NBA to seed conference playoff teams by record

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  1. SlyPokerDog

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    So, now the Division race means nothing.
     
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    Divisions in basketball are bunk anyway. This isn't football, you get more than one game in the playoffs thus making HCA less important.

    IMHO I prefer being road first because all you have to do is steal one road game and hold home court for the series and you're on to the next round.
     
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    How come the owners decide things? Why aren't all votes put to the fans or the media?
     
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    no point in having divisions at all anymore. Just east and west.
     
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    So, this is the "when Doc Rivers and Greg Popovich whine" modification to the rules?

    As Denny says, there's no reason for the division breakdowns anymore. Just go by conference. For that matter, just make the schedules as even as possible and eliminate conferences while we're at it. The best 16 teams get into the playoffs seeded by record.
     
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    They should merge the bottom 14 teams and call them the Fort Wayne Mad Ants.
     
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    Other than an occasional 4-5 matchup like ours with Memphis, has the old rule affected anything? It's hard to imagine a 2-7 or even a 3-6 being flipped by division standings. And since Memphis' bracket didn't change regardless of which side of the 4-5 they fall on, and they had home court despite being the #5, I don't quite see what all the fuss is about.
     
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    And how many 5 thru 8 seeds have won the championship? Do you prefer those odds?
     
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    The fuss is that the Clippers had to play the Spurs instead of the "easier" Blazers in the playoffs last season.
     
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    Blazers were 4th seed. San Antonio and Memphis had better records and tied for 5th seed.
     
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    You should lead by example! Tell us what things you own and we'll vote on what you should do with them.
     
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    This won't affect us for 4-5 years.
     
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    So now we can win our division and not make the playoffs. We just have to hope the rest of the teams in our division suck just a little bit more than we do. Hell, we could win the division and win the lottery! Now that would be an awesome banner to hang from the rafters.
     
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    They need to expand then revamp the cap rules and playoff system. Give us a 40 team league with 24 in the playoffs, 4 five team divisions per conference and division winner get byes. Hell put 5 new teams overseas and 5 in the states.
     
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    Well, we would have been 6th seed, which would have changed the 3-6 bracket along with the 4-5 bracket.
     
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    I'v heard way to many people talk about this as the "Blazer rule", like we were the first team to benefit from it. Its happened in the past and even worse then what happened this year. In 06 the Nuggets should have been an 8th seed but were a 3rd seed and I dont' remember anywhere near the discussion or outrage that was accompanied by us winning the NW division last year.
     
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    Got it, my bad.
     
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    If seeded by record, we would've been 6th seed last year. Clippers would've played us. Instead of the Spurs. That is why Doc Rivers cried.
     
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