Adam Silver: Play-in tournament likely will return
NBA commissioner Adam Silver 推定する／予想するs the play-in tournament for postseason 寝台／地位s to continue next season.
Giving his 年次の 明言する／公表する-of-the-協会 演説（する）／住所 before the start of the NBA 決勝戦 on Tuesday in 不死鳥／絶品, Silver 重さを計るd in on topics 含むing player 傷害s まっただ中に a condensed 2020-21 schedule, the 可能性のある for the Toronto Raptors to return to playing in Canada and the dearth of 黒人／ボイコット and 女性（の） 長，率いる coaches.
Play-in events were 追加するd this season, with the ninth- and 10th-place teams in both 会議／協議会s 収入 the 適切な時期 to make the postseason. The No. 9 Memphis Grizzlies took advantage by making the Western 会議／協議会 プレーオフs.
Silver said of the play-in 判型, "It's my 期待 that we'll continue it next season."
He 追加するd that the 協定 remains 支配する to 是認 by the team owners and the 国家の Basketball Players 協会.
The league 吸収するd plenty of flak for a プレーオフ season that has seen a 抱擁する 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） of 星／主役にする players 行方不明になる time 予定 to 傷害s に引き続いて a compacted 72-game schedule.
The Los Angeles Lakers' Anthony Davis, the Milwaukee Bucks' Giannis Antetokounmpo, the Atlanta 強硬派s' Trae Young, the Philadelphia 76ers' Joel Embiid, the Los Angeles Clippers' Kawhi Leonard, the Brooklyn 逮捕するs' Kyrie Irving and James Harden, the Utah Jazz's Donovan Mitchell and マイク Conley all got 傷つける in the postseason.
"I have no 疑問 that the 付加 強調する／ストレス and physical and mental （死傷者）数 (this season) has 与える／捧げるd to 傷害s," Silver said. "正確に why we have the 傷害s we do, it's still 不明瞭な to us. It's something that we'll continue to 熟考する／考慮する in the offseason."
The status of the Raptors, who played home games in Tampa this season 予定 to the coronavrius pandemic, remains uncertain, によれば Silver.
"I know on に代わって of Larry Tanenbaum, who's the 知事 of the team and happens to be the chairman of the board of the NBA, he's very 希望に満ちた that Ontario will open up and they'll be able to have the team 支援する in Toronto," Silver said.
Silver called it "失望させるing" that the NBA still doesn't have a 女性（の） 長，率いる coach, though longtime San Antonio 刺激（する）s assistant coach Becky Hammon 報道によれば interviewed for vacancies with the Orlando 魔法 and the Portland 追跡する Blazers recently.
Regarding 多様制 の中で the league's 長，率いる coaches, Silver said, "This is an 問題／発行する that 要求するs daily attention. ... We're not gonna 残り／休憩（する） on our laurels."
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