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A few Awesome Ideas

There's actually some decent ideas being thrown around. One thing that needs to be considered is the money aspect. Money and marketing drives the NBA. If you fix it, then it still has to be good and profitable.

Top 8 vote getters are your team captains. They are assigned an NBA Hall-of-Fame player as a coach/mentor. The coach/mentors and team captains then draft 5man all star teams that come from a pool of players assigned by a selection committee. Committee picks 16 front court (C and PF) players and 24 backcourt (SF, SG and PG) players. Each team gets 2 front court players and 3 backcourt players, but they can draft whoever they want until the teams are full.

Then you have a single-elimination tournament with the All-Star teams. 1 vs. 8, 2 vs. 7, 3 vs 6 and 4 vs. 5. Winning team advances AND gets to steal two players from the team they beat. 2nd round of the tournament is the same. Winners advance to the final game (on the next day) and they get to steal two players from the defeated team. Final All-star teams (that play a full game the following day) include the starting 5 of each winning team, plus 4 players added by beating their defeated opponents.

The 9 winners all get a $250 donation to the charity of their choice, while the 9 players for the losing team get a $100k donations each. That comes to a little more than $3 million in very highly publicized charitable donations for causes that mean something to those NBA All-Stars. You've got Legacy Players, the best young NBA stars, a tournament, rivalries and upsets, stealing star players from other teams and a full All-Star game to end the festivities. I think that would be fun to watch.
 
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Ellis269 said:
There's actually some decent ideas being thrown around. One thing that needs to be considered is the money aspect. Money and marketing drives the NBA. If you fix it, then it still has to be good and profitable.

Top 8 vote getters are your team captains. They are assigned an NBA Hall-of-Fame player as a coach/mentor. The coach/mentors and team captains then draft 5man all star teams that come from a pool of players assigned by a selection committee. Committee picks 16 front court (C and PF) players and 24 backcourt (SF, SG and PG) players. Each team gets 2 front court players and 3 backcourt players, but they can draft whoever they want until the teams are full.

Then you have a single-elimination tournament with the All-Star teams. 1 vs. 8, 2 vs. 7, 3 vs 6 and 4 vs. 5. Winning team advances AND gets to steal two players from the team they beat. 2nd round of the tournament is the same. Winners advance to the final game (on the next day) and they get to steal two players from the defeated team. Final All-star teams (that play a full game the following day) include the starting 5 of each winning team, plus 4 players added by beating their defeated opponents.

The 9 winners all get a $250 donation to the charity of their choice, while the 9 players for the losing team get a $100k donations each. That comes to a little more than $3 million in very highly publicized charitable donations for causes that mean something to those NBA All-Stars. You've got Legacy Players, the best young NBA stars, a tournament, rivalries and upsets, stealing star players from other teams and a full All-Star game to end the festivities. I think that would be fun to watch.
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I really like this idea, only thing i would change is get rid of the final all star game.

would nba teams be ok with their top players being potentially four extra games though?
 
fgcamel said:
I really like this idea, only thing i would change is get rid of the final all star game.

would nba teams be ok with their top players being potentially four extra games though?
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Make the early games shorter. Maybe two ten minute halves. With timeouts and in an All-Star environment that's not a huge stretch for the players, but the fans get a helluva show.
 
I've got it 3 on 3 tournaments....

All of the Allstars are put into one of three groups.. Bigs, Wings & Guards !!

Then teams are randomly picked from these three groups.

Games are played to 21 by ones win by two, if you make it you take it, street ball rules!!
 
Zulu said:
I've got it 3 on 3 tournaments....

All of the Allstars are put into one of three groups.. Bigs, Wings & Guards !!

Then teams are randomly picked from these three groups.

Games are played to 21 by ones win by two, if you make it you take it, street ball rules!!
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You would have 12 Allstars from each conference making 8 teams of 3...

Maybe the first round the games go to 11 second round to 16 and finals to 21... All games win by two!!!
 
Zulu said:
You would have 12 Allstars from each conference making 8 teams of 3...

Maybe the first round the games go to 11 second round to 16 and finals to 21... All games win by two!!!
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I like Zulu's idea, I'd watch a 3 on 3 tourny like that
 
I originally thought of a 3 on 3 tournament, but ultimately decided that it would be too difficult to get the teams matched up fairly. I really like how Zulu broke it up into Bigs, Wings and Guards. I'd rather just get the top players in the NBA regardless of conference. Keep the Hall-of-Fame player/coach/mentor idea and let them pick their teams.

If they did this, I think that they should do it with the idea of expanding it to 4-on-4 and 5-on-5 by stealing a player from the losing side each time like I suggested earlier.

I do like the play to 21 and make-it-take-it street rules to make things interesting. I think there's a lot of potential with those ideas.
 
I gotta be honest. I don't see how it is such a bad idea. To say you don't like it is one thing, but to say its the worst idea ever is crazy.

According to Collin Cowherd, We watch sports because we want to see drama. Do you really think there would not be drama in a single elimination Tournament? There would be a ton of drama. The tourney would just need to have enough incentive for the players to care. I think it would be possible to do that. And winning it would be something the players would care about. they want to win. they'd gain pride.
Ultimately, it's potentially a good idea. To say it is a terrible idea does not make sense. How is it a terrible idea. And Thee Jazz Fan, if you are going to argue the point of it being a terrible idea, please opt to employ logic over emotion. ;)
 
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Batman said:
I gotta be honest. I don't see how it is such a bad idea. To say you don't like it is one thing, but to say its the worst idea ever is crazy.

According to Collin Cowherd, We watch sports because we want to see drama. Do you really think there would not be drama in a single elimination Tournament? There would be a ton of drama. The tourney would just need to have enough incentive for the players to care. I think it would be possible to do that. And winning it would be something the players would care about. Like
Ultimately, it's potentially a good idea. To say it is a terrible idea does not make sense. How is it a terrible idea. And Thee Jazz Fan, if you are going to argue the point of it being a terrible idea, please opt to employ logic over emotion. ;)
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30 teams is even worse!!!


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The idea of the All Star game and events is still good. If you want a tournament, only have the top players participate. That way it doesn't get watered down.
 
Ellis269 said:
The idea of the All Star game and events is still good. If you want a tournament, only have the top players participate. That way it doesn't get watered down.
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I see some value to the idea. Zulu made a good point with the 3 on 3 talk.
 
The other thing that I like about the 3-on-3 tournament, is that it's pretty common to see that here, but not elsewhere. I'd love to see the US push the idea of 3-on-3 and 4-on-4 as legitimate competition. Watching the last summer Olympics, I wondered why someone doesn't push 3-on-3 as an Olympic sport. Basketball is one of the huge draws, but it only gets one tournament and one medal. If the NBA used the 3-on-3, 4-on-4, 5-on-5 tourney format that I suggested, I bet it would make the concept more popular outside of the US as well.
 
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