Instructional Video regarding all the Basics of the National Basketball Association, including Teams, Format, Schedule and more! (Some logos and images are property of the NBA)
A great video but this is my first time watching NBA and I'm really excited....still looking for a team that I cop a feel for. But the NBA workings are a bit complicated to understand. Hopefully I will get a knack of it soon
I’m a sorare manager from the UK and I’ve just gotten into basketball through sorare but the whole playoff structure was confusing for me. This video cleared it up so much, great work!
01:13. As a clarification, there is currently no NBA team in Seattle. The Seattle Supersonics became the OKC Thunder in 2008. Just to keep the Conference in balance, they remained a part of the Northwest conference. There is actually a much more updated map that shows this instead of the one displayed here.
Great intro vid for someone who's not familiar with the NBA. My question is, how the teams decide which team to play 3 or 4 times for the other 36 conference games. Wouldnt it make a lil bit unfair since 1) homecourt advantage for the 3 games 2) they could face an easier team for the 4 games hence making thier win records better. Thanks btw
Thanks for watching! I think it just rotates each year. So for example, if the Heat and Bucks play 4 times one year, they might play 3 times the next season. Whichever team gets that extra game at home alternates as well
@@snowmansportsmedia Hmm, i see. It's kinda odd for me coming from football/soccer where how many games played and home advantage are really important factors that could affect the games. Thanks
Pls I need help with this question. For instance when a team has already won 4 games and the other team is trailing by 2 why is the final game always so important to them? I mean arent they already losing? What am I not understanding
Are you talking about the playoffs? If a team wins a series 4 games to 2, then they wouldn't play a game 7, it would stop at 6. Playoff series automatically end when a team has 4 wins. That's why they can be anywhere between 4 and 7 games
So if the divison doesn't determine your position in order to qualify or the teams you play then what are they for? Isnt it easier to just call east/west conference if it doesnt make a difference?
They used to have more weight to them, but not anymore. The division winners used to be given a seed 1-4 guaranteed, (one of those top 4 seeds wouldnt be a division winner naturally) but those days are over
For the Play-in this season, 7th didn't play 8th and 9th didn't play 10th? Please could you explain why? E.g. Nets played 9th place instead of 8th. Thanks
Whoever the better seed is has homecourt advantage in the playoffs. So if it's a 1-8 matchup, the 1 seed would be at home for 4 of the 7 games, while the 8 seed would only be at home for 3. The better seed is at home for Games 1, 2, 5, and 7, while the worse seed is home for Games 3, 4, and 6
It’s not fair how you can tank. It’s like the afl. I don’t like it. I like soccer (football) It’s a better scenario. Where you pay for your players and team. You can’t tank. You are paid more money the higher you finish.
And to play your own teams 4 times isn’t fair. What if the other 3 teams are just at that period where they are useless and need rebuilding. That’s easy wins and not fair to other teams. The nab should have every team play eatcother twice and that’s it. Playoffs is the top 16.
@@goatstix7750the more losses the better draft pick so I mean for so actually in the nba you should either be tanking or contending because if you are jsut mid you aren’t going to win a title but you aren’t going to get a good draft pick
Lol seeds are just the teams rankings for the playoffs! Teams with better regular season records generally play teams with worse records in the playoffs
This is the most complicated format i have ever seen...82 games and then 3 play off games best of 7..and then finals best of 7....not mentioning the ones who have yo also qualify the play ins...are they trying to kill them?
great video, but who the fuck came up with this bullshit of a system in the first place? honestly just really confusing Edit: But thanks for the video. it makes it a lot easier to understand
Their model structure is too complicated with that structure you can make teams look better than there not on the lines of rigging games ...every team should play each other 3 times a year , best 16 from east and best 16 from west enter the finals.simple .
If it's 3x then teams would complain about the home/away imbalance. "We had to play the #1 team on the road twice, but team X only had to play the #1 team on the road once"
@@ran4sh The team who has the lower season record, for the 3rd game ,it should be there home court advantage because they are the lest ones expected to win
@@howlloud2990 That sounds good from a sports perspective but not a business perspective. Currently all teams are guaranteed 50% of all games at home. Owners are not going to agree to a season structure where the worst team only gets 29 home games but the best team gets 58 home games.
What I find disgusting in the system of the NBA is, how much your potential efford lies upon where your team is located and how good the other teams in your division are right at this moment. E.g. You are Phenix Suns and Have to play 4 times against Back-To-Back Champions Warriors, the always shiny Lakers, the Clippers, while at the same time other franchises maybe just have 1 taff matchup out of all these games so mostly much more points out of it. Thats so damn unfair.
In the 82 games they play they play 36 games against the teams in their conference but not in their division But how are those 36 because there are 10 teams left so why arent it 30 (if they play everyone left 3 times) or 40 (if they play everyone left 4 times)
Ive always said the NBA would be even more popular if they shrank the season and number of games. Really who's watching the NBA in dec, jan, feb, march.
Yh I’m trying to get into nba cause all i really watch is (real) football. Nba is like the only american sport that can rival other big sports globally and it is pretty fun to watch
It’s just kind of random, but it’s usually only two in conference teams that a team will play 3 times and it’s always opponents from the other divisions
Im very glad I’m not the only one who didn’t understand this…….I think I even smelled my hair a-burning…..poor little gerbil was givin it all it had lol
Who arrange the match? Like who decide Lakers Vs Brooklyn how did he get so accurate that it won't be confusing.. and how do they know if it's homecourt or away.
@Snowman Sports Media the problem is that it has a negative impact on sport. Players are more interested in the money than the actual game. Shaq moved for money in the end, Ronaldo, Messi ect
Finals MVP is an award given to the best player of the Finals every season, the Finals being the 7 game Championship series in June that determines the NBA Champ. Regular Season MVP is an award given to the best player from the 82 game Regular Season
@@thefrenchfryguy9959How is champions league more complicated? get a group of 4 teams top 2 go to the r16 and 3 go to Europa, 4. can pack their bags home, then quartfinals and semifinals and then finals I don't understand why you think it is complicated?
Thanks for creating this video!! Just one thing, in the playoffs, the first round is the one that goes up to 7 games, and the team who wins 4 of those passes onto the conference finals?
Thanks for watching! All 4 playoff rounds go up to 7 games. We have the 1st round, the 2nd round/conf semifinals, the 3rd round/conf finals, and then the NBA Finals
I still don't get it, what do you mean 16 division games, 36 other conference games and 30 non-conference games, like what is the difference between division, other conference and non-conference games.
It's just the NBA's way of grouping teams. Each team is a part of a 5 team division, which is then also a part of a 15 team conference, which then makes up the entire 30 team league
If a team is in the "Bonus", that means they shoot free throws every time there is a team foul for the rest of the quarter. It takes 5 fouls to get in the Bonus each quarter, or 2 in the last 2 mins of a quarter
The reason the nfl works is that its relatively short, action packed and to the point...Every game is looked forward to in the regular season, 16 games and immediate kockout playoffs....basketball should be at worse a 50-game regular season where the 1st seed gets a bye, series that aren't the finals should be best of 5, Finals can be 7
Definitely agree, NBA regular season sometimes feels like a grind to get through, not many meaningful games. I think we can at least cut it down to 72 and see how it goes
