The NBA playoffs are super exciting, but a straight up re-seeding of the top 1-16 teams would make future playoffs matchups electric.
Ken Berger of CBS Sports is reporting that the NBA competition committee has examined making changes to the leagues playoff seeding process.
The NBA’s competition committee closely examined the league’s playoff seeding procedures on Monday, potentially paving the way for a change to the rule that currently gives a top-four seed to a division winner regardless of record, league sources told CBSSports.com.
The Board of Governors, which meets Tuesday, will be updated on the discussion, though it’s possible that a specific change won’t be recommended to the Board for a vote until October, a person familiar with the discussions said.
As part of the discussion about whether a division winner should automatically qualify for a top-four seed, the committee also examined whether a division winner should get a tiebreak over a non-division winner with a better record. No consensus was reached on the issue, sources said.
Commissioner Adam Silver said that giving a seeding advantage to division winners was a rule that would likely change “fairly quickly.”
“We are very focused on the divisional seeding process, and I think we are going to take a very close look at whether we should seed at least 1 through 8 by conference as opposed to giving the division winner that higher seed,” Silver said. “That is a vestige of a division system that may not make sense anymore.”
I say just scrap the whole thing, and re-seed once the regular season ends.