(Editor’s note: The Basketball …

(Editor’s note: The Basketball Tournament is an open invitation tournament with $2 million prize money that, back in 2017, adopted an ending strategy created by university professor Nick Elam in which a target score is established to discourage late-game fouling.) Silver: We combined a few different concepts here. Our so-called Elam ending is different than the traditional Elam ending where you get to a certain point at the end of the game and you have eight points. We had still been exploring different concepts. But as we were looking at ways to commemorate Kobe, this notion of adding 24 points in the fourth quarter was suggested by a few people. That seemed fitting. Sort of independent of the Elam concept was making each quarter in its own right a competition and creating a charitable association with the outcome for each quarter. For us, it felt like something new to try.