LeBron James has been a fervent proponent of making the league a better place, empowering the likes of commissioner Adam Silver to take fast and swift action in hopes to re-assessing terms in the collective bargaining agreement, as well as bringing changes to the All-Star Game and its format.
Though one issue he has not agreed with is Silver’s consideration of a possible re-seeding of playoff teams by best record from 1-to-16, regardless of conference.
“I would disagree with that,” James told reporters. “There’s been dominant conferences throughout time.”
“It’s cool to mess around with an All-Star Game… but let’s not get too crazy about the playoffs.”
Silver had told reporters during All-Star Weekend that the league is looking to re-format the playoff structure because it “would like to have a format where your two best teams are ultimately going to meet in The Finals.”
This ultimately brought concerns, due to how teams could potentially have to travel coast-to-coast to play against each other, making it a nightmare under the current 2-2-1-1-1 format the league employs in the postseason.
Silver noted this was only brought up as a suggestion and would fine-tune the plan before bringing it to fruition.
James has gone to seven straight NBA Finals under this format and obviously has flourished under it — making it no surprise as to why he’d like to stick with the current process. But with the current wave of changes, including the salary cap, the draft pecking order and the increased TV revenue generated each year, it would be surprising if the advertisers would demand anything less than the very best product the NBA can offer, calling for Silver to make further changes every year.
