The NBA also had a day of copying CBA homework, and the play-offs of our league were established in the 2017-18 season, when the top six teams directly locked in the playoffs, and then the 7-10 teams went to the play-offs, and the winning promotions were basically copied by the NBA. In 2020, due to the epidemic, the regular season was not over, and the NBA was suspended. After that, in order to resume the game, it could only be set up in the park, and the schedule was changed because only the teams that had a chance to enter the playoffs were arranged. At that time, some teams had a difficult schedule in front of them, and some teams had a simple schedule, so it was unfair to rank the results directly. Therefore, there are more play-offs in order to give those teams with only a little worse record one more chance.
The following season, the NBA resumed home and away games, but it was still a shortened season, so the play-offs were retained. After that, the NBA has a normal 82 regular season games, starting with the 2021-22 season, it has been a full 3 years now, but the NBA still continues to keep the play-offs, why is that?
It's always been hard to get the NBA schedule perfect, and if you think about it, there are 30 teams playing 82 regular season games, and most of the NBA teams are still renting arenas, and you have to take care of other arrangements in the arenas, such as the Lakers and Clippers, who have a fixed period of time every year to go out and play a long road trip because their home arena has a concert. Therefore, it is bound to cause some teams to have difficult schedules and dense games in front of them, while some teams are the opposite. Then, if a more serious injury happens during this time, the record can plummet. The play-offs are to give these teams a fair chance, and as long as they grasp it, they can still play in the playoffs.
In the past NBA, in the second half of the regular season, various rotations were released, because after the ranking was locked, the team was no pressure, and at most the team in the eighth division was a little nervous. Looking at the current regular season, the teams after the fifth place have a sense of anxiety, the fifth or sixth place has to fight to secure the regular season spot, and the nine and 10th place are to keep the play-off spot. Like this year's Rockets, a wave of 11 consecutive wins in March shocked the Lakers in a cold sweat, but the fans enjoyed watching it, and the heat has been kept very high.
The play-off matches themselves, also add to many viewership. The reason why the game in March Madness is so sought after is because a tiebreaker is so good-looking, all of them have to be played as a tie-break in the finals, and the play-offs are the same, the intensity is very high, and it can better reflect the strength of the stars. In the past few years, James, Curry, Durant, Butler and other stars have all appeared in the play-offs. Tickets for the play-offs will also sell very well, and their prices may even be higher than those of the playoffs. Therefore, the NBA is equivalent to creating 6 more high-traffic games out of thin air.
The play-offs also give young players the opportunity to experience the high-end game, let them see what it means to fight for every ball, and the deafening atmosphere of fans' cries is conducive to the growth of young people and will continue to improve the quality of NBA games. Therefore, the NBA's play-offs are that fans enjoy watching them, players show themselves and grow, clubs increase revenues, and the league increases ratings, which is completely a four-win-win game. It's no wonder that the NBA has so many benefits to turn the play-in tournament into a long-term format.