OT: NBA

[Joel S. Berson]

At 4/22/2012 11:39 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:

>But on the playoff point:  No, actually, the Celtics are guaranteed
>a *fourth* seed, not a third.  And they're not guaranteed home
>court; the Hawks are ahead of them for that right now, by one
>game.  Under the old rules, they would have indeed been guaranteed
>both third seed and home court, but that's been changed after a kind
>of odd situation a few years ago in which an inferior division
>winner ended up with home court advantage over a team with a much
>better record.  I know it's misleading that the fourth seed could
>lose the home court advantage over the fifth seed, but that's how it
>is.  So the Hawks don't need to catch the Celtics for fourth seed,
>they just have to finish with a better record.

As he (I) wrote.  And I think the Hawks still have two games left in
the season, so the Hawks could still lose their place, so the Knicks
game was important to the Hawks.

Joel

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