Saturday morning Woj and Zach Lowe dropped a report about potential sweeping changes to the NBA schedule, including a mostly meaningless trim down to 78 games, and a sort of dumb and irrelevant sounding play-in tournament for seeds seven-through-10 in each conference for the right to get waxed in the first round by a vastly superior team. There’s also talk of re-seeding the conference finalists, which seems like a half-baked way of trying to appease conference abolitionists. All of those ideas fall somewhere in the range between harmless and sorta dumb. But among the very important and populous faction of People Online Who Like Basketball, it’s the lone very good idea to emerge from the report that seems to be the most contentious.
The in-season tournament idea is cool, and here’s why
