LAS VEGAS (CBSNewYork/AP) — Changes to the NBA playoffs are almost certainly coming.
Changes to the league’s much-discussed moratorium and Hack-a-Shaq aren’t, at least not now.
After meeting with the league’s Board of Governors on those and other topics Tuesday, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said that — as expected — the league is leaning toward eliminating any protection for division winners in playoff seeding going forward and instead placing the eight teams on the Eastern and Western Conference brackets based solely by record.
There was no vote Tuesday, though one is expected soon.
“It’s my expectation that that change will be adopted before the beginning of this coming season,” Silver said.