NBA to seed conference playoff teams by record

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  1. KingSpeed

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    I like the way you're thinking. Would be nice to have teams in Seattle and Vancouver again,
     
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    Yep. That year, the division winner was guaranteed a top 3 seed. The 6th seeded Clippers got HCA in first round. The 5th seeded Grizzlies got Dallas with no HCA and wound up getting swept. Clippers made it to 2nd round.
     
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    Seems like there are not enough "rivalries" already. This diminishes them even further. Agreed about this being the result of a couple of coaches whining.
     
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    Seattle, St. Louis, Kansas City/Omaha, Louisville and Virginia Beach would be my 5 in the states. Istanbul, Paris, London, Rome and Barcelona would be my overseas teams.

    Eight five-team divisions, play the other four teams in your own division three times (12 total), and the other 35 teams twice (70 total). Each division winner gets a bye. First Round is 5 or 7 games.
    Each Conference's Playoffs
    1 vs 8/9
    4 vs 5/12
    3 vs 6/11
    2 vs 7/10

    There's enough basketball talent out there. Itd sure be fun
     
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    Agreed. If Canzano could just make all the decisions, we'd be in a much happier place.

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    Kazakhstan, Andorra, Bali, and Vatican City would be my choices. And here at home, Pierre, Key West, Baton Rouge, and Cheyenne.

    Oh, and the lowest scoring player in each playoff game gets put to death.

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    I don't understand why they can't just abolish these stupid conferences?! why do we need a separate playoff for each geographical region? best 16 records should enter the playoffs and it should have been done 15 years ago!

    And also, the shot clock should reset to 14 instead of 24 after an offensive rebound.
     
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    Makes sense. Best teams should get best seeds. Not be penalized for another team having a weak ass division.
     
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    Yeah it hilarious that this rule changes is based around the Blazers being villians for benefiting ( if you call getting destroyed by the grizzlies benefiting) from a rule that pushed us up a couple seeds.
     
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    Why don't they just do it like the NFL if they are gonna mess shit up anyway and have conferences/ divisions with teams from both the west and east.
     
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    Not much point in conferences either. If they want to play within the region more, fine, but seed the whole damn NBA. The NBA plucked out a sliver but left a plank in their eye. The big problem is crappy eastern teams getting into the playoffs while good western teams sit out. Fucking morons.
     
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    Why have a regular season at all? Just have a tournament to choose the champ.
     
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    The regular season is silly, in terms of the goal to reaching the championship. It only filters out the worst of the worst, and seeding and home court don't mean crap.
     
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    I like this a lot. Somewhat out of place in this thread, but I still agree.
     
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    Why have playoffs? Why not have only one team. Then have a big ceremony and give them a trophy.

    Also, the team should have only 1 player, not 15.

    We can definitely simplify the NBA.

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    Exactly.

    Conferences do make sense because they minimize coast to coast travel, and affect the schedule.
     
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    Getting rid of divisions will still leave eastern conf teams with losing records in the playoffs..it really just allows all the Texas teams to get higher seeds in the west
     
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    Better yet - let's contract the league! Delete 2-4 teams. CHA and ORL would be the top two to delete. Then move NOP to the ECF.
     
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    He didn't offer to abolish the conferences altogether, just for the playoffs and it makes perfect sense.
    So teams travel more for 1-3 weeks, so what? it's not like we're still in the 50's and the players have to travel on buses.

    Eastern conference teams making the playoffs with poor records sucks. The whole point of the regular season is to eliminate scrub teams in order for the playoffs to be as competitive as possible.
     
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    Every NFL game is a huge event, because every game is so meaningful. There are only 16 games in a season, and only 12 playoff spots, and the top 4 teams get a first round bye. Compare than to 16 teams, no byes, and 7 game series. Also, in the NFL, home field advantage means more, because there is a tangible advantage to the noise factor.

    If I were to re-design the NBA, I'd play 50 games, and have the top 12 teams make the playoffs with 4 byes. Seeding would go regardless of division or conference.
     
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