In 19, the Eastern and Western Division champions were matched in a best-of-seven series following the regular season, whose winner advanced to the championship round. In all of its three years the BAA champion was finally determined in a best-of-seven series but its first two tournaments, the 19 BAA Playoffs, were otherwise quite different from the third, which 21st-century NBA playoffs nearly match. The National Basketball Association was established in 1949 by merger of the Basketball Association of America (BAA) and National Basketball League but it recognizes the three BAA seasons as part of its own history. This format has been used since 2014, after NBA team owners unanimously voted to change the format of the NBA finals from the 2–3–2 format on October 23, 2013. Once the playoffs start, the bracket is fixed teams are never " reseeded", unlike in the National Football League (NFL) where the strongest remaining teams face the weakest teams in subsequent rounds. Series are played in the 2–2–1–1–1 format, meaning the team with home-court advantage hosts games 1, 2, 5, and 7, while their opponent hosts games 3, 4, and 6, with games 5, 6 and 7 being played if needed. īoth conferences conduct the playoffs in the traditional bracket format. The tie-break criteria for playoff seeding and home-court use first head-to-head results between the tied teams is the first tie-breaker, and whether a team won its division championship is the second tie-breaker. The top six teams in each conference ( East and West), ranked in order by win-loss records, qualify for the playoffs. The 1st through 6th seeds will continue to use the same system that was enacted prior to the 2016 NBA playoffs. The ninth and tenth place teams play each other, with the loser being eliminated, and the winner playing the loser of the seven-eight game to determine who earns the eighth playoff seed. The seventh and eighth place teams play each other, with the winner being given the opportunity to play as the number seven seed of the playoff tournament. Within each conference, teams that finished ranked seventh through tenth play each other as follows. Officially considered a separate tournament, called the "play in tournament", it seeds the final two spots (the seventh and eighth seeds) of the main playoff brackets, using a four-team, three-game format. While the main tournament remains a 4-round, best-of-seven tournament, qualification for the playoffs has changed. Starting with the 2021–22 NBA season, changes to the playoffs enacted during the prior two Covid-shortened seasons were made permanent.
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