G League adopts Elam Ending format for OT

The NBA G League revealed its 2022-23 schedule Thursday, and with it an interesting novelty for next season: Every G League game going into overtime will end not with a slotted slot, but with a final. Elam.

Under the final Elam format, the game clock will be turned off during the overtime period and teams must reach an “ultimate goal score” to win. The target score will be determined by adding seven points to the game score at the end of the regulation time. For example, if the match equals 100 after four quarters, the “final goal score” in overtime will be 107 points. The first team to score seven points in overtime wins.

The G League will also use the Elam Ending format during its annual Las Vegas show in December, in which all 30 teams participate. The fourth quarter of each match will be played with the ‘final target score’ which is 25 points added to the leader team. Score after three quarters. For example, if the score of the game after three quarters is 90-85, then the “final goal score” will be 115 points: the first team to get 115 points wins the game.

The National Basketball Association (NBA) adopted the Elam Ending format for its All-Star game that began in 2020 in Chicago, after it became popular for use in tournament basketball in recent years.

While its use in the G League is far from a guarantee that it will ever be used in the regular season or NBA playoffs in any way, the G League has been used as a testing ground for potential changes that the NBA has experimented with throughout the year. Years. the past several seasons.

Meanwhile, this season will also see the first time the G League Ignite, a team with many prospects for the 2023 NBA Draft, and the Mexico City Capitanes will play the full 50-game schedule: 24 home games, 24 away games and two at home. Annual show in Las Vegas.

The Ignites will play their home games in Las Vegas this season after moving from California. The Capitanes will play their full schedule in Mexico City, with their first G League game in Mexico City on November 6, when Mexico City hosts the Rio Grande Valley Vipers.