NBA State of Play – Rule Changes – Trends – CBA – Schedule Reform – Load Mgmt – etc

https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb-playoffs-new-format-nba-reseeding-053243801.html

"It introduces incremental incentives. There’s incentive to be the best team in a league, not simply a division winner, because top seeds earn first-round byes.

There’s incentive to win your division, even if you can’t reach that top seed, because doing so earns you three home games in a three-game, first-round series.

If you can’t win your division, there’s incentive to finish with the top record among wild cards, which earns you three first-round home games as well. The alternative is zero.

And of course, there’s incentive to make the playoffs – which, after expansion, would become a realistic goal for a supermajority of the league, even as the season reaches its August-September home stretch.

Because of those incremental incentives, expansion doesn’t render the regular season meaningless. It just spreads meaning far and wide, distributing it throughout the standings, creating new playoff races in new places, all while maintaining the traditional ones. Because no two playoff berths would be equal."

i think most of these types of pieces and proposals have the cart way ahead of the horse. philosophically the north american sports need to decide for themselves what they want to regular season to mean and what they want the playoffs to mean.

i hate all of these calls from like 2:12 on and the style of play they encourage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOTGrk3ypN0

what kind of sadist put together 8 minutes of trae young drawing touch fouls

its amazing that it took 100+ years of basketball before guys realized if you just stop and shoot while going around a screen the trailing defender will run into you

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan said she has talked with NBA commissioner Adam Silver and is "pretty optimistic" about landing an expansion franchise. https://t.co/JUVSYgnjT5

— NBA on ESPN (@ESPNNBA) January 8, 2021

nice, long long overdue

excited to see this nba, is smart to expand. there is so much talent they can easily accommodate an extra 30 players. if they dont abandon divisions, they shd at least do four 8-team divisions imo.

I wonder who would get the 32nd team. Jacksonville? Baltimore?

vegas

The Vegas Gamblers

wld be cool to do a gambling themed name, the whales, the high rollers...

the sharks

seattle and vegas would be awesome. im kinda bummed about expansion tho. 30 was always a good number to me. if anything i thought they should contract a couple teams and move a couple others to seattle and vegas.

lol stumping for basketball is probably the only thing failed mayor Jenny Durkan can do that won’t make people yell at her at this point

Expand to 48 and do an upper and lower division with relegation and promotion

that wld be sick

there's already not enough elite players to fill the league but whatever i'm down for more basketball

ppl seem to think that maybe louisville or nashville would be in play for the other spot. nashville apparently tried to get the raptors this season. tampa would also be in play given this season

just looked at metro area populations and the biggest ones w/o teams in order are san diego tampa baltimore vegas and austin tho the nba im sure looks at a larger area than that like all those places except vegas have teams fairly close, but they all also do have successful teams in other sports too

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_statistical_areas

I wonder who would get the 32nd team. Jacksonville? Baltimore?

― Fetchboy, Friday, January 8, 2021 2:54 PM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

would love it if they brought basketball back to st. louis

yeah wld support that

actually missed st louis shd be in the middle of my list

and does not have a nearby team too

i've heard vancouver (though that may be more of a wishful thinking thing), louisville, nashville, and vegas.

i'm pretty agnostic on expansion, great for the cities that get teams but the league will dilute for a bit.

goon we don't want a st. louis team because jayson tatum will want to play there!

hmm mb youre right

yeah but not for a while since they'll be a low-talent expansion team

come back to Vancouver NBA (silver reads this thread right)

NASHVILLE

wonder what the nba looks for in an expansion city, a state of the art arena is obvs at the top of the list but past that im not sure, there must be some demographic profile or whatever

im assuming vegas has the arena considering they just got a hockey team

growing population and not a declining one

just throw another on in LA

from listening to various podcasts the main thing is having an ownership group who is willing/able to pay the money for a team and bring it to city x. kansas city built a nice arena some years ago hoping it would attract a team but no billionaire was inclined to take a team there

wld think you could always find someone to buy in but i guess not

lot easier to find a buyer for something turnkey but starting from scratch is a whole different beast.

The municipality should buy the team imo, Seattle could float a bond measure to pay the expansion fee and it’d probably pass lol

otm

they mayor should be the gm and get voted out if they suck

wonder what the nba looks for in an expansion city, a state of the art arena is obvs at the top of the list but past that im not sure, there must be some demographic profile or whatever

― lag∞n, Friday, January 8, 2021 3:45 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

basically-- nba-ready arena, the type of economy that can fill luxury boxes, and someone with 2 billion dollars who wants a team there.

they should pass a law called "bezos give us $2.5B in sonic bucks or we blow your head off"

tampa is the largest market w/o an nba team incl seattle fyi. but they have that dgaf florida fanbase so idk.

they should pass a law called "bezos give us $2.5B in sonic bucks or we blow your head off"

― trans-panda express (m bison), Friday, January 8, 2021 4:12 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

put it on the ballot

w/ OKC i heard it explained as like... they got a team bcuz clay bennett's ownership group had the money to buy a team and wanted to put it in OKC & stern decided to make it happen. but it's not like OKC was identified as the single most desired location for a new NBA team

didnt he promise not to move them to okc at some point

yeah clay bennett and the okc business community really put on the full-court press to get a team. they had the track record of the hornets season there which could have helped selling the nba on okc as a good market. also it's one of those places with more money than ppl think.

sorta indifferent-to-against expansion but seattle and vegas would be cool

yeah im prob against expansion for expansions sake but seattle 500% needs a team and might as well do another to keep the numbers even

my opinion is that more teams is good

more teams = more hoops = more 2 luv