NBA Cup title game out of Las Vegas<\/a> after a three-year run, while also acknowledging the NBA has \u201cloved our experience\u201d in the city.<\/p>\n\u201cYou already know we\u2019re going to go back to home markets for the [NBA Cup] semifinal games [next year] because I think that teams, in a way, the reason we didn\u2019t do that the first time out is teams were worried they wouldn\u2019t be able to sell the tickets on short notice. Now that they\u2019re seeing that their fans care about the Cup, they want the benefit of a home crowd and the energy that\u2019s there.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, I like that idea. … We\u2019re talking with Amazon Prime [Video] about whether it makes sense to maybe go to some unique locations for the final game. They\u2019ve suggested, for example, some storied college arenas. So, we\u2019re just looking at other ways we could do this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Silver also remained bullish on the NBA Cup overall, saying the league\u2019s had \u201cthe three highest attended Novembers in the history of this league\u201d since the Cup began and that ratings are up roughly 25% in November compared to when there was no in-season tournament.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fans have responded,\u201d Silver said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA is considering an Amazon suggestion to perhaps move the finals of future NBA Cups to \u201cstoried\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-353369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}