from the Mexican league

1st Round played in November at the site of the lower seed (G-league cities) to create a local buzz of an NBA team coming to play in Erie or Des Moines or Grand Rapids. In England, you see Manchester United or Liverpool playing in some 2000 seat "field" and its kind of a surreal setting.

2nd Round also played at G-league venues if any remain. These games should be played on January 1. College football has given up NYD 2 out of 3 years and there's nothing else on. The NBA could take over NYD.

Sweet 16 and Elite 8 should be played at a neutral site non-NBA arena with an NCAA Tournament setup and feel. Thursday Sweet 16. Saturday Elite 8. Something like that. Maybe the week before college basketball's Championship Week.

Final Four should also be similar format as college. Played at a neutral site, non-NBA city. I'd think if Pittsburgh or Birmingham or Columbus or Louisville got a Final Four of this tournament, it would easily sell-out. The big question would be when do you play it? I'd play it the week after the NBA Finals. I don't like playing it during the regular season during March Madness or the NBA's April Playoff Push. It would be an afterthought. I'd play it a week after the NBA Finals when nothing is on TV besides baseball. Yes, that creates an issue that some teams may have not played in 2 months if they didnt make the playoffs but so what. Some soccer teams go 3 weeks between their last game and the Champions League final.

The only problem with this is most of the EPL teams don’t give a crap about the FA Cup at all unless in gets down to the semis. Crowds aren’t very good and the better teams tend to rest a lot of guys in the early round matches.

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

The only problem with this is most of the EPL teams don’t give a crap about the FA Cup at all unless in gets down to the semis. Crowds aren’t very good and the better teams tend to rest a lot of guys in the early round matches.

You're right as EPL teams send mostly reserves to the earlier rounds but that's also part of the magic as it leads to a good number of upsets. If the Lakers sent a team to Erie without LeBron and AD and Erie won, it would be still seen as a massive upset and a day that people in Erie will remember forever.

 

[Joe the Panther Fan]

If the Lakers sent a team to Erie without LeBron and AD and Erie won, it would be still seen as a massive upset and a day that people in Erie will remember forever.

Yeah, but it's just as likely that the people in Erie would remember it because they bought high priced tickets to see the Lakers play and James and Davis didn't play, so they felt like they got completely ripped off.

That doesn't happen in early round FA Cup games, because the fans at the lower level teams know from a few decades of experience that they probably aren't getting the big club's stars in an early round game. And they make their ticket purchasing decisions with that in mind.