Chris Ryan

I think that people in Champions League, they've changed the group model significantly in the last couple of seasons and it's helped a little bit.

But I think that if the NBA probably wants to make this a huge product, they might have to introduce...

elimination earlier.

Which I don't know if the teams would go for.

You're done.

Now you might have some teams basically tanking the cup because they're like, cool, maybe we get some nights off here and there.

But I just feel like if you want to make this exciting, you should introduce the idea of it being tournament basketball.

You shouldn't make it just like another game and they're tied 1-1 in group D with points differential coming into play.

Like that doesn't really like...

stir people up that much.

Yeah.

Oh, could my GM get another draft pick to draft my replacement?

Right.

Interesting.

Oh, yeah.

Would that affect the New Orleans draft slot, though?

Wouldn't affect it.

It wouldn't because the record would still be... So wouldn't that basically encourage New Orleans to essentially throw every game that they have left?

Because then you get into the play-in, but you also get the number one pick or have the best odds of getting the number one pick.

I just think they should run it more like the League Cup or the FA Cup in English football, where it's just like... There are certain weekends that are cup weekends.