NBA considering change to playoff seeding?

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

And again, 16 teams a year go to single-elimination? The NBA hasn't done anything resembling single elimination in my memory, if ever. I can't recall any series under best of 5.

The last time the NBA had a Best-of-3 playoff series was 1983. As near as I can tell, there hasn't been a single-elimination "playoff" game since before the NBL/BAA merger, and those were "tiebreaker" games.

 

[luckynuMBer10]

Aren't there something like 330-odd colleges and universities that qualify as Division I for basketball, though? It's not really a comparable situation: it's not like those 64+ teams make up half, or even a fourth, of the schools playing Division I ball. There are already more than half of the teams in the NBA that get into the playoffs; we don't need more teams to get in, we need less.

Then, with all do respect, the only way that will ever happen is if the NBA agrees to play out the regular season, and then have a 7 game series between the best team in the West and the best team in the East. Winner takes all. Screw all of the other teams. None of this 16 teams make it BS we're used to seeing right now. Western Conference Champion Vs Eastern Conference Champion. 1 single series. Winner becomes NBA Champion.

As long as we all are breathing citizens of this fine country, we will have to witness a playoff system that is corrupted in some way, shape, or form. Same goes with the draft/lottery system. All I did was propose something that I felt could potentially solve the problem, and make things a bit better. OK, so my system for non-playoff teams is flawed. But so is the current one. And so will be the one implemented after the current one runs out of gas. It's just reality.

What fun would it be if the world we all live in is 100% perfect 100% of the time?

And what fun would this forum be if we all were in 100% agreement 100% of the time?

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

What's wrong with the way that Major League Baseball (used to) does it? Three division winners, plus a wild card? I'm of the sentiment that the playoffs should be hard enough to get into that just making the playoffs, by themselves, is an accomplishment. As it stands now, 53 percent of the teams in each conference get in the playoffs. That's why coaches can get to the playoffs and still lose their jobs. That's why Hall of Fame talents that don't get their teams into the playoffs get maligned and overlooked.

Of course, it'll never happen: there's simply too much money in it. Personally, I would rather that the regular season were longer, and the playoffs were shorter. But, as with the playoff seeding discussion, I fully expect to stand alone on that issue.

 

[luckynuMBer10]

What's wrong with the way that Major League Baseball (used to) does it? Three division winners, plus a wild card? I'm of the sentiment that the playoffs should be hard enough to get into that just making the playoffs, by themselves, is an accomplishment. As it stands now, 53 percent of the teams in each conference get in the playoffs. That's why coaches can get to the playoffs and still lose their jobs. That's why Hall of Fame talents that don't get their teams into the playoffs get maligned and overlooked.

Of course, it'll never happen: there's simply too much money in it. Personally, I would rather that the regular season were longer, and the playoffs were shorter. But, as with the playoff seeding discussion, I fully expect to stand alone on that issue.

I am the exact opposite. I'd rather have a shorter regular season, and a longer postseason. Postseason play is way more exciting than regular season play. And, by implementing one and done games, that excitement would be somewhere else, in terms of the NBA. Baseball gets away with fewer teams in the postseason because their regular season is just way too dang long. Even MLB needs to shorten their season a bit.

We can both agree to disagree. At the end of the day, it is our disagreements that make for some nice discussions.

 

[VF21]

...And what fun would this forum be if we all were in 100% agreement 100% of the time?

I don't think we'll ever have to worry about that.

 

[luckynuMBer10]

What's wrong with the way that Major League Baseball (used to) does it? Three division winners, plus a wild card? I'm of the sentiment that the playoffs should be hard enough to get into that just making the playoffs, by themselves, is an accomplishment. As it stands now, 53 percent of the teams in each conference get in the playoffs. That's why coaches can get to the playoffs and still lose their jobs. That's why Hall of Fame talents that don't get their teams into the playoffs get maligned and overlooked.

Of course, it'll never happen: there's simply too much money in it. Personally, I would rather that the regular season were longer, and the playoffs were shorter. But, as with the playoff seeding discussion, I fully expect to stand alone on that issue.

Out of curiosity, when you say "longer", how many games exactly are we talking about here?