Woj: NBA and NBPA Serious Discussions About Reseeding and In-season Tournament

[Roscoe P. Coltrane]

75 games and change the playoffs to the best 16 teams in the playoffs regardless of conference.

[Seventyniner]

75 games and change the playoffs to the best 16 teams in the playoffs regardless of conference.

I'm totally with you on the last part. I don't see much difference between 75 and 82 though.

My idea to keep players healthy and sidestep the load management stuff is to expand the roster to 18 and only allow each player to appear in 66 games. Forced load management on everyone.

[ZeusWillJudge]

That makes sense but I read it as a tournament for all teams

It says for all teams. It also says you could have an NBA Finals between two teams from the same conference. I don't have room on the page to get into all the "what if" scenarios, but if they're asking us to vote I vote No.

They said that the tourney would help make up for the loss of lucrative home games. I think they ought to divide up the teams by market size. The largest market teams would have fewer home games, and the smaller market teams would have more home games. That would be great for revenue sharing, plus level out the playing field since big markets buy more players.

[ducks]

Make it 100 games load management anyhow
Now like crazy for 82
They want the bigger salaries make them play the minutes
Better health tech now days
If players would stay off steriods less likely injury

[UZER]

These changes always revolve around the Lakers. When they were struggling in 2002 after 3peating, they went from 5 to 7 first round series MIDSEASON to make sure the best team wins to avoid upsets.

Now both LA teams are favorites, so the NBA wants them to meet in the finals. Stern always said his dream finals matchup was the Lakers vs the Lakers. Silver is baby Stern.