One 'Wild Card' team will also move on in each conference, given to the club with the highest winning percentage among teams that had the best record in group play games and finished second in their groups. The six group winners will advance to the knockout round. The groups were determined via random drawings based on win-loss record from last season. There are six groups in the stage, three per conference, each with five teams. All 30 teams will participate in the group stage, playing a total of four games in it-two at home and two on the road. The tournament will be split into two stages: the group stage and the knockout stage.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has long desired some sort of in-season tournament to bring intrigue back into the regular season. Tom Pennington/Getty Images/Getty Images What Are the Groups? The Mavericks and Nuggets play Friday night in one of the first games of the NBA's in-season tournament. Luka Doncic of the Dallas Mavericks drives to the basket against Nikola Jokic of the Denver Nuggets on November 15, 2021, in Dallas.

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