Live Bar, January 21 news recently, NBA vice president Mark Tatum talked about NBA preparations for the mid-season championship when receiving an interview.
Mark Tatum said: “We are making progress. All discussions on the centralized tournament are positive. This involves many stakeholders and all subsequent issues must be solved, but I think we are taking all the right steps to get all the right feedback. At present, there is a great momentum in increasing the mid-season championships. The holding time may be before Christmas.”
In addition, Tatum said that the follow-up issues of holding the mid-season championship included shortening the schedule of 82 regular season matches. At present, the league has not yet reached an agreement with the players’ union on this matter. But in the conversation between the general managers and the Alliance office, this has been a frequent topic enough.
Tatum thinks: “One of the reasons why we want to hold the competition in the season is to create more opportunities for the fans and players and let them compete in the middle of the season, winning something other than the O’Brien Trophy, the NCAA tournament-style competition will attract fans, and economic incentives will also attract players to participate.”