Effective immediately, the NBA's Eastern and Western Conference standings will be seeded by their regular-season record. Gone are the days where an inferior division leader gets no worse than a No. 4 seed in the NBA playoffs. It's now possible a team from any given division does not make the playoffs! (ahem, Atlantic.)
The NBA announced the change on Tuesday after an unanimous decision by the NBA Board of Governors. The changes were unanimously recommended prior to being voted on. Unanimous. Unanimous. The Board also approved head-to-head records as the first tiebreaker for playoff seeding and home court advantage.