Both tournaments generated one finalist from the Eastern and one from the Western Division, but only by chance. In 1947, the Philadelphia Warriors won the runners-up bracket and beat the Western champion Chicago Stags four games to one, which the NBA recognizes as its first championship in 1948 Baltimore won the runners-up and beat Eastern champion Philadelphia in the final.
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#WESTERN DIVISION NBA SERIES#
Meanwhile, four runners-up played best-of-three series to determine the other finalist: the two second-place teams were matched in one short series and the two third-place teams in another the winners of those two series played another one. 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. Prior to 2016, this rule was also used for two-team ties, but only applied if the two teams have the same head-to-head record. In addition, once any team is eliminated from a tiebreaker, the evalation goes back to the first step for the remaining teams. Should three or more teams tie, any division leaders are given higher seeds regardless of any other criteria. Winning percentage against playoff teams in the opposing conference.Winning percentage against playoff teams in its own conference.Conference record better record in games against teams in its own conference.Division record better record in games against teams in its own division (Only if the teams are in the same division).Head-to-head record better record in games with the tied teams.If two or more teams within the same conference are tied in overall winning percentage, tiebreaker criteria are used to determine final rankings. Once the playoffs start, the bracket is fixed teams are never " reseeded", unlike in the National Football League and formerly the National Hockey League (until the wild card format introduced in the 2013–14 season) where the strongest remaining teams face the weakest teams in subsequent rounds. 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. 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.
Meanwhile, the ninth- and tenth-place teams play each other in an elimination game, with the loser being eliminated and the winner playing the loser of the seven-eight game in a final game to determine who earns the eighth playoff seed. Officially considered separate from the NBA playoffs, the NBA play-in tournament uses a modified Page playoff format in which the seventh- and eighth-place teams play each other in a qualification game, with the winner being given the opportunity to play as the seventh seed of the playoffs. Teams ranked seventh through tenth compete in the NBA play-in tournament for the seventh and eighth seeds. The top six teams in both the Eastern Conference and Western Conference, ranked by winning percentage, directly advance to the playoffs. From the 2022–23 NBA season, when an expansion to the postseason implemented during the prior three seasons (including two COVID-shortened seasons) was made permanent, the NBA made it clearly known that the playoffs were to remain a four-round, best-of-seven tournament (including the Finals), and that thus qualification criteria for the playoffs and postseason are no longer identical. Prior to the 2020s, the NBA playoffs were widely regarded to comprise the entirety of the NBA postseason, although some sources suggested the NBA Finals should be regarded as separate. An annual best-of-seven contest, the NBA playoffs are held after the league's regular season and its preliminary postseason tournament, the NBA play-in tournament. The National Basketball Association ( NBA) playoffs is the elimination tournament held to determine the league champion.
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