Cuban: An Anti-Tanking Mavs Playoff Plan
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DALLAS (105.3 THE FAN) - Mavs owner Mark Cuban never said or wrote the words "tanking" or "revenue," but both concepts are subtly tucked into a suggestion he's making to Mavs fans (via CyberDust) and to NBA owners (via meetings in Las Vegas) proposing the expansion of playoff brackets from eight to 10 teams per conference.
"With all the concern about getting a high draft pick taking precedent over winning games, the disparity in talent between conferences and the general challenge of team building, I asked the question (before NBA owners)," Cuban wrote. "Why do just eight teams per conference make the playoffs? Why not 10?"
Would more playoff teams equal less tanking? Would it up viewership and up revenue? "It would keep things interesting for fans longer into the season," Cuban wrote.
Cuban suggested giving byes to the top seeds in each conference, just one of the rewards of the idea...along with, of course, an increase in revenue and maybe a decrease in tanking.
"(I'm) curious," Cuban concluded in his fan-directed message, "what everybody thinks of the idea?"
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