The NBA floor is out of the circle, what is a mid-season tournament, and what are they doing?

Is it the distortion of human nature, or the degradation of morality, that the NBA wants to make the floor like this?

Home of the Chicago Bulls, the hottest eye, Union Center turned into a slaughterhouse. The shiny blood red, I can't find where the ball is for a long time!

Chicago slaughterhouse?

The legendary NBA Mid-Season Championship has its first day of action. It's not Curry's lore that fires out of the circle, but its floor. Bright blue, bloody red, and splicing of various bright colors, is the NBA brains in the water, or is it a bad plot?

Let's start with the conclusion, the Americans did it on purpose! As long as you do this vote, the salary of NBA players will have the opportunity to double directly! First of all, we need to figure out what the NBA makes money on. Selling tickets is money, but the money is too slow! The NBA makes money, mainly by selling broadcast rights.

Curry's feet are blue

In the summer of 2016, the NBA signed a nine-year, $24 billion broadcast contract with ESPN and TNT. That year was also the first year for NBA players to make a lot of money. The bosses waved checks, and the air was filled with the smell of money. The contract of the star exceeds 100 million at every turn.

And when Yao Ming played in the NBA, 10 million a year, was already the standard for stars. In his entire career, Da Yao only earned 93 million. Now you don't get 30 million a year, and you're embarrassed to say hello when you go out, saying that you're a star. This time, the NBA is holding a mid-season tournament, and these people just want to give themselves another wave of salary increases!

Next season, the broadcast contract will expire! The NBA wants a new broadcast contract with a starting price of 50 billion for 9 years and 75 billion, and it is not too much to get it, and the appetite is not small. But just like in the workplace, if you want to increase your salary, let your boss see what additional value you can create for the company!

The home of the Heat is also a bloody red

The NBA season is very long, from October to June, with five ratings flashpoints in between: the opener, the Christmas game, the All-Star weekend, the play-offs and the playoffs. From the opening game to the Christmas war, there was a two-month gap in the ratings.

If you can hold a mid-season tournament in the middle, the ratings will be full of the whole season, and the father of the gold owner will be happy to watch it. But if the NBA wants to add events, it also needs to get the consent of the players.

The NBA has been negotiating with the players' union for several years before it was officially implemented this summer. The players' union initially disagreed. Because the regular season is already 82 games, what tournament do you have to play, and your boss asks you to work overtime for nothing, it's no different.

The NBA is smart where it is. They know how to reason and move with "money", first, they will not let the players play in vain; The second is that there are only two teams that will play one more game.

Stern: Bro, you still know how to play

The mid-season tournament is attended by 30 teams and is divided into five brackets based on last season's regular season results, with each bracket drawn into six groups, three each in the east and west. Each group consists of five teams, each of which plays four games during the group stage. The first place in the six groups will enter the knockout round with the second place in the group with the best results in the East and West.

Results from the group stage to the semifinals will be included in the regular season record statistics, and the players will have to play the regular season anyway, so the NBA just created the concept of a mid-season tournament and did not increase the burden on the players.

Only the two teams that make it to the finals will have to play one more game, but it will definitely not be in vain, with each player on the champion team receiving $500,000 and the runners-up $200,000 each. There is also money to be made in other stages of the knockout round, with 100,000 for the semi-finals and 50,000 for the quarter-finals.

500,000, 200,000 is nothing for supergiants like James and Curry, but it is a lot of money for those players with a base salary.

The mid-season tournament, a single elimination in the knockout stage, and the finals were pulled to a neutral venue, held in Las Vegas, the main thrill, the hottest NCAA Crazy March in the United States is how to play, and the NBA directly copied the homework.

321, get on the bus

Hundreds of thousands of prize money are just "small money", and the mid-season tournament is done well, and the whole league makes a lot of money together. Through the mid-season tournament, the NBA's ratings will be further boosted, and the bargaining chips with broadcasters will be increased.

Before the start of the game, the league had already informed the teams that the game would use an alternative style of colored flooring in order to deepen the impression of fans, and the first shot of the mid-season tournament was given to it. It doesn't matter if you think the floor is ugly, as long as you remember this new game, the purpose of the NBA has been achieved.

If the NBA negotiates a new contract for broadcast at a sky-high price, and the player signs another contract, the salary will immediately rise. What now seems like a staggering 60 million annual salary may be in the near future, and it will be the regular operation of stars.

It is not a dream to start with a maximum salary contract of 70 million, and the middle-class contract and the base salary of veterans will also usher in a skyrocket.

What's wrong with the ugly floor, it has high ratings!