NBA Cup Winner should get an automatic playoff spot. Y/N?

[CP3.]

Let the winning team get a piece of Brittany Renner or Laura Pippen

They probably already have.

 

[UpAndComing]

Hell no to playoff spot lol. Not realistic

It should be something like the best players on the team get more All Star votes for the All Star game

Or the best players on the team get more MVP votes

 

[Voice of Reason]

I saw someone on social media say it should be n automatic tiebreaker and I agree with that being a good enough incentive.


I also saw a suggestion that the winner should be able to go up or down 1 spot in the seedings at the end.


I think both of these suggestions are smart enough.

 

[MJ Truth]

And if they don’t, the team can easily move that player to win-now when the time comes.

Again, let’s not act like that shyt hasn’t happened before.

Then that defeats the whole purpose of what you were talking about.

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

Then that defeats the whole purpose of what you were talking about.

Does it though? It's an extra first round pick that the winning team can use for however they see fit. Other posters made my comment into more than it was by making theoretical assumptions a guarantee that it would happen.

 

[Lakerman0834]

You get the NBA cupno different than Carabao lol

Carabao cup more prestigious than this trash tourney. It’s gonna be hilarious all the announcers going to talk about this tourney like it was amazing no matter what happens

 

[FukkaPaidEmail]

mid-tier Lottery odds should 100% be used as an incentive along with that money .

 

[MustafaSTL]

I’ve seen a theory for extra incentive that I’m with:

The NBA Cup winner gets to have the ultimate tie breaker for playoff seeding or for play in. Would matter a lot if tied between 4 or 5 and Cup winner has tie breaker to get home court. Or between 6 and 7 seeds and get playoff tie breaker.

 

[Black Hans]

NBA just copying soccer to gain interest in early season play during football season. It's all marketing. Maybe a guarantee lottery pick?

 

[DjMe]

just LOOK at this fukkin schedule for when "tournament" games are:

• Friday, Nov. 3
• Friday, Nov. 10
• Tuesday, Nov. 14
• Friday, Nov. 17
• Tuesday, Nov. 21
• Friday, Nov. 24
• Tuesday, Nov. 28

So take those rainbow courts apart and put them in storage for a week, so the nba can return to... playing games of the same value on differently painted courts because they're not tournament games that count exactly the same in the standings.

For all astroturfing marketers on here: kill yourselves, your shyt is trash and worthless.
For anyone with any ideas on how to actually improve this shyt--send them to the Saudis.
NBA is ripe to be fukking sniped out of existence by literally any basketball league that has the funding to compete.

 

[Unbothered]

That's a terrible idea.

If the team that wins the tournament is awarded an automatic playoff spot but happens to finish the season 15-20 games below .500 that means a more deserving team who finished with a better record won't qualify for the playoffs since it's only 8 seeds.

But then you'll have a team that finished better missing the playoffs because there will only be 7 seeds left since the in-season tournament winner took one.

Plus that'll just defeat the purpose of the play-in tournament. Unless the NBA expands the playoff seeding from 8 to either 9 or 10 seeds which is a whole nother conversation.

As previously stated above

Awarding an automatic playoff spot just defeats the purpose of the play-in tournament and messes up the current 8 seeded playoff structure because if the in-season tournament winner finishes the season 10-15 games below. 500, it just ruins the whole playoff structure in itself...

Sure if you're a fan of a crappy team (Charlotte, Detroit, Washington, etc) yeah you'd want that but for those of us who are fans of good/great playoff and championship-caliber teams, it's an awful idea because of some of the aforementioned reasons.

This is why I don't believe that this tournament will last 3-5 seasons from now because it's hard and confusing to create incentives and reasons as to why it's different and more important than being just another regular season which in reality is all this truly is in the grand scheme.

 

[Kaypain]

I really don't see the point of this tourney, only thing you get is $$ if you win

How about just good competitive product?

 

[concise]

NBA just copying soccer to gain interest in early season play during football season. It's all marketing. Maybe a guarantee lottery pick?

And since they're copying soccer, cups have to lead to something.
Last year's EPL saw West Ham finish 14th, way out of the normal spots that would lead to European football ... but they won Europa Conference, now they're playing Europa League ... and if they win that, they will play Champions League next season and don't have to finish in the automatic top 4 spots.

As previously stated above

Awarding an automatic playoff spot just defeats the purpose of the play-in tournament and messes up the current 8 seeded playoff structure because if the in-season tournament winner finishes the season 10-15 games below. 500, it just ruins the whole playoff structure in itself...

Sure if you're a fan of a crappy team (Charlotte, Detroit, Washington, etc) yeah you'd want that but for those of us who are fans of good/great playoff and championship-caliber teams, it's an awful idea because of some of the aforementioned reasons.

This is why I don't believe that this tournament will last 3-5 seasons from now because it's hard and confusing to create incentives and reasons as to why it's different than being just another regular season which in reality is all this truly is in the grand scheme.

Bad 8 seed teams get put out in 4 or 5 most of the time, so I don't see what the problem is.

If some 10th place team misses the play-in because the 12th place team won the trophy, is that really a travesty? They should have played better in the tournament to win or played better throughout the season to get top 6! Nobody cried for the Warriors when they lost their 8 seed in 2021, or the Cavs and Clippers in 2022.

 

[Unbothered]

Bad 8 seed teams get put out in 4 or 5 most of the time, so I don't see what the problem is.

If some 10th place team misses the play-in because the 12th place team won the trophy, is that really a travesty? They should have played better in the tournament to win or played better throughout the season to get top 6! Nobody cried for the Warriors when they lost their 8 seed in 2021, or the Cavs and Clippers in 2022.

...because that's the play-in tournament, it makes sense teams 7-10 battling for the final playoff spots.

The play-in tournament begins at the end of the regular season so teams 7-10 have already established themselves and earned the right to be in that position of competing for the final two playoff spots.

The in-season tournament is way too early into the season to award a team an automatic playoff bid when by season's end the team that won the tournament record ain't up to par with more deserving teams fighting for the last two playoff seeds.

Imagine a Detroit Pistons team winning the tournament but finishes the season with a 20-30 win total and making the playoffs with that record...you're just messing up the structure of the playoff seeding.

The '21 warriors, '22 Cavs, and Clippers had finished the regular season a few games above or sitting right at .500 so despite losing, it made sense competing as they already established a winning regular season record.

 

[concise]

...because that's the play-in tournament, it makes sense teams 7-10 battling for the final playoff spots.

The play-in tournament begins at the end of the regular season so teams 7-10 have already played better and earned to be in that position of competing for the final two playoff spots.

The in-season tournament is way too early into the season to award a team an automatic playoff bid when by season's end the team's record ain't up to par with more deserving teams fighting for the last two playoff seeds.

You could argue the other way, those teams, especially 9 and 10 seeds far behind 7 and 8, have already proven themselves to be average or terrible over a whole season. So what is really the point of that?





But I don't think this is "too early" because we already have the All-Star Game as a great example of using things from early in the season as a reward.



Yes, All-Star voting.


All-Star voting last year started December 20 and ended January 21.

Is that too early to figure out who the best players are for the season? To start counting votes before the halfway mark, based on what guys did in the first 6 to 8 weeks of the season? And votes on December 21 count just as much as votes on January 16th, don't they?