There's still work to do, but the board of governors has approved some changes to the NBA's postseason tournament.
The NBA took another step towards fossilizing its division system earlier this week.
The Board of Governors unanimously decided to move away from geography and towards math by removing the automatic top-4 seed division winners were previously given. Within each conference, teams will be seeded 1-8 by record. They tweaked the home court advantage tiebreaker procedures as well by making head-to-head results the first tie breaker and moving division winners down to second.
The old method came under fire last season after the Los Angeles Clippers and San Antonio Spurs met in the first round despite the Spurs having a better record than the Portland Trailblazers.