The NBA could also be pulling a Bud Selig-esque transfer.
Shams Charania of The Athletic reported Tuesday that the NBA Board of Governors has mentioned a proposal that may contain utilizing in-season match outcomes as a tiebreaker for the precise NBA playoffs.
The primary playoff tiebreaker is at present the common season head-to-head matchup consequence between groups. However Charania notes that the league is polling GMs on the potential of utilizing the spherical to which a group advances within the in-season match as that first tiebreaker as a substitute. Different choices are reportedly on the desk too, together with utilizing the IST consequence as a lower-level tiebreaker (after the head-to-head consequence).
The NBA simply debuted the in-season match this season with the Los Angeles Lakers beating the Indiana Pacers within the December “championship” sport. Although the league added in some incentives for the gamers to take it extra critically, the in-season match looks like a distant reminiscence now with the true playoffs about to start.
On the time of the this 12 months’s match, we heard some star gamers clamor for increased stakes equivalent to an automated playoff bid for the winner. Whereas the NBA is probably not able to go fairly that far, it feels like an actual chance that future ISTs can have a hand in figuring out essential playoff seeding.