The Boston Celtics are already getting some benefits from their success in the NBA’s new in-season tournament according to MassLive’s Souichi Terada. Per Terada, the Celtics are already getting $50,000 per player for advancing to the quarterfinals, and will get incrementally larger sums if they continue to advance to the title game, the winner of which gets $500,000.
Celtics forward Jaylen Brown also shared that the tourney is also helping the team focus early in the season. “The in-season tournament is going to help us a little bit because the season can get a little mundane, 82 games, it’s a grind, it gets kind of like monotonous a little bit, game after game,” he explained.
“But mixing it up, having something a little bit different, I think it’ll increase our focus levels, and hopefully we’re able to keep that maintained throughout the season.”
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“It’s just something new, I wanted to see how the guys would respond to it,” he added. “(…) For the most part, I think everybody was kind of in the same boat … they didn’t hate it, but they didn’t love it either.”
“But as it’s starting to grow, I think people are starting to gravitate to it a little bit more. I’m thinking it’s been a good thing so far.”
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