The NBA will continue to look at making calendar changes for the 2021-22 season, but no vote on the matter will take place at the Board of Governors meeting this April, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN.
The NBA is proposing a midseason tournament and a shortening of the season to 78 games.
NBA has informed teams that it will continue to take long look at changes to NBA calendar, but will no longer take a vote of the NBA's Board of Governors in April, sources tell ESPN.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) January 17, 2020
The NBA also has had interest in reseeding the final four teams in the playoffs based on seed instead of by conference, which has been met with more serious resistance from teams.
The NBA wants to continue studying how these measures can be planned in the best way possible and monetized long-term.
Commissioner Adam Silver has been driving the in-season tournament cup modeled after European soccer. However, it appears teams in the NBA aren’t too fond of this idea, according to ESPN’s Zach Lowe:
“I think it certainly, of all the big proposals, is the one that has been met with the most skepticism from teams.” Lowe said on ESPN radio. “It centers around, ‘Is anyone going to care about this? Are we, teams, going to care about this?’
“I get that. What is in it for them and the NBA, as you said, is counting on the organic momentum of this as long as it sticks around for long enough, it will sort of by default come to mean something. I guess that can be true? I actually sort of believe in that kind of organic momentum for events and things like that.”
Teams are reluctant to take short-term losses on losing two home dates to accommodate the tournament, especially when those games can be worth between $3 million and $4 million for the most profitable big market teams, league sources told Wojnarowski.
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