NBA world cup style

that would be so much fun.

Biggest sport in the World has had time to figure things out. There's a lot I wished we did like futbol

It would definitely be fun, but i don't think it's really fair to the Bucks or Lakers if they were to draw a group of say the Celtics, Rockets/Sixers, Mavericks, Blazers.

Would be better then March Madness. Imagine our Pelicans upsetting a few teams and winding up in the final 8.

It wasn't fair for AD and RP to force their way to LA either. Im not saying that they should face tough competition in the first round but I also could care less if they did.

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Would be better then March Madness. Imagine our Pelicans upsetting a few teams and winding up in the final 8.

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With a 4 team group and 6 game sample size, it wouldn't be remotely surprising for the Pels to crack a top 2 just based on randomness of the sample size.

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That's not how it would work the way KOC laid it out in the article.

There would be 5 tiers of 4 teams based on record, with tier 1 being the the 4 best teams and tier 5 being the 4 worst. A random draw would pull 1 team from each tier into 4 5-team groups

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Don't make it random. Let the best overall record pick their group (with the same rules: 1 per tier).

2nd best record gets to pick from the remaining teams, and so on.

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Add more drama to it:

Don't make it random. Let the best overall record pick their group (with the same rules: 1 per tier).

2nd best record gets to pick from the remaining teams, and so on.

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Yeah this has been mentioned. If it was televised it would get huge ratings.

And some serious bad blood between teams.

Have the best record pick from tier 2. then let the tier 2 teams pick their tier 3 teams, etc.

what i love about the NBA playoffs, is that the best team will always win the series. they might not be the most talented team, but the best team, players and coaches, will win. How teams adjust after each game is what makes the NBA playoffs great.
I don't like the idea of the groups b/c it isn't fair to the top teams, even though i hate the Lakers and want them to fail miserably, it would not be fair if they were to be in a group of say the Celtics, Sixers, Mavs, Blazers. playing group stages like that doesn't allow teams to really focus on their opponent and game plan for them, and that's what makes the playoffs so much different than the regular season, and it's why the Rockets can win 50 games every year and then choke in the playoffs every year, b/c their shtick doesn't work when you play a 7 game series and their opponent has time to break them down and devise gameplans against them.


What i think should happen is this.
Let the top 7 teams from the west, which all have a winning record, play a round robin against each other. that will get them to 70 games, and it will help decide seeding while letting them warm up. Let the rest of the west teams minus the Twolves and Warriors, who can stay at home for the rest of the season, play a round robin playing each other twice, so each team plays 10 games, and best record gets the 8 seed, best record being their overall record, not the 10 game record. I eliminated the Warriors and TWolves b/c playing 10 games still doesn't allow them a chance to make the 8 seed.

East is a little trickier b/c their non playoff teams are terrible and have no business fighting for the 8 seed. I would say just take the top 8 teams and let them play each other and let the seedings fall where they fall with their top 8. I guess if you want to let the Wizards join the group, that's fine. I guess the rule would be if you're not withing 6 games of making the playoffs, you can't play.

Then start the playoffs as normal. Everyone got to play meaningful basketball, and we got some entertainment from the teams trying to make the 8 seed in the west.
All the games need to be nationally televised, and they need to figure out how to split all the money to make the local markets happy that didn't get their 70 games broadcasted.