With the new change in policy, it raises a question on the value of divisions within each conference.
The NBA Competition Committee decided to implement new changes to playoff seeding on Tuesday. Starting in the 2015-16 season, all teams' seedings will be determined first by regular season record. The previous rules guaranteed a division winner to get a Top-4 seed.
Part of the reason why this was done was because there have been situations where two very good teams would face each other much earlier in the playoffs due to a weaker division winning team earning a higher seed.