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submitted 1 day ago by TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml to c/nba@lemmy.world

It really should be done this way, there’s always good west teams that miss the playoffs and some awful East teams make it yearly.

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[-] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

i don’t think you’re ever gonna get a majority of owners to approve this. not only would eastern conference teams not want it for obvious reasons, the travel would also hit coastal teams much harder than central/mountain teams.

Such a revision would require half of the East to vote in favor, with many middling teams voting against their best interests. No one we spoke with expects that to change.

[-] streetfestival@lemmy.ca 3 points 23 hours ago

Per the article, half of Eastern Conference teams would need to sign onto this, which experts don't think will happen any time soon. Given that additions of Las Vegas +1 other team are obviously on the league's horizon, I could see this 1-16 seeding and possibly re-allocating a couple teams to different conferences happening with the expansion to 32 teams

[-] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

it would just be one team shifted to the east, probably memphis or Minny.

[-] TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml 3 points 21 hours ago

Yeah I think when expansion happens is the time they’ll do it if it ever happens. Outside of that I agree the East teams won’t do it.

[-] JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz -1 points 22 hours ago

There's too many playoff spots, it should be fewer and based only on elo ranking instead of number of wins, since one division is good and one has 3 good teams and the rest is garbage

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