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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;NBA divisional champions will no longer be guaranteed a top four playoff seed.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The NBA announced Tuesday that changes to playoff seeding and qualifications have been unanimously approved by the league's board of governors&amp;nbsp;and will go into effect in the upcoming 2015-16 season.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The eight playoff teams in both Eastern and Western conferences will be sorted, respectively, by regular-season record. Division winners will no longer automatically receive a top four seed and home court advantage in the first round.&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2022 &lt;strong&gt;Roundtable: Which NBA star would make best talk-show host?&lt;/strong&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Board also approved changes in the playoff seeding tiebreaker system. Head to head results between two teams with the same regular-season record will become the first criterion. If two teams tied during the season, then whichever team won its division will be given the higher seed.&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Both changes were unanimously recommended by the NBA's competition committee prior to the board vote.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;-&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Jeremy Woo&lt;/em&gt;\r\n&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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