NBA Commissioner Adam Silver expressed his satisfaction with the inaugural In-Season Tournament this season, emphasizing the likelihood of some adjustments to the format before the next year.<\/p>\n
Speaking on Saturday ahead of the championship game between the Indiana Pacers<\/a> and Los Angeles Lakers<\/a>, Silver praised the positive reception of new elements like brightly painted courts and cash incentives for team success.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to thank all the players in the league, the coaches, and of course the teams for embracing this new concept,\u201d Silver stated. He highlighted his long-standing advocacy for such an event, akin to those in many soccer leagues worldwide, being added to the NBA calendar. \u201cI know it doesn\u2019t come without challenges. There\u2019s no doubt there\u2019s some things that we\u2019re learning this time through. Overall, we\u2019re thrilled with the interest we\u2019ve seen so far this season.\u201d<\/p>\n While specific changes for the next year remain uncertain, Silver mentioned that discussions might focus on potential modifications to the tiebreaker format used in group play, which included point differentials\u2014a feature disliked by many players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NBA Commissioner Adam Silver expressed his satisfaction with the inaugural In-Season Tournament this season, emphasizing the likelihood of some adjustments to the format […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":472403,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19717,17837,22030],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[19718,22031,1067],"acf":{"announce":"The NBA Commissioner mentioned possible modifications to the tiebreaker format in the groups ","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/472396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/472396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472409,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/472396\/revisions\/472409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472396"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=472396"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=472396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}