TheEmirates NBA Cupis an exciting addition to the regularNBAseason, aiming to enhance fan engagement during the early part of the season and generate additional revenue for the league. All 30NBAteams will participate in the tournament, which is divided into six pools of five teams each. These ...
The league began itsinaugural in-season tournamenton Nov. 3, with all 30 teams having an opportunity to win the NBA Cup and cash prizes. The addition of the tournament drew mixed reactions from fans on social media when the league officially unveiled the format in July after months of specul...
heNBA's latest innovation, the In-Season Tournament, has so far been a success with teams continuing to play competitive basketball as they bid to win an extra trophy, but as the competition enters its final phase, how does it work? It began with group games, of six groups with five te...
The NBA's play-in tournament has concluded with four teams emerging from the eight-team field to secure spots for the 2024 playoffs. Initially implemented during the 2020-21 NBA season, the play-in tournament expanded the NBA's postseason to 20 teams (10 from each conference). The top six...
The NBA's play-in tournament adds a fascinating wrinkle to the end of the regular season and the start of the postseason. Teams were already less incentivized to tank games down the stretch because ofthe flattened lottery odds instituted in 2019. Now that the top 10 teams in the...
The tournament was devised by the NBA as a way to keep games competitive throughout the length of the entire season by giving teams in the middle of the pack a longer window to make a move and win a spot in the playoffs. By doing so, the tournament also provided the added benefit of...
The NBA Cup is back — the specialized courts, the Statement Edition uniforms, the fretting over point differential (and a few teams running up the score), and eventually a champion crowned in Las Vegas. After a successful first season, the NBA’s in-season tourn...
Over the course of the past three years, in which football-driven realignment and money grabs have sent the collegiate ecosystem into a topsy-turvy fight, men’s college basketball persists as a sinewy secondary character in a melodrama that feels as muc
The play-in is stacked with stars this season: LeBron James, Stephen Curry and Joel Embiid among them.
Riot Games is a North American video game publisher, developer, and eSports tournament organizer founded by Marc Merrill and Brandon Beck in 2006.Riot Games generates the bulk of company revenue through in-game purchases, with these microtransactions ear