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Originally posted by Mutt
bout fucking time. Best of 5 is for sissies.
ATLANTA -- The NBA players' association and the league have agreed to expand the first round of the playoffs to a best-of-7 format starting this season, ESPN Insider's Chad Ford reported Saturday.
The players' association officially approved the change in format early Saturday. The league will make the official announcement tonight at a news conference in Atlanta.
Until this season, the first round of the NBA playoffs had been a best-of-5 format.
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I think the NBA setup is weird to start with. They play a whole season just for practice, apparently, and THEN they have this lengthy elimination process when they could just announce a winner at the end of the regular season. Don't you basketball lover see they have just figured out a way to create an artificial second season and wring even more dough out of you?