Kblaze8855
03-14-2020, 11:20 AM
This is already gonna be one of the 4 weirdest seasons ever along with 99, 2012, and 1977 when they had to fold in the ABA teams and figure out how to make it work. Lets not even shoot for normalcy.
Lets make it exciting.
On day one of the return im jumping right into the playoffs. But a modified version.
To reduce the cries of the not quite playoff teams that lost the chance to earn a spot(and in a fairly transparent effort to give the Pelicans a shot at a first round series vs the Lakers which we would all enjoy) im having 8-11 in a single elimination mock final 4 to earn a playoff spot.
Right now that gets us:
Grizzlies/Kings
Blazers/Pelicans
Magic/Bulls
Wizards/Hornets
As usual....west is must see....east is less interesting...but tournament style? First games back? You would get huge ratings. With no other sports on....Pelicans vs Blazers to advance and play for the 8th seed tomorrow night? It does numbers.
But where do you play? Empty arenas? No. Boring.
The problem is most places ban large gatherings. So....
Im playing those games in local high school gyms with tickets available via lottery among season ticket holders for half...the rest to go to local known superfans. 100 fans a team.
We get a dream team of sports personalities at the game doing sideline and covering it. Inside the NBA from the studio elsewhere. I want Bill Walton on color. I want no famous fans. I want cheering insane local fans and kids. LEts invite the basketball teams from each local school to go for free as well.
After that works out...
I dont want the playoffs to be normal from there either.
Taking it back to the 70s and 80s with short series.
3 game first round series.
5 game second round.
7 game conference finals and finals.
Imagine the chaos of Pelicans/Blazers/Grizzlies winning game 1 vs the Lakers at Lebron/Wades sons high school gym with the kids watching them fail....and game 2 is on the road...elimination game.
What kinda numbers would that do?
Wouldnt it be more exciting than a 7 game series you know the best team likely pulls out?
ITs the midpoint between the playoffs and march madness.
The 5 game series would be tense too. Weird shit happens. Like the defending champs being beaten by an actual crackhead(talented...but a crackhead):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb0bLsolTjg
The ideal situation is it takes a couple months and we get to where KD and Kyrie return to get the Bucks in a 5 game first round series....not that its realistic.
I just dont wanna see it return for a boring extended thing of closed arena games.
Its already a circus. Put on a show.
I wanna see someone eliminated in a gym with 100 of their biggest fans crying while Bill Walton is talking non sense about the grateful dead sitting on a folding chair 16 inches off the court. A 3 game series you would get all a team had to give right out of the gate. No holding back. No tomorrow.
You have a bad first half of game one you ruined your season.
The ****ing Nuggets might win the title.
Lets make it exciting.
On day one of the return im jumping right into the playoffs. But a modified version.
To reduce the cries of the not quite playoff teams that lost the chance to earn a spot(and in a fairly transparent effort to give the Pelicans a shot at a first round series vs the Lakers which we would all enjoy) im having 8-11 in a single elimination mock final 4 to earn a playoff spot.
Right now that gets us:
Grizzlies/Kings
Blazers/Pelicans
Magic/Bulls
Wizards/Hornets
As usual....west is must see....east is less interesting...but tournament style? First games back? You would get huge ratings. With no other sports on....Pelicans vs Blazers to advance and play for the 8th seed tomorrow night? It does numbers.
But where do you play? Empty arenas? No. Boring.
The problem is most places ban large gatherings. So....
Im playing those games in local high school gyms with tickets available via lottery among season ticket holders for half...the rest to go to local known superfans. 100 fans a team.
We get a dream team of sports personalities at the game doing sideline and covering it. Inside the NBA from the studio elsewhere. I want Bill Walton on color. I want no famous fans. I want cheering insane local fans and kids. LEts invite the basketball teams from each local school to go for free as well.
After that works out...
I dont want the playoffs to be normal from there either.
Taking it back to the 70s and 80s with short series.
3 game first round series.
5 game second round.
7 game conference finals and finals.
Imagine the chaos of Pelicans/Blazers/Grizzlies winning game 1 vs the Lakers at Lebron/Wades sons high school gym with the kids watching them fail....and game 2 is on the road...elimination game.
What kinda numbers would that do?
Wouldnt it be more exciting than a 7 game series you know the best team likely pulls out?
ITs the midpoint between the playoffs and march madness.
The 5 game series would be tense too. Weird shit happens. Like the defending champs being beaten by an actual crackhead(talented...but a crackhead):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb0bLsolTjg
The ideal situation is it takes a couple months and we get to where KD and Kyrie return to get the Bucks in a 5 game first round series....not that its realistic.
I just dont wanna see it return for a boring extended thing of closed arena games.
Its already a circus. Put on a show.
I wanna see someone eliminated in a gym with 100 of their biggest fans crying while Bill Walton is talking non sense about the grateful dead sitting on a folding chair 16 inches off the court. A 3 game series you would get all a team had to give right out of the gate. No holding back. No tomorrow.
You have a bad first half of game one you ruined your season.
The ****ing Nuggets might win the title.