Hour 3 - Money Grab
The Ben Maller Show
Fox Sports Radio and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Bernie Fratto fills in for Ben Maller and talks about the NBA pushing for an in-season tournament and why it isn't a great idea, Mackenzie Rivers comes back to break down some more odds, and much more!
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| 0:34.3 | The Ben Mallor show continues. |
| 0:35.4 | I'm Bernie Frato. |
| 0:39.9 | Coming to live for the Las Vegas Fox Sports Radio Studios. |
| 0:50.2 | All right, the NBA lost a lot of revenue during the bubble. I called it the, you know, |
| 0:59.4 | the tournament, the year that they had the NBA finals down there in Orlando in the bubble you know I give the Lakers credit they won their championship but look the long and short is the NBA missed about four months that |
| 1:02.7 | year they lost a lot of revenue and how do they get some of that back one of the |
| 1:06.5 | things are talking about is creating an in-season tournament. |
| 1:16.7 | In December, it would be in December some year with pool play, and there would be a million dollar payout. |
| 1:18.0 | The question is, will it get the votes? |
| 1:20.4 | All of a sudden, there's this renewed momentum for the creation of a future in-season NBA tournament that would include the league's all 30 teams. |
| 1:32.1 | Now, they've been discussing elements of this, which could become part of the calendar as soon as the 22-23 season. |
| 1:39.4 | It could spill into the year after that, but negotiations, they've centered on sort of this in-season |
| 1:46.6 | tournament that would begin with pool play as part of the regular season schedule prior to the |
| 1:51.2 | teams with the best records that would then advance to an eight-team single-elimination tournament |
| 1:56.0 | that would culminate prior to Christmas. |
| 1:59.7 | Now, that proposal, though, then would also shorten the regular season from 82 to 78 games. |
| 2:05.5 | But the sides have discussed a purse of $1 million per player for the winning team, |
| 2:11.7 | and the players could see more financial and competitive incentives if they agree to a format but the NBA has been |
| 2:20.0 | motivated with the prospects of believing that by creating this it would generate a very |
| 2:25.3 | lucrative television deal it would generate all kinds of new sponsorship revenue |
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