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Matthew Thomas Castleton said:
The Top 2 teams from each division make it automatically to the playoffs, while the final 4 playoff berths in each conference go to the 4 best overall records in each conference.
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That would be bs. If they did that, eventually one division might do terrible, only having one team in the top eight...

1. Oklahoma City Thunder
2. Los Angeles Clippers
3. Denver Nuggets
4. Portland Trailblazers
5. Golden State Warriors
6. Los Angeles Lakers
7. Seattle Supersonics
8. Utah Jazz
9. San Antonio Spurs

What would happen in this scenario since it would be the top two teams in each division, San Antonio would automatically be put in the top four and Utah would be pushed out of the playoffs. I assume that would be a pretty large controversy. Also, quite often a team or teams would be pushed out of the top four and have their home court advantage taken away. It should always be the top eight teams from each conference.

What they really ought to do is just remove divisions completely. They're pointless...
 
All finishing in the top two of your division would do is guarantee you a playoff spot, not a top four seed. Seeding would be determined by record.
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I see. But still... It seems pretty useless having two divisions with an uneven number of teams. I could see it if they were to add two expansion teams but god knows that's not what the NBA needs right now. The way the playoff system is right now is just fine. If they were to do anything, aside from a realignment, removing divisions completely would seem the most likely. Then again, that's just fixing something that's not broken.
 
This is a complicated move for both Seattle and Sacramento, who gets rights to the Kings history? Seattle won't want it, they will want their super sonics history back which I'm sure OKC will be more than happy to give back, Oklahoma wants nothing more than to get out of being the sonics shadow, this is their chance to completely break away and finally be their own franchise with no attachments to anything but Oklahoma. But then sacramento's history risks not being acknowledged and essentially dead until they get another team which could be years away... I feel bad for sacramento, it's vs and I couldn't imagine how upset I would be if something like this ever happened to the Jazz...
 
Tony said:
I see. But still... It seems pretty useless having two divisions with an uneven number of teams. I could see it if they were to add two expansion teams but god knows that's not what the NBA needs right now. The way the playoff system is right now is just fine. If they were to do anything, aside from a realignment, removing divisions completely would seem the most likely. Then again, that's just fixing something that's not broken.
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Perfect opportunity to create two extra teams for Vegas and St. Louis.
 
Or Kansas City and Sacramento... But oh lordy, so much more imbalance would be created.
 
Tony said:
Or Kansas City and Sacramento... But oh lordy, so much more imbalance would be created.
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I'd be much more inclined to see a franchise in Kansas City than Sacramento for a couple of reasons.
 
nightmare3983 said:
I doubt it since there are already cases of teams being in divisions that don't make much sense, like the Timberwolves and Thunder being in the Northwest division. I'd love to see the Thunder go to the Southwest division, both because that makes sense geographically and because it would get them out the same division as the Jazz. But there wouldn't really be any logical candidates to move to the Pacific division.
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The divisions need an overhaul. The goal should be to keep them as in the same latitude range as possible (because of time-zones, right now, the NW covers three timezones)

Pacific:
Seattle/Sacramento, Portland, GS, LAC/L (one time zone)

Midwest, Mountain, or something:
Utah, Denver, Phoenix, OKC, Minnesota (should only be two timezones)

Southwest
Same (one timezone)

This is a poorly put-together post. Oh well.
 
orangello said:
This is how I would like the Western Confrence to look:

Pacific-
Lakers
Clippers
Suns
Warriors
Spurs

Northwest-
Jazz
Trailblazers
Nuggets
Kings
Timberwolves

Southwest-
Grizzlies
Hornets/Pelicans
OKC
Rockets
Mavericks


Crazy I know. Go ahead and tell me why this doesn't work.
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Spurs in the Pacific is weird. It makes about as much sense as travel between Portland and Minnesota which you've also kept in there.
 
mellow said:
I'd rather see:

Pacific-
Lakers
Clippers
Kings/Sonics
Blazers
Warriors

Northwest- (obviously need a new designation)
Jazz
Suns
Nuggets
Timberwolves
Grizzlies


Southwest- (Texas)
Hornets/Pelicans
OKC
Rockets
Mavericks
Spurs
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We arrived at similar conclusions. I think either of the ideas we mentioned would be a significant improvement.

That is, until more teams get moved.
 
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