(05-13-2021, 02:28 PM)Hogmelon Wrote: The Mavs surely have a boatload of incentive to win their final regular-season home game against Toronto tomorrow night.
And in other news ...
I hope I'm in a position to enjoy the Nuggets vs. Blazers game on Sunday night [with the Mavs, at that point, being unaffected by Denver's choice of methods by which to screw the hated Lakers, i.e., by "tanking" (or not) against Portland].
Of course, the NBA has made my life more complicated than I would prefer by scheduling all of the following games to start at 8:00 PM CDT:
Mavericks vs. Timberwolves
Trail Blazers vs. Nuggets
Lakers vs. Pelicans
Clippers vs. Thunder
Jazz vs. Kings
I have heard the schedule had changed, or will be changing, and that ALL 30 TEAMS will have a tip-off in the afternoon on the final day.
I think the reasoning is to prevent any team from getting the advantage of knowing what their competition has done, in how they play their own game. Or in planning for what comes next, since some teams will have a play-in tourney to quickly plan for, at the end of the games.
I would speculate they will set it so that all EC games will be early games with the very same tip-off time (EDT), and all WC games will follow with the same tip-off time (EDT).
ADDED - This is how Shams reported it on May 9:
For NBA’s final day of regular season on May 16, all 30 teams — 15 games — will play in afternoon starting between 12-3:30 pm ET.