{"id":439498,"date":"2023-11-05T05:02:17","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T05:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=439498"},"modified":"2023-11-05T05:02:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T05:02:17","slug":"michael-wilbon-bashes-nba-in-season-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/michael-wilbon-bashes-nba-in-season-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Wilbon\u00a0Bashes NBA In-Season Tournament\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are some who aren&#8217;t enthused about the NBA&#8217;s in-season tournament, including one ESPN staffer, Michael Wilbon. The tournament started on Friday night.<\/p>\n<h2>Michael Wilbon\u00a0Bashes NBA In-Season Tournament<\/h2>\n<p>Michael Wilbon attacked the in-season tournament on Friday&#8217;s episode of Pardon The Interruption. Eight teams total, four from each conference, will move on to the knockout stage, which will end with a championship game in Las Vegas on December 9th, where the victor will receive the first-ever NBA Cup.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here is Michael Wilbon talking about the Kings vs Clippers game last night <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2AlWyBQQGs\">pic.twitter.com\/2AlWyBQQGs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \ud835\ude45\ud835\ude56\ud835\ude68\ud835\ude60\ud835\ude56\ud835\ude67\ud835\ude63 (@SwipaZorro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SwipaZorro\/status\/1629655116239486977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In an interview on Friday, the host of ESPN&#8217;s &#8220;Pardon the Interruption&#8221; stated that athletes shouldn&#8217;t require &#8220;a stupid trophy and orange slices&#8221; to be inspired to perform in the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll give you a couple of reasons,\u201d Wilbon said in a discussion with co-host Frank Isola. \u201cIt\u2019s already supposed to count, Frank. It\u2019s a game on the schedule. These aren\u2019t separate games. It\u2019s a game on the schedule you\u2019re paying good money to see. Players are being paid to play these, and now you\u2019re telling me, \u2018I\u2019m gonna assign something else.\u2019<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#39;s safe to say that Michael Wilbon isn&#39;t excited for the NBA&#39;s in-season tournament. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tNaBo8nN3o\">pic.twitter.com\/tNaBo8nN3o<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/awfulannouncing\/status\/1720571096364093694?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpeaking of our obsession with analytical junk, so I\u2019m gonna assign something phony to it, let the marketing people run my league. The marketing people are gonna say to you, \u2018Go watch this game, we\u2019re \u00a0gonna assign it an extra value, so then we can give people orange slices and trophies at the end of it.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it\u2019s supposed to matter, Frank, let it matter\u2026 Let\u2019s convince all you dopes that these games are special. No, it\u2019s a Wednesday night in Milwaukee. That\u2019s what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Michael Wilbon says his son is no longer allowed to wear Ja Morant\u2019s signature shoes: \u201cI told [my son] Matthew you can\u2019t have the shoe\u2026 our money as a family is not going toward that\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RmJsvjxVZM\">pic.twitter.com\/RmJsvjxVZM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Daily Loud (@DailyLoud) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DailyLoud\/status\/1658199053228822529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Knicks&#8217; loss to the Bucks and the Nets&#8217; victory against the Bulls marked the start of the tournament on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Teams should be encouraged to perform at their highest level if they are offered prize money of more than $500k per player, which is similar to what the Denver Nuggets received for winning the title the previous year. This may lessen worries about &#8220;load management,&#8221; which has irritated both television networks and fans.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Stephen A. and Michael Wilbon were not happy with Deandre Ayton on this sequence \ud83d\ude05 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/07Gqtvd5gs\">pic.twitter.com\/07Gqtvd5gs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NBA on ESPN (@ESPNNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNNBA\/status\/1654688774767644672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>However, it appears like Wilbon was irritated for other reasons because he seemed to have a &#8220;Old man yells at cloud&#8221; vibe. 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Eight teams total, four from each conference, will move on to the knockout stage, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":439499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[18514,18517,18516,18515,18492,18519,18493,18518],"class_list":["post-439498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-michael-wilbon","tag-michael-wilbon-in-season-tournament","tag-michael-wilbon-nba","tag-michael-wilbon-news","tag-nba-in-season-tournament","tag-nba-in-season-tournament-news","tag-nba-in-season-tournament-floor","tag-nba-in-season-tournament-trophy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}