I disagree... somewhat. There is an UNBALANCED schedule in the NBA. So consider this past season, I believe given the tiebreaker rules, the Clippers would have then been seeded ahead of us. BUT, if you EXCLUDE teams that the Rockets and Clippers did not play the same number of games against, from their records, and only count the performance against common opponents, including each other, their records are: Clippers = 39-21 Rockets = 41-19 Seems like a lot of teams to exclude, but each team plays 4 other teams I believe in the west 3 times, and those 4 other teams aren't the same for each team. For the Rockets and Clippers, you exclude their games against the Lakers, Kings, Blazers, Mavs, Pelicans and TWolves. They also play the Thunder only 3 teams, but both teams had the Thunder as one of their 3 games only groups, so I kept those records in. So I'm fine with getting rid of the division winner based seeding. But if you do that, I think you have to use the common opponents approach for tie-breakers, and not conference record.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Adam Silver says he expects Competition Commi reccomendation to seed playoffs 1-8 regardless of division will pass after teams discuss.</p>— David Aldridge (@daldridgetnt) <a href="https://twitter.com/daldridgetnt/status/621111430419316736">July 15, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
