Yesterday, the NBA revealed that division winners will no longer be given preference when it comes to playoff seeding:
The @NBA will now seed each conference strictly by record; no advantage for winning division. Great move by league for current landscape.
There's nothing particularly groundbreaking about this (more on that in a bit), but it's a good change considering the old rule made no sense whatsoever:
Each conference has three divisions, so there is some logic to giving the top three playoff seeds to each of the three division winners. But, that wasn't the case.