NBA Postseason Suggestions

This season's postseason just proves my continuing argument that the NBA needs to reconsider their playoff format. Their most recent mistake was making the first round best-of-seven series instead of best-of-five. This enhances the top seed's chances to win. My suggestion is to throw out the first round completely. What would this do? It would eliminate almost two and a half weeks of the NBA postseason. It would make the regular season more meaningful. It would eliminate teams with sub-.500 records competing in the postseason. It, in my opinion, would make the postseason better to watch. Looking at this years results thus far, no lower seeded team has won a series, including the conferences semi-finals. Sure, there was Golden State over Dallas last year and that was fun to watch. Was it worth the two and a half weeks? No. Even if Stern does not want to get rid of the first round, he desperately needs to move it back to five games. In EVERY series this year, including the conference semi-finals, every team that has led the series after FIVE games has won the best-of-seven series. None of this will ever change because of money, but just think about how successful baseball pennant races are and only 8 out of 30 teams make the playoffs rather than 16 out of 32. With that being said, I look forward to watching the remaining series, now that they actually mean something.