Nba playoff seeding rules. The team with the highest seed always gets four home games in a seven game series and also plays the first two games of the series. The nba added a new twist in the bubble playoff tournamentwhich allows the no. 9 seeds to have a play in game if certain criteria are met.
At the conclusion of the seeding games the seven teams in each conference with the best combined records across regular season games and seeding games would qualify for the playoffs. Miami the nba has told teams that playoff seeding will be based on winning percentage and that any tiebreakers necessary after that will follow the usual procedures. The following outlines the nbas playoff tie break rules and procedures based on the final regular season standings.
Each series in the nba postseason is played in a 2 2 1 1 1 format. Each returning team would play eight seeding games as selected from its remaining regular season matchups. There also will be a play in tournament for the no.
9 seed needs to be within four games of.
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