The NBA regular season could be in for a major overhaul very soon.
According to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski and Zach Lowe the NBA, NBPA, and its television partners are in discussions to make sweeping changes to the regular and postseasons.
The changes, which would go into effect in 2021-22, the 75th anniversary of the NBA, are in discussions to be voted on in April 2020.
Details of the changes include reducing the regular season from 82 games to 78, having an in-season 30 team tournament, a reseeding of the four conference finalists, and a postseason play-in.
According to Wojnarowski and Lowe, the reseeding of teams in the semifinal round based on regular-season record could give the NBA a championship series that includes its best two teams.
Additionally, according to the report pre-knockout round games would be part of the regular-season schedule. Six divisional winners that are based on home and road records in the group stage — and the two teams with the next-best records would advance to a single-elimination knockout round.
These changes are obviously significantly intricate and fairly extensive to work through from a logistics standpoint as the NBA and those involved continue to discuss the changes.
The NBPA would have to agree to the changes and according to the report those talks are still ongoing with NBPA executive director Michele Roberts.
Obviously, these changes are dramatic and would change the entire landscape of the NBA, its teams, and according to Wojnarowski and Lowe the talks to make these changes are extremely serious.
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