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Mark Cuban proposes 20-team playoff system

DerekJohnson
DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 70,369 Founders Club
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thescore.com/nba/news/795402
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  • greenblood
    greenblood Member Posts: 14,573
    The NBA playoffs are already too long, so why not add four more teams into the mix?
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  • RoadDawg55
    RoadDawg55 Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 30,622 Swaye's Wigwam
    I used to like Cuban, but over time he's gotten really annoying. Yeah Mark, I wonder why you want a few more teams in the playoffs?
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  • TierbsHsotBoobs
    TierbsHsotBoobs Member Posts: 39,680
    The NBA shouldn't even have 20 teams.
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  • RoadDawg55
    RoadDawg55 Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 30,622 Swaye's Wigwam
    I like how Cuban tries to play it off as being good for the league and helping the tanking situation. Like Philadelphia isn't going to tank because now 20 teams are allowed. Other than Denver, Portland, and maybe Minnesota, there really aren't that many teams that seem to be entering the season with the goal of tanking.
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  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,277
    If you're going to expand the playoffs in a way to discourage tanking, then the way to do it is to isolate the teams that suck, make them play in a playoff setting, put some protections in for the teams that REALLY suck to ensure that they have the best chance of getting the top picks ... but let them fight it out on the court. That way instead of having teams trading away their players at the trade deadline, they perhaps could be looking to add players.
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  • TierbsHsotBoobs
    TierbsHsotBoobs Member Posts: 39,680
    Tequilla said:

    If you're going to expand the playoffs in a way to discourage tanking, then the way to do it is to isolate the teams that suck, make them play in a playoff setting, put some protections in for the teams that REALLY suck to ensure that they have the best chance of getting the top picks ... but let them fight it out on the court. That way instead of having teams trading away their players at the trade deadline, they perhaps could be looking to add players.

    TL, DR: Contract the tanking teams
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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 70,369 Founders Club
    How about a weekly Friday Sacrifice for the NBA?
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  • Doogles
    Doogles Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 12,869 Founders Club
    What if the NBA had some sort of old school big ten rose bowl like rule where you couldn't pick in the top 3 2 years in a row?

    What's the point of tanking then?
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  • FreeChavez
    FreeChavez Member Posts: 3,223
    EPL has it right. The sixers should have been in the d-league 3 years ago, and the stampede or whatever the hell other NBDL team called up to the big show.

    You want to rid the league of tanking, start relegating teams who finish in the bottom 4 for multiple years in a row.
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