The NBA, led by Adam Silver, always tries to give a twist to a business that hasn’t stopped growing in recent years. With that intention, they are going to implement a tournament in the middle of the season, which has nothing to do with the less and less competitive All-Star. It is a playoff championship with a Final Four in which all the NBA teams would participate and which will be held between December 7 and 9 of this year in Las Vegas.
The news was announced by ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, who describes the new championship as the Season Tournament Final Four, and which would be inspired by the success of the ACB’s Copa del Rey model.
ESPN publishes that “all the teams will participate in the group stage, which will consist of six groups in total, three per conference, and chosen by random draw based on the winning percentage of the teams in the previous season. Each team will play four matches in their group, with the six group winners proceeding to the knockout phase, along with two wild cards who finished with the best winning percentage and not top of their groups.Knockout phase matches will be single-elimination until the final “.
In addition, it has been known that the statistics of this mid-season ‘NBA Cup’ will count for the regular season except the final and each player on the champion team will earn $500,000. Full details of the new NBA Final Four will be revealed Saturday night in Las Vegas on ESPN’s “NBA Today.”
In that historic broadcast will participate the commissioner Adam Silver, the number 1 Victor Wembanyama, Paolo Banchero and Cade Cunningham, and the All-Star players Anthony Edwards and Trae Young.
