NBA Play-In Tournament – Video News Story

This past off-season, the NBA added a different way to decide the last two seeds of the playoffs. The Play-In Tournament will include the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth seeds of the Western and Eastern conferences. The seventh and eighth seeds will kick off the tournament then the winner of this game will be crowned the seventh seed in the playoffs. Then the ninth and tenth seeds will play for an opportunity to play the loser of the first game for the final spot in the playoffs. This new idea has been controversial throughout the league claiming it is putting more strain on the players playing more games. While others have viewed this as making the regular season more and more competitive fighting for spots to avoid the tournament. This should be an exciting and way to determine the final two seeds but we have to wait until May 18th to find out.