Should the NBA followed MLB's model and have only four teams

[Falcon63]

I agree, but it means less money and TV ratings for the NBA, so they'd never do it. Too greedy.

[fallacy]

Maybe we should just cut march madness down to 16 teams instead of 68

[Doctor MJ]

make the playoffs from each conference every year? Let's face the facts. There are only five or six teams in any given year that have a legitimate shot at taking home the title. It doesn't make much sense to have 16 playoff teams. If the NBA has only eight teams make the playoffs every year, every regular season NBA game becomes more meaningful. There will be fewer teams who play like they're on auto-pilot. The NBA playoffs is way too long anyway. What's wrong with reducing a couple weeks to the postseason?

Your points regarding the NBA are good one's to consider.

Understand an irony though: It's the NBA's predictability that allows that extra round of playoffs to be harmless in terms of competition. MLB's danger with adding playoffs is that the sport is so random that adding playoffs just make it less and less likely the team that wins it all actually is the best team.

[CoffeeJanitor]

make the playoffs from each conference every year? Let's face the facts. There are only five or six teams in any given year that have a legitimate shot at taking home the title. It doesn't make much sense to have 16 playoff teams. If the NBA has only eight teams make the playoffs every year, every regular season NBA game becomes more meaningful. There will be fewer teams who play like they're on auto-pilot. The NBA playoffs is way too long anyway. What's wrong with reducing a couple weeks to the postseason?

Your points regarding the NBA are good one's to consider.

Understand an irony though: It's the NBA's predictability that allows that extra round of playoffs to be harmless in terms of competition. MLB's danger with adding playoffs is that the sport is so random that adding playoffs just make it less and less likely the team that wins it all actually is the best team.

Baseball is not random. I don't get where people get this nonsense idea.

[SaveOurBullets]

make the playoffs from each conference every year? Let's face the facts. There are only five or six teams in any given year that have a legitimate shot at taking home the title. It doesn't make much sense to have 16 playoff teams. If the NBA has only eight teams make the playoffs every year, every regular season NBA game becomes more meaningful. There will be fewer teams who play like they're on auto-pilot. The NBA playoffs is way too long anyway. What's wrong with reducing a couple weeks to the postseason?

Your points regarding the NBA are good one's to consider.

Understand an irony though: It's the NBA's predictability that allows that extra round of playoffs to be harmless in terms of competition. MLB's danger with adding playoffs is that the sport is so random that adding playoffs just make it less and less likely the team that wins it all actually is the best team.

Baseball is not random. I don't get where people get this nonsense idea.

It kind of is. Every team typically has a winning percentage between .400 and .600, not that big, and the playoffs are always unpredictable.