2020-21 NBA season changes include play-in tournament for 7th and 8th playoff seeds

[insidehoops]

MAJOR important news today. Read every word of this:

NBA season structure and format changes for 2020-21 (http://www.insidehoops.com/nba-season-structure-changes-2020-111720.shtml)

[Kiddlovesnets]

The Warriors and Rockets may need to go through the play-in tournament to make it to the playoffs first round, crazy isn’t it?
:eek:

[LAmbruh]

I like it


Time to spice the reg season up :applause:

[fourkicks44]

When is training camp?

[bison]

There is more inter conference games than intra conference games in terms of proportion compared to a normal 82 game season. Statistically this gives a slight advantage to western conference teams to boost their records a bit.

[rawimpact]

Stop being a dick OP


Earlier today, the NBA Board of Governors unanimously approved a proposal to implement a playoff Play-In Tournament on a one-year basis for the 2020-21 season. The Play-In Tournament, which will take place after the regular season and before the first round of the playoffs, will include the teams with the seventh-highest through the tenth-highest winning percentages in each conference.

The teams with the seventh-highest and eighth-highest winning percentages in each conference will each have two opportunities to win one game to earn a playoff spot. The teams with the ninth-highest and tenth-highest winning percentages in each conference will each have to win two consecutive games to earn a playoff spot.

At the conclusion of the regular season, the team with the seventh-highest winning percentage in each conference will host the team with the eighth-highest winning percentage in its conference in a Play-In Game (the “Seven-Eight Game”). The winner of the Seven-Eight Game in each conference will be the seventh seed in the playoffs for its conference.

The team with the ninth-highest winning percentage in each conference will host the team with the tenth-highest winning percentage in its conference in a Play-In Game (the “Nine-Ten Game”). The loser of the Seven-Eight Game will host the winner of the Nine-Ten Game in a Play-In Game, and the winner of that game will be the eighth seed in the playoffs for its conference.


I like the competition prior to the real competition. Makes for good games and better product overall.

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