I was listening to a local radio show and the host was talking about how the NBA  playoffs need to be restructured. When you look at the Western conference you have to teams struggling to make the playoffs who have 40 or more wins however when you look the abysmal Eastern conference you have teams with just over 30 wins who have almost secured their playoff positioning. So i ask how is it fair that a team with 40 wins does not get in and a team with 30 wins does??

Well here is the system that was purposed you take the conferences and throw them out the window you take the top 16 teams and go brackets style the 1 seed plays the 16 seed the 2 seed plays the 15 seed and so on. In order for this system to work the regular season would have to be changed also so that everybody plays each team the same number times.

Lets take a look at the match ups with the purposed system

Standings as of March 24th 2008 4:10pm

1. Boston 55-14
2. Detroit 49-20
3.Los Angeles Lakers 48-22
4 New Orleans 47-21
5. Phoenix 47-22
6. Houston 47-23
7. San Antonio 47-23
8.  Utah 46-25
9. Orlando46-26
10. Dallas 44-26
11. Golden State 43-26
12. Denver 42-28
13. Cleveland 40-31
14. Portland 37-33
15. Toronto 35-35
16. Philadelphia 35-35

Outside looking in

17.Sacramento 31-38
18. Atlanta 30-39

What would the playoff match ups look like

1.Boston vs 16. Philadelphia
2. Detroit vs 15.Toronto
3. LAL vs 14.Portland
4. New Orleans vs 13.Cleveland
5. Pheonix vs 12. Denver
6. Houston vs 11. Golden State
7 San Antonio vs 10 Dallas
8. Utah vs 9. Orlando

Those are not all great match ups but think about it Boston vs Philadelphia not all that interesting i understand that but Phx vs Den and SAS VS Dal 1st round match ups wow wouldn't that be entertaining. Well those are my thoughts hope you enjoyed.