MIAMI—The NBA has told teams that playoff seeding will be based on winning percentage, while any tiebreakers after that would follow the usual procedures.
It was an issue that needed clarity because the 22 teams going to the Disney complex near Orlando, Fla. for the planned resumption of the season next month will not have played the same number of games. The NBA notified teams in a memo late Friday.
Based on the plan to restart with regular-season games — eight per team — in late July, Dallas would end up playing an NBA-high 75 contests. Most others will play between 72 (the Raptors’ total) and 74; the low will be 71, which San Antonio and the Los Angeles Lakers will finish at if the NBA’s plans for teams to play eight games at the Disney complex before the playoffs begin comes to fruition.