Rachel Nichols explains why 1-16 would never be a playoff format and why we're stuck with a 2 conference system with teams below .500 getting in

Rachel Nichols' Commentary on James Harden during his MVP year

Charania NBA Today on a Board of Governors vote expected for May 28 to make anti-tanking rule changes 18 teams in draft lottery seeds 7-15 in each conference flattened odds with bottom 10 teams having an 8 chance is the plan with the most momentum

Jeremy on the difference of regular and Playoff basketball

Sam Vecenie I was talking to a 1 in a front office and the thing they brought up to me about why they're okay with the lottery change was It's not that difficult to go from really bad to average it's really difficult to go from good to great In theory this makes that easier

Mike Breen 1st time everentire playoffs exclusive to national TVpoor decisionfans want to hear their home team announcers at least 1st roundpart of the family I get networks pay a fortunebut fans deserve to be thrown a boneThis is our final telecast of the season

Brad Stevens today - There were a lot of teams in the NBA playing for draft positioning this year And that won't be the case next year The league is gonna be a lot better the regular seasons gonna be a lot harder