The new NBA in-season tournament is a good idea. They don't admit it, but I think this is an attempt to address an ongoing problem of regular season games becoming far less competitive than post season contests. Regular season games, especially those before Christmas have become shooting exhibitions. I've complained about this before, and found a weight of evidence to show that these games appear to have an element of at least tacit understandings allowing open looks.
We'll see how this pans out, but these games have money on the line and so the players are likely to go for it:
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