The NBA in-season tournament kicked off last night – and will provide us slightly different vibes for the rest of November.
The tournament is an attempt to jazz up the beginning of the regular season with new courts and an extra trophy. NBA fans have already accused the league of thrusting unnecessary meaning onto the tournament games – which also count as regular season games – by marketing them as part of a separate championship.
But the tournament isn’t just lipstick on a few regular-season pigs. (It is, however, an excuse to slather green lipstick all over the parquet pig that is the Celtics’ new alternate court.