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

[Based Lord Zedd]

Because it is only 7 games and it is done.
Every team in history has won at least 9 games in a full season.

It isn't random games, the groups are seeded and then it's playoffs against increasingly stiff competition. The odds that a bottom 10 team wins this are low. Vegas reflects this.

And if we accept the argument that it's just 7 games and any team can win it, why is that enough to give someone a playoff spot? For just 7 games anyone could've won?

 

[Unbothered]

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?

All-star voting is different. Players already established themselves as an all-star caliber player by mid-season and besides it's an individual award that doesn't count towards anything.

You can't award a team a playoff spot before the mid-season break, playoff spots should be awarded at the end of the season as the playoff and championship-contending teams have already separated themselves from the pack. Teams 7-10 all are within range of each other, either a few games above .500 or sitting right at .500, so it makes sense for them to compete at season's end.

You don't want a team that finished between 20-33 wins making the playoffs over a team that finished around 40-45 wins. That messes up everything and no sports league has ever done that. The NBA would be a fool to implement that.

The only way this idea of an automatic playoff spot makes since is if the league expands the playoff seeding from 16 teams to 20 but that's a nother conversation and even then it just further goes against the play-in tournament which means you'd might as well eliminate that.

Would you rather have the in-season tournament or the play-in tournament?

The play-in makes sense as the incentive is basically an end of season do or die situation to get one of the final two spots but the in-season tournament and it's incentives and proposed ideas just are too complicated to implement.

 

[concise]

All-star voting is different. Players already established themselves as an all-star caliber player by mid-season and besides it's an individual award that doesn't count towards anything.

You can't award a team a playoff spot before the mid-season break, playoff spots should be awarded at the end of the season as the playoff and championship-contending teams have already separated themselves from the pack. Teams 7-10 all are within range of each other, either a few games above .500 or sitting right at .500, so it makes sense for them to compete at season's end.

You don't want a team that finished between 20-33 wins making the playoffs over a team that finished around 40-45 wins. That messes up everything and no sports league has ever done that. The NBA would be a fool to implement that.

The only way this idea of an automatic playoff spot makes since is if the league expands the playoff seeding from 16 teams to 20 but that's a nother conversation and even then it just further goes against the play-in tournament which means you'd might as well eliminate that.

Would you rather have the in-season tournament or the play-in tournament?

The play-in makes sense as the incentive is basically an end of season do or die situation to get one of the final two spots but the in-season tournament and it's incentives and proposed ideas just are too complicated to implement.

All Star voting starts well before midseason and all votes are weighted the same.

Teams that win less 40, 41 games are just there to make up the numbers, just the same as a team that would win 25 to 35 games.


The in-season tournament only seems confusing because they rushed it this year.

 

[CBSkyline]

The winner of the NBA Cup should receive automatic qualification to the CONCACAB Champions League

 

[Blessings]

Winner gets a guaranteed top5 pick

 

[Tres Leches]

playoff spot or high draft pick

 

[Luke Cage]

I'm Imagining a nba team getting a playoff spot after this tournament, then tanking the rest of the season to also get the number one seed. Then going on a playoff run and winning it all. would be terrible for the sport.

 

[Black Excellence]

For the futbol fans, was there equal amount of discourse when they started all the different in season tournaments?

I know there’s different leagues for different countries but idk if it’s multiple tournaments during the season or just one big tournament like the World Cup.

 

[concise]

 

[Damnshow]

No you don't give in season tournament winner a playoff spot. This is ridiculous.

Give the winners a 1st pick from 2nd round. That would be more than enough.

 

[H.J.Duck]

When I first heard about the in-season tournament I actually thought the winners were gonna get a lottery pick or at least something

 

[Cladyclad]

Either homecourt or a auto playoff spot. The fans need something. Hell i would give the loser homecourt in the 1st round of the playoffs

 

[Elim Garak]

To me it makes sense.

 

[Fortunate Lee]

They basically play 7 games..that's not enough to deserve a playoff spot.

You can go 26-56 and still be in the playoffs because you had a hot streak in November and December

Ridiculous of course

 

[kidmakaveli]

When I first heard about the in-season tournament I actually thought the winners were gonna get a lottery pick or at least something

That’s what I would do

Weighted picks so percentages are all equal. Winner added to the lotto so 15 teams at 6.7 percent each.