NBA Cup Final Preview
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What are the hosts' initial thoughts on the NBA Cup?
Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the NBA Daily. I'm Dave DuFour here with Espera Henney. We're joined by James Edwards, who covers the Knicks. We're live in Vegas. NBA Cup championship between the Knicks and Spurs tonight. Yes, the ultimate respect the cup moment. That's right. Do you respect the cup, James? Yeah.
Do you respect the cup? I don't. Because, let me get this out. My biggest issue with the cup is the propaganda around it, right? I don't know if you guys get these tweets or see these tweets as somebody that covers a team and routinely is like, I think this is pointless. I see these tweets. It's the propaganda of the league admitting that their regular season product in their eyes isn't good enough. So we have to create this whole thing. That's an issue to me. Like you shouldn't. if your regular season isn't what you want it to be, then let's fix it in a way that let's shorten the season.
Okay. But we know the reasons why, like no one wants to make less money. Right. Okay. And so you've got this number of games that you got, although that may change because the regional networks are going to go away. And right. So you're not selling the same packages. They're not going to reduce 82. Well, but they should. I, I agree with you. Number one, 82 game season. Like we talk about this all the time. The value of each game is so low. You know, college football has this great thing where one bad week and you're out of it. And, you know, I do think like the NBA misses out on that. It's one of the reasons why the cup to me is good because basketball at its best is single elimination. tournament yeah the march madness and so you get a little bit of that here right i would actually and i got an idea here cook it's not to fix the cup i actually think the cup is good it's the regular season that's the problem okay from what standpoint just too long it's too long okay and and we we talk all the time about how many games how many minutes all these guys have to play yeah so what if you do reduce the season
to 58 games, let's say, it's a home and away for everybody. It's a balanced schedule, which we talk about often. I wouldn't get rid of conferences because I actually think it feels like sports to have. You're living in a utopia. Yeah, I am. Oh, I am.
What challenges do the Knicks face in the NBA Cup?
Let's get rid of divisions yesterday, though. Divisions, fine, but conferences, whatever. But to me, you use the NBA Cup as a preseason warm-up tournament, and you do it in a way that actually encourages teams to play all of their guys if not at least 10 25 minute player limits per guy three games a week expand the elimination tournament part of it out yeah i agree and then you have your championship game maybe you do it in neutral site i don't know but you have your championship game and then you know you do that a week before christmas yeah and then you kick off the regular season at christmas with the 58 game schedule Number one, guys have time to get totally conditioned for the arduous actual regular season.
I like this idea. It's a great idea.
It's a great way to introduce rookies. You know, you get to build up these guys.
Build up hype for the season. The G League does this already. They have their tip-off tournament, which is like a month, a month and a half of the season. And then exactly like the NBA Cup, they go to Orlando. They play a showcase tournament, quarterfinals, semifinals, et cetera. And that's how they do their tournament. And it starts the season. Christmas is when the season starts.
Yeah. And that fixes two birds, one stone. Right. Because it's not you ever do this, by the way. Of course not. Because but you're actually able to serve the cup and tournament part, which is fun. And then you you get a better regular season, in my opinion.
I like this a lot. I think that's that's a really good take. I think the season needs to be shortened. But the other thing that I have an issue with is, again, I keep bringing up the word propaganda.
Yeah.
There's this notion that the league itself is admitting, which isn't true, that the regular season needed a little bit more of importance.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What are the hosts' initial thoughts on the NBA Cup?
0:08–2:19
2
What challenges do the Knicks face in the NBA Cup?
2:19–6:22
3
How do the Spurs view their chances in the NBA Cup?
6:22–8:29
4
What changes could improve the NBA Cup format?
8:29–24:53
5
How does the Knicks' performance compare to last season?
24:53–39:53