If Grant gets let go after a Chinese dinner, I think we may have a clue to the true identity of Batman.
[taken from Reddit. Just an overview how this tournament will work. Also I hate mavs are w nuggets, clippers, new orleans]
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NBA In-Season Tournament for Dummies (and Bones Hyland)
The NBA In-Season tournament starts today. The tournament has two distinct parts: the group stage and the bracket stage. There are 3 groups of 5 teams per conference that were selected before the season started. The group stage is round robin format - every team in each group plays every other team in the group once. The winners of each group advance to the bracket stage. Since there are only 3 groups per conference, a wildcard team (the “best of the rest”) is promoted to the final bracket slot in each conference. The bracket is single elimination and plays out like any other bracket tournament. All games count toward the regular season except the final East vs West championship game on Dec 9th.
Where you might be confused:
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How do they fit this in with the regular season? - This season has 82 games per team as usual but with only 80 games already set in stone (date and opponent decided). The group stage games are woven into the first ~20 games of the schedule and the last ~60 games after Dec. 9th are set and not affected by the tournament. Every team currently has 2 games where the opponent is TBD (Example schedule). If you’re in the bracket tournament, you play the bracket opponents. If you didn’t qualify or get knocked out, you’ll play “make-up” games against other teams not in the tourny. Every team will play two games over the course of the tournament that count toward the regular season so that every team has 82 at the end.
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What do the winners get? - Every player in the bracket tournament gets a flat cash bonus depending on how far their team goes. The bracket champ gets 500k per player and runner up gets 250k per player. There are smaller bonuses for the other bracket finishes. There’s also a trophy and some individual honors.
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When is the tournament? - Group play starts tonight! Group stage games happen on “tournament nights” and are played on unique courts - they should be hard to miss. Every Friday from today to December is a tournament night. After next Tuesday, every Tuesday will also be a tournament night. Then from Dec. 4th through the 9th the bracket stage plays out.
That’s it, best of luck to all the contenders!
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Also they announced coaches will win money too.
I was a lifelong Democrat until I saw this:
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Charlotte announcers sound so giddy whenever the Bobhornets have a lead.
POR might not end up that terrible if they continue to play MEM every night
Hornets down 3 w 8.4 seconds left get called for a 5 second violation trying to inbound.
I went to HS with the lead announcer Eric Collins. Had the gift of gab even back then.
Why would you do that when you play for Dallas?
I mean, playing against Dallas that’s hilarious, but you generally don’t want to piss off your own fans.
He is corny. Score was 86 - 86 and he said restaurant workers took note.
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He clearly doesn’t understand how much Dallas hates Philly. Did he wear a Yankees jersey in Boston.
I get the troll but I agree it’s going to annoy a lot of people.
He’s a hardcore Eagles fan.
I fully support him. Fans like to bitch about players only playing sports for the money and not being fans themselves/lack of loyalty, but then get mad at stuff like this. On the flip side, fans also call out people for moving to a new city and immediately dropping their old team (or rooting for two teams).
I’ve got to say League Pass has magically transformed and works great on the devices it was absolute crap on just days ago. I hope this keeps up, this is easily worth it if it does.
10-15 mins and im usually good to go
https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1721705965924270168
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