Adam Silver only recently took over as the NBA commissioner from David Stern but he already has a ton of ideas and possible changes. In addition to his quest to raise the NBA age limit, he’s also considering a tournament to determine playoff spots.
via Yahoo Sports:
The idea of a late-season, single-elimination tournament to determine the eighth and final team to make the playoffs in each conference has been forwarded in the past by Grantland’s Bill Simmons, but Silver apparently once floated a similar idea while he was deputy commissioner, and in echoing an idea that had been mentioned more than once during the two-day Sloan conference, he expressed interest in the possibility of moving some portion of the postseason away from full series and toward a win-or-go-home format.
“By having a seven-game series, you reduce the randomness of the outcome,” Silver said. “I think what’s so exciting about college basketball — and I’m a huge college basketball fan — is the single-elimination tournament, the NCAA tournament. There, statistically, you’re gonna have a lot more upsets. So, I think for us, well, I have mixed views […] In case of certain teams where star players were injured for a portion of the season or the team didn’t jell until later in the season, that team can become competitive. Right? I like that idea.”
