Playoff seeding to go back to normal, no more preference for division winners.

[bessie_smith]

From the NBA's press release:
As part of the modifications, the eight playoff teams in each conference will be seeded in order of their regular-season record. Most recently, every division winner was guaranteed a top four seed in its respective conference regardless of its record but did not receive home-court advantage if its playoff opponent had

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[sauce1977]

I'm fine with top eight per conference but the top 16 and no conferences would be a disaster. Think of the ratings dearth when 4 Eastern teams out of 16 in that scenario get knocked out 1st round ... the more populous half of the country wouldn't bother watching (people are largely not like us, where we'll watch anything basketball).

Would def kill TV deal values for them, so I think this is the limit as far as their re-engineering is concerned.