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Phoenix Suns Owner Wants NBA To Abolish Playoff Seeding

By Bryan Rose

Apr 12, 2014; Dallas, TX, USA; A view of the Phoenix Suns logo before the game between the Dallas Mavericks and the Suns at the American Airlines Center. The Mavericks defeated the Suns 101-98. Mandatory Credit: Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports
Apr 12, 2014; Dallas, TX, USA; A view of the Phoenix Suns logo before the game between the Dallas Mavericks and the Suns at the American Airlines Center. The Mavericks defeated the Suns 101-98. Mandatory Credit: Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports /
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The NBA needs to remove playoff seeding so the best teams in the league all make the playoffs says Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver.

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Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver watched his team win 48-games last season, only to end up missing the postseason thanks to an extremely deep Western Conference.

Understandably that didn’t sit well and now Sarver wants the NBA to make changes, at least with how they seed playoff teams.

So what does he want? For playoff seeding to be completely abolished. It’s a bit of a crazy idea, but one that Sarver feels would benefit the league.

“It needs to be looked at,” Sarver told Grantland. “I’m getting closer to the point where I just think there needs to be a change. It is on the league’s radar screen now.”

Given the wound of missing the playoffs despite winning nearly 50-games is still fresh for Robert Sarver and the Phoenix Suns, it makes sense as to why he’d believe such would benefit the NBA. However, if you’re going to eliminate conferences when it comes to postseason seeding then there’s really little reason to have conferences at all.

That’s something Sarver did seem to suggest which makes his idea a bit more possible, though it doesn’t sound like Adam Silver and the NBA are all that open to the idea currently.

In all seriousness though, it’s not exactly a bad idea to have the best sixteen teams in the NBA participating in the postseason in comparison to teams like the Phoenix Suns who may not earn a playoff birth while a team in the Eastern Conference could sneak in with a sub .500 record.

It’s unlikely any spuriousness discussion regarding such wouldn’t happen until the NBA works on a new CBA.

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