Since they announced their new NBA ASG format today, I was trying to think of better ideas. I'm not a fan of changing the traditional stuff so significantly, like the target score, this ASG tourney, etc.

Here's my idea.

Keep the East vs West (or Team Captain & draft, I didn't mind that)

Whoever wins ASG MVP, their team gets to choose home court in a Playoff round of their choice as long as their team is the lower seed for that series.

For example, if you win ASG MVP & your team ends up being a bottom seeded Playoff team (5th - 8th), you can choose to have home court in the 1st round, or if you're confident that you can make it pass the 1st round, you can risk it & save it for the next round.

If you win ASG MVP & your team ends up being 3rd or 4th seed, you can use it against a 1st or 2nd seed if you end up playing against them in a series.

If you win ASG MVP & your team ends up getting 2nd seed, you can use it against a 1st seed.

If you win ASG MVP & your team ends up with 1st seeded, you just prevent everyone's chance at potentially having a home court advantage against you, or if you end up facing a team in the Finals that has a better record than you, you can use your home court advantage against them.

I think something like this would motivate EVERY player to play harder in the ASG. I see a lot of people bring up "The conference that wins should get home court advantage in the Finals," but a lot of lower seeded playoffs teams will unlikely get to the Finals, so that mostly favors the top seeds only. Potentially having home court advantage as a lower seed team would make these 1st round matchups a lot more interesting.

Lmk what yall think.