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Wild Card Tournament: ABA & NBA reach agreement, championship takes final format

The championship has gone massive. 64 teams have been added to the competition as the NBA reached an agreement with the ABA board of executives. The agreement supposes the inclusion of A  BA legendary teams, such as the New York Nets led by Julius Erving, and of basketball legends as Rick Barry. In total, the ABA is now represented by 24 teams, whereas the other 40 have been added from the NBA.

Now, the tournament has expanded so that it reaches more mdern teams: the 73-9 Warriors, the 2015 Cavs, the 2017 Warriors, or the 2019 Bucks are some of them. Moreover, there is a sensational team that has been added: the New York Celtics, also known as The Original Celtics - a team that dates back to the 1920s.

As the season had already reached the All Star, this 60+ teams won't follow the same path as the previous 180, officials say. Instread, they've announced an alternative way that they'll have to complete until they merge with the original teams in the Re-Seeding round: that will be the Wild Card Tournament. The 64 teams have beend divided in 2 brackets of 32 each, so the winner will advance and take part in the 16 best basketball teams ever.

As the All-NBA Championship has been incredibly complicated, the Association has provided us with an infographic that shows the way teams will have to go through:

Tournament scheme


Since the number of teams now increases to 244, the All-NBA Press Office has considered covering the rest of the regular season phase as impractical. In fact, by the time The League is finished, there will be... 100 teams remaining! So, this is what awaits for you in the next article:
  • We'll keep track of our favourite teams: how they have finished, which teams await for them in the 1st Round, preview of the match-up...
  •  We'll dig into the Top 10 absences of the best 100 teams. Is there someone we won't see up there where we thought he should be? Is there any team that has perform way under the expectations we had for it? 
Elimination rounds are now closer than ever. In just 4 rounds, 100 teams will be narrowed to 16. Get ready to discover which is the best basketball team ever, as the race for the gold gets an extraordinary rhythm.

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  1. MarioB_8813 de agosto de 2020 a las 3:32

    It's a mess but I'm enjoying this like an 8 years old boy.

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    1. Cathárkalo16 de agosto de 2020 a las 16:50

      thanks for reading and commenting! Don't worry, I know it's quite complex but I'll be kind of guiding you as it goes!

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