{"id":6779,"date":"2013-10-23T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/nba-finals-format-changed\/"},"modified":"2013-10-31T05:00:09","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T05:00:09","slug":"nba-finals-format-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/nba-finals-format-changed\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Finals format changed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (Sports Network) &#8211; The NBA Board of Governors voted unanimously Wednesday to change the Finals format to 2-2-1-1-1 after nearly 30 years of the 2-3-2 setup.<\/p>\n<p>The changes will be effective for the 2014 Finals.<\/p>\n<p>An extra off day will be added between Games 6 and 7.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Competition Committee felt strongly that a consistent format should be used for each round of our playoffs,&#8221; President of Basketball Operations Rod Thorn said. &#8220;With improvements in team air travel and technology, the reasons the 2-3-2 format made sense for us in the past largely do not exist anymore, so creating consistency became the priority.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The NBA began the 2-3-2 format in 1985 to better serve teams dealing with commercial travel. Cross-country rivals Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers met in the 1984 NBA Finals before the changes were made for the 2-3-2 format in the 1985 Finals, which saw a rematch between the Celtics and Lakers.<\/p>\n<p>The home team won the middle three games only three times.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA previously used the 2-3-2 format from 1957-1984 &#8212; except 1978.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (Sports Network) &#8211; The NBA Board of Governors voted unanimously Wednesday to change the Finals format to 2-2-1-1-1 after nearly 30 years of the 2-3-2 setup. The changes will be effective for the 2014 Finals. An extra off day will be added between Games 6 and 7. &#8220;The Competition Committee felt strongly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6789,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6779\/revisions\/6789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}