Though some players and teams were openly critical of it, NBA commissioner Adam Silver said Friday that he hopes the new play-in tournament becomes a regular thing.
Silver, speaking on ESPN Radio, said the biggest thing he felt the new tournament did was create more incentive for teams to finish out the regular season.
"Over the past few years, pre-pandemic, there's been a lot of reference to our long regular season and the issues around player resting, and we tried to address that as well," Silver said on ESPN Radio. "We moved to a 72-game season because of the pandemic and somewhat condensed so we had 10 fewer regular-season games, and I had hardly heard a mention about it.