Among them, 16 teams with the best record in the regular season will enter the future competition, and 8 teams from the east and the west will advance! Then eliminate the last East-West Division champion layer by layer, and then decide the annual champion!
The preseason is just the preparation for the regular season. Because every summer, every team will have some personnel changes, players leave, newcomers enter, and some teams even change their blood. Therefore, it is necessary for NBA to practice before the regular season.
First, because the newcomers are not familiar with the team's tactics, or the new coach has applied new tactics. The team urgently needs to run in, shape tactics and cultivate tacit understanding among players.
Secondly, because the team needs to inspect some players. The NBA stipulates that each team can have up to 20 players in the preseason, but after the start of the season, each team can only have 15, and 10 is enough to really cope with the game. After all, there are only 48 minutes in each game, so it is impossible for everyone to have a chance to play. This means that 10 people, except the main five, have to fight for that substitute time. Therefore, it is necessary to conduct an inspection in the preseason. One is to slim down the team and let the team select the best 15 people to participate in the regular season; Second, determine the approximate replacement list for the regular season. Therefore, in the preseason, the main players of the team play less time, and most of the time they are substitutes or even unknown players.
Third, adjust the players' bodies to adapt to the upcoming regular season. As we all know, the offseason of NBA is longer than the summer vacation of China students, and the teams that didn't make the playoffs even began to rest in April. The competition will start at the end of 10, and the longest holiday can be half a year. If there is no preseason, then players will definitely not be able to adapt to the intensity of the regular season and increase the probability of injury. Therefore, one of the major functions of preseason is to adjust the players' body and state, so that players can be adjusted to the best state to participate in the long regular season.
The main role of preseason is above, because preseason results are not included in the regular season, so teams don't care about winning or losing preseason!