The NBA could also be pulling a Bud Selig-esque transfer.
Shams Charania of The Athletic reported Tuesday that the NBA Board of Governors has mentioned a proposal that will contain utilizing in-season event outcomes as a tiebreaker for the precise NBA playoffs.
The primary playoff tiebreaker is presently the common season head-to-head matchup outcome between groups. However Charania notes that the league is polling GMs on the potential for utilizing the spherical to which a crew advances within the in-season event as that first tiebreaker as a substitute. Different choices are reportedly on the desk too, together with utilizing the IST outcome as a lower-level tiebreaker (after the head-to-head outcome).
The NBA simply debuted the in-season event this season with the Los Angeles Lakers beating the Indiana Pacers within the December “championship” recreation. Although the league added in some incentives for the gamers to take it extra critically, the in-season event looks like a distant reminiscence now with the true playoffs about to start.
On the time of the this yr’s event, we heard some star gamers clamor for larger stakes akin to an computerized playoff bid for the winner. Whereas the NBA will not be able to go fairly that far, it seems like an actual risk that future ISTs may have a hand in figuring out essential playoff seeding.
