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For starters, we may change up the groups who take part within the NBA Cup to make issues extra fascinating and provides the occasion a extra international aptitude.
What we’re proposing is all 30 NBA groups compete for the NBA Cup… together with two wild-card groups. A kind of wild-card spots can go to whoever is main the G League standings on the deadline, and the opposite can go to the reigning champion of an abroad competitors, like Euroleague, China’s CBA or Australia’s NBL.
Ideally, we’d go along with the reigning Euroleague champion, which could really be the NBA Europe champ finally (if rumors in regards to the NBA beginning a European league to compete with Euroleague are to be believed).
That will arrange extra thrilling matchups that we wouldn’t get to see regularly. Would anybody be excited by a Actual Madrid vs. Boston Celtics recreation, for instance? Or how about Panathinaikos vs. Boston? The Greek membership is the reigning Euroleague champion, in spite of everything, and at the moment boasts a squad of identified former NBA gamers like Cedi Osman, Kendrick Nunn, Juancho Hernangomez, Omer Yurtseven and Jerian Grant, in addition to Olympic basketball event breakout star Mathias Lessort.
Now that will be an thrilling matchup, and it might happen early on within the NBA Cup in our recommended format, giving followers one thing to tune into within the early portion of the event, which is at the moment an uninteresting group stage.
