Jordan addressed the topic of NBA players missing games in the second installment of a series that NBC is calling "MJ: Insights to Excellence," which aired Tuesday night between games of a doubleheader on the network.

The six group winners plus a wild card from each conference — determined by head-to-head record and point differential — go into an eight-team knockout round bracket (East vs. East, West vs. West, similar to the NBA playoffs where the conferences are separate until the Finals). The knockout round games are single-elimination.