NBA In-Season Tournament starts tomorrow so here is a thread of the basics:
Format: All 30 teams in the NBA compete in it. They are split into 3 group of 5 in their conference.
3 Eastern Conference groups (A,B,C)
3 Western Conference groups (A,B,C)
Group play next up ⬇️
Format: All 30 teams in the NBA compete in it. They are split into 3 group of 5 in their conference.
3 Eastern Conference groups (A,B,C)
3 Western Conference groups (A,B,C)
Group play next up ⬇️
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Every team in their group plays everyone once, round robin style. This leaves 4 games in group play for every team.
Best record in each group moves into bracket play, 6 teams, tie breaker being point differential.
Bonus team + bracket format next ⬇️
Each conference has one wild card team make it. This is the best record among teams who did not win their group, point differential tie breaker again.
Bracket play:
We now have 8 teams. 4 west 4 east. Just like playoffs they are on opposing sides.
Bracket play cont’d ⬇️
The 1 and 2 seed will host their opponents in the first bracket play game, win or be eliminated.
The 4 winners of those games move onto the semifinals where we head to Vegas.
Winners of the semifinals meet in the final for the NBA cup and 500k for all players
Bonus info next⬇️
All games and stats are counted to the regular season record excluding the championship game.
Teams who do not make it to Vegas will play games against other teams who also did not make it in order to keep all teams playing 82 games in total in the regular season.
Ending ⬇️
Hope this helped and enjoy the games!