http://larrybrownsports.com/basketball/why-doesnt-the-nba-re-seed/406 Brown Bag it, Baby Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:14:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://larrybrownsports.com/basketball/why-doesnt-the-nba-re-seed/406#comment-3037 Gene Fri, 04 May 2007 17:34:34 +0000 http://larrybrownsports.com/2007/05/04/why-doesnt-the-nba-re-seed/#comment-3037 I couldn't have stated it any better myself. You are absolutely correct on all fronts. I would add one comment, and that is about the stupidity of calling Utah and Miami the #4 seeds. The NBA rules committee should change the rule so that the division winners can be guanranteed no worse than the #5 seed, not the number 4. Think about it, NBA. You want a division winner not to play the high seeds in round one. Well, #4 and #5 play each other, so that problem is solved. Since Houston and Chicago, the teams with the better records, got the home court, why go through the charade of calling them #5, when they have the home court advantage. Exactly what benefit was attained by Miami and Utah in being called the #4 seeds? They were in the same game, in the same bracket, against the same opponent, only the opponenet got the benefit of home court. That is an embarrassing situation, to say the least. Get with it, Stern and Company!!! I couldn’t have stated it any better myself. You are absolutely correct on all fronts. I would add one comment, and that is about the stupidity of calling Utah and Miami the #4 seeds. The NBA rules committee should change the rule so that the division winners can be guanranteed no worse than the #5 seed, not the number 4. Think about it, NBA. You want a division winner not to play the high seeds in round one. Well, #4 and #5 play each other, so that problem is solved. Since Houston and Chicago, the teams with the better records, got the home court, why go through the charade of calling them #5, when they have the home court advantage. Exactly what benefit was attained by Miami and Utah in being called the #4 seeds? They were in the same game, in the same bracket, against the same opponent, only the opponenet got the benefit of home court. That is an embarrassing situation, to say the least. Get with it, Stern and Company!!!

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