Ramona Shelburne, the semi-finals of the first ever NBA in season tournament begin tonight.

You were at Tuesday's game where the Lakers punched their ticket to Vegas, but I gotta ask you

first, what's been your impression of the tournament so far?

Well, the first game or two of this thing.

I don't know if I quite understood. I think it was more of this is just

different because we say it's different and the courts are different and nobody can

it's kind of hard to see on these courts and you're calling it

in season tournament or the mid season tournament and IST

like nobody quite knew what all this was about it just felt like regular season

games that were different because you said they were different but as it has

gone on and as players have embraced it really I think it's gotten kind of fun

it's gotten interesting I'm surprising myself by liking it. Like initially I was not on board. I was like,

this is just a made-up tournament. These are regular season games that you're just

calling part of a tournament.

And yet I was at the game on Tuesday night in Los Angeles where the Lakers beat

the sun's in a really exciting game and it felt like a tournament game. It felt different than a regular season game.

And so, yeah, let's do this, let's do this IST or whatever you want to call it because it's fun and it is different somehow.

And that's even before we get to Las Vegas here because when you talked about Austin Reeves hitting a big

jumper and the crowd getting so excited and Austin Reeves himself being very

excited. We saw Tyrese Halliburton who recently said,

I'm tired of losing and now has this opportunity to win something

in this tournament.

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