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Re: NBA Lottery reform proposed at Summer League

Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 12:31 pm
by Flagrant Fowl
sunset rubdown wrote:
Ring_Wanted wrote:Speaking of changes, did you catch this?
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball- ... 45017.html
The popularity of the summer league in Las Vegas – with attendance up 25 percent, Silver said – has the league open to ideas for a greater role in the nation’s gambling capital. One possibility, mentioned without details as a brainstorm from the competition committee: A midseason tournament of some sort.
We've discussed this before, and I'd love to see such tournament.
Yep, some kind of Cup competition like in soccer/football here in Europe. That would be interesting.
I think there's too many logistical hurdles in the way for something like this to work. A tournament with more than about 10 teams couldn't be played in just a week, and a tournament like the soccer league cups couldn't be integrated into the regular season because most arenas have events scheduled months or even years in advance.