How do they determine home court advantage for the NBA playoffs?
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Home court is determined by your record during the regular season...there are two "best" records though.  You can have the best record in your conference, where you would have the home court throughout the playoffs...and then there is the best overall record (throughout the whole league) which means if you are able to make it to the finals you will have home court there as well.
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If at the end of the season, two or more players in a Head-to-Head League finish tied in the standings, the following system will be used to break the tie:\n\n   1. Overall winning percentage.\n\n   2. Highest winning percentage in Week 21.\n\n   3. Highest winning percentage in Week 20.\n\n   4. Highest winning percentage in Week 19.\n\n   5. Highest winning percentage in Week 18.\n\n   6. Highest winning percentage in Week 17.\n\n   7. Highest winning percentage in Week 16.\n\n   8. Highest winning percentage in Week 15.\n\n   9. Highest winning percentage in Week 14.\n\n  10. Highest winning percentage in Week 13.\n\n  11. Highest winning percentage in Week 12.\n\n  12. Highest winning percentage in Week 11.\n\n  13. Highest winning percentage in Week 10.\n\n  14. Highest winning percentage in Week 9.\n\n  15. Highest winning percentage in Week 8.\n\n  16. Highest winning percentage in Week 7.\n\n  17. Highest winning percentage in Week 6.\n\n  18. Highest winning percentage in Week 5.\n\n  19. Highest winning percentage in Week 4.\n\n  20. Highest winning percentage in Week 3.\n\n  21. Highest winning percentage in Week 2.\n\n  22. Highest winning percentage in Week 1.\n\n  23. Random "coin flip."\n\n\nIn the event that a playoff game ends in a tie, the deadlock will be broken using the following system:\n\n   1. Most team points scored.\n\n   2. Most team rebounds.\n\n   3. Highest team field goal percentage.\n\n   4. Highest team free throw percentage.\n\n   5. Fewest team turnovers.\n\n   6. Most team 3-point shots made.\n\n   7. Most team assists.\n\n   8. Most team steals.\n\n   9. Most team blocked shots.\n\n  10. Random "coin flip."
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You can go to NBA.com, MLB.com or other official website, they have online updating stats.  You can see the location of a pitch, or who shoot a ball from which angle.
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two different ways to do that:\n1. go to a stadium where a nba team are playing at the gametime or there is ballots, when you can write your players.\n\n2. Go to www.nba.com and there you will find the way to vote for your favorites players.
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The only feasible ways to do it are having the #4 and #5 team play in a preliminary round while #1, #2, and #3 all get byes.\n\nThen, #1 would face the winner of #4/5 and #2 would face #3 in the semifinals.\n\nOr, #2 would face #5 and #3 would face #4 in the first round, and the winners of #2/5 and #3/4 would face each other in the semifinals, all while #1 gets a bye straight through to the finals.\n\nThe first option is more equitable.
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probably not...the home teams wins game 7 in an NBA playoff series almost 80% of the time
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for sure, the Chicago bulls would end up at the bottom 4 of the eastern conference playoff line-up. \n\nSince the first round is a best of seven affair, the format would be 2-2-1-1-1\n\nthe Bulls would be away on Games 1, 2, 5 and 7 since the team they would be facing would have 4 games home court advantage compared to their 3. Bulls would host games 3, 4 and 6.\n\nMy prediction, Bulls vs. Pistons on 1st round.
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Rank players 1 through 16. Make sure all first-round matches have the ranks equal to 17 (i.e., 1 vs. 16, 2 vs. 15, etc., etc.)\n\nQuarterfinals -- 1/16 vs. 8/9, 5/12 vs. 4/13, 3/14 vs. 6/11, 7/10 vs. 2/15\n\nSemifinals -- winner of No. 1 seed bracket vs. winner of No. 4 seed bracket, winner of No. 2 seed bracket vs. winner of No. 3 seed bracket\n\nFinals -- Semifinal winners
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First click on "Sports", then go to the "MLB Home", then click "Standings".\n\nThere are 6 divisions, so you will see who is leading each division.  The playoffs start in October and all division winners advance PLUS 1 "wildcard" team from each league(American and National)...for a total of 8 teams in the playoffs.  The winners of each playoff series(best of 5 in first round, best of 7 in the Championship Series and World Series) advance to face each other until they reach the World Series.  The team that wins the World Series is the team that, as you say, would finish first.  \n\nChicago won it all last year, but this season we are in now is a brand new season, so actually the Chicago White Sox would be classified as the defending champions.
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At the end of the regular season the top seeded teams play bottom seeded teams.  For example:\n\n1st vs 8th\n2nd vs 7th\n3rd vs 6th\n4th vs 5th\n\nAnd from each round of playoff the top seeded team gets home-ice advantage.  To win a Stanley Cup a team must win 16 games.\n\nThe usual game time is 7PM local time but sometimes the games are played in the afternoon (usually on Sat. or Sun)
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Many experts will say that the bench is the weakest link on the Pistons. The bench does not need to score a lot for the Pistons to win. As long as the bench goes out every night and shows up, Detroit will be fine throughout the playoffs. Against the Heat, the main problem is obviously Shaq. This is when we will really see the bench's depth. The Pistons have multiple big men that they can throw at Shaq, making it a long series for the big fella.
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This is a hard question to answer, since you didn't explain if you wanted the final game 7 higest score or just the highest score in the championship series (best of 7) or in the whole playoffs. If you can clear this up in the details, I may be able to find it for you.
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Teams are seeded based on their conference records. Then they compete to see who is the best of all the teams in a tournament. The winner is automatically chosen for the NCAA tournament.  In other words if a team is not having a great season, they can still win their conference tourney and make the Big Dance! Arkansas did that a few years ago. They had a terrible year, but they won four straight games and made it. WOW!! :)
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The only correct answer from anybody is they do not know. It is too early in the season to give an accurate answer as to any NBA team making the playoffs right now.
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Detroit will win it because they will face the Spurs in the finals, and they have home court advantage this year so they will do better. And if they happen to play the Suns in the finals, they should kill them so easily. They could kill anybody really. Pistons didn't have the best record in the NBA for no reason.
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to determine the wild card, it's the 2 best teams from each conference who did not win their division (division winners automatically get a playoff spot).  if teams have the same record, you look at head to head matchup; if there is no head to head matchup, you look at conference record, then division record.
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First, this matchup is conjecture, but we can still make a guess.\n\nNothing is, of course, certain. That's how sports are, especially sports like basketball where players often find themselves shooting hot and doing no wrong or shooting cold and having nothing go right. On paper, the Pistons appear to be the superior team. While Duncan is arguably the best PF in the league, R.Wallace surely comes up in most people's discussions of the top-5. At center, Ben Wallace clearly has the advantage. Tayshaun Prince is judged by most to be the superior SF and one could argue that the Pistons likewise are better at both guard positions. Manu Ginobili is close if not slightly better than Hamilton, however, and it must be noted that Ginobili went crazy in last year's finals. San Antonio's bench is probably better, but Detroit has one of the best sixth men in the league in McDyess. Tony Delk is a good upgrade to Detroit's bench as well.\n\nMy prediction is Detroit, but this matchup would be a worthy repeat of a championship series.