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[QUOTE="HRE Otto IV, post: 2847793, member: 5685"]
1. Has there ever been parity?

2. My point is the top 2-3 teams are typically way better than the 6-9 teams every year. So why let teams 6-8 join the party if they are just sacrificial lambs 98% of the time?

IMO the majority of the NBA playoffs is a waste of time. Since expanding to 8 seeds in 1984 (35 seasons) there have been 70 teams in the NBA Finals. Of those 82.9% were 1 or 2 seeds. Adding in the 3 seed you get 92.9% and 97.1% with the 4 seed. What is the point in evening having seeds 5-8 if they have made 2.9% of the NBA Finals? I don’t want that for college football. The Knicks making it as an 8 seed does not justify the other 69 teams making it as an 8 seed.

Imagine if the NBA just allowed the three divisional winners and a playin game vs two wildcard teams? Everybody would be on pins and needles the entire season. The divisions would actually mean something again. I bet most millennials don’t even know what an Atlantic division is.
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