Chicago Bulls followers bought a primary glimpse on the street map of the 2023-24 NBA season Tuesday because the league introduced the schedule for the primary In-Season Tournament.
The match will give followers and gamers a style of single-elimination competitors by elevating the stakes of a number of early regular-season video games. The Bulls will play 4 video games within the group stage — two at residence and two on the street — to vie for a spot within the knockout spherical.
Both delight and cash can be on the road for gamers, who may earn as much as $500,000 every for profitable the match.
The group stage commences Nov. 3, and the Bulls will play their first sport that day towards the Brooklyn Nets on the United Center.
Here’s what else to know in regards to the new match.
Bulls schedule
- Nov. 3 vs. Brooklyn Nets
- Nov. 17 vs. Orlando Magic
- Nov. 24 at Toronto Raptors
- Nov. 28 at Boston Celtics
How do the Bulls advance?
The prime group from every of the six five-team teams — three teams in every convention — will advance to the knockout spherical together with a wild-card group from every convention.
This is the order of tiebreakers for each the wild playing cards and any ties for first in a bunch:
- Head-to-head
- Point differential
- Total factors scored
- 2022-23 regular-season file
- Random drawing
The two groups from every convention with the perfect group-stage data will host quarterfinals on Dec. 4-5, with the group with the perfect file (or tiebreaker standing) in its convention internet hosting the wild card from the identical convention. The similar 5 tiebreakers can be utilized to find out seeding.
The semifinals and championship sport can be performed on Dec. 7 and 9 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
What’s on the road?
Each participant on the championship group will obtain $500,000 from the prize pool. Players on the second-place group will get $200,000 every, gamers on the opposite two semifinalists will obtain $100,000 and those that misplaced within the quarterfinals will get $50,000.
A Most Valuable Player and an All-Tournament group can be named.
Does this imply the common season is longer?
The Bulls will play the identical 82-game common season, which incorporates the six assured video games of the In-Season Tournament. The full schedule can be launched Thursday.
Teams that don’t make it to the quarterfinals will play two comfort video games on Dec. 6 and eight towards different opponents that didn’t advance. The quarterfinal losers from every convention will play each other on Dec. 8.
Every match sport aside from the championship sport will double as a regular-season sport. The outcomes will rely towards the league standings.
The two finalists would be the solely groups to play an extra sport as a result of In-Season Tournament.
How have been teams chosen?
The five-team teams have been drawn randomly based mostly on final season’s convention standings. Each group contains one group from every of those classes:
- Finished first by means of third in 2022-23
- Finished fourth by means of sixth
- Finished seventh by means of ninth
- Finished tenth by means of twelfth
- Finished thirteenth by means of fifteenth
The Bulls are in Eastern Conference Group C with the Celtics, Nets, Raptors and Magic.
What’s the cope with in-season tournaments?
This is a brand new idea for the NBA, however in-season tournaments have turn into a staple of different leagues each domestically and internationally.
The most well-known instance is the UEFA Champions League, which pits groups from the highest soccer leagues all through Europe towards each other. American sports activities leagues have adopted related fashions lately — together with the Commissioner’s Cup within the WNBA, the Leagues Cup in MLS and the Challenge Cup within the NWSL — whereas American soccer additionally has the U.S. Open Cup, which dates to 1914.
Important dates
- Friday, Nov 3: Group stage begins
- Tuesday, Nov. 28: Group stage ends
- Monday-Tuesday, Dec. 4-5: Quarterfinals
- Wednesday, Dec. 6: First further video games for groups that didn’t qualify for the knockout spherical
- Thursday, Dec. 7: Semifinals
- Friday, Dec. 8: Additional video games for groups that didn’t advance (each from group stage and quarterfinals)
- Saturday, Dec. 9: Championship sport
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Source: www.bostonherald.com