Finally NBA Expected to Change how Playoff Seeding works

Commisioner Adam Silver will make some changes before the start of the season

Commish Adam Silver is finally considering changing how playoff seeding is done, after last years scenario. He mentioned that there were some gaps and changes that need to be made and so now they are acting on it. While nothing is final yet, it looks like this new change would happen before the start of the season.  Commish also commented on hack-a-shaq strategy and DeAndre Jordan's free agency fiasco.

Per the Associated Press:

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. [...] “It’s my expectation that that change will be adopted before the beginning of this coming season,” Silver said.

The league has an annual window starting July 1 where deals can be agreed to, but not finalized while the salary numbers and other financial matters for the coming year are being crunched. And it got tons of attention this year when DeAndre Jordan committed to the Dallas Mavericks, then changed his mind and stayed with the Los Angeles Clippers. [...] “I’m not sure it was his proudest moment either,” Silver said. [...] “It was not a great look,” Silver said. “It’s not what we want to see happen in the moratorium period. It wasn’t created so players could enter into in essence oral agreements only to have those agreements superseded by binding agreements. Of course, under our collective bargaining agreement, there’s no dispute that only a signed agreement is binding. But there was a breakdown in the system to a certain extent.”

Ratings for NBA games don’t show that people aren’t watching because of Hack-a-Anyone. And it might serve as a signal to young players about the importance of making foul shots. [...] “There is a sense, especially from the basketball people, that it would be sending the wrong message to the larger basketball community — particularly youth basketball — to de-emphasize the need for guys to hit free throws,” Silver said.