The Clippers are safely into the playoffs, but head coach Doc Rivers has some qualms about how his team's opponent will be determined.
Los Angeles will receive at least the third seed in the Western Conference, but since division winners are guaranteed a top-four seed under the NBA's current seeding system, it may be forced to play a team with a better record that is displaced by a division winner.
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In the competitive West, that could mean a first-round matchup against the Grizzlies, Rockets or Spurs, all of which have better regular season marks than the Northwest Division champion Trail Blazers.
"That's a flaw," Rivers said, according to ESPN Los Angeles' Arash Markazi . "I think the divisions are important. They're nice to have. They're nice to be celebrated, for some and some not, but I don't know if they should be celebrated as far as in the standings. I think it's something that the league will absolutely look at and try to fix. You shouldn't be rewarded if your record [isn't as good as others]."
While he thinks some change would be positive, Rivers isn't ready to go as far as eliminating divisions and conferences all together, citing that conference dominance tends to be cyclical.
"I just think we forget in the '80s this was how the East and the West looked, but it was the East," Rivers said, per Markazi. "We forget that. The West is great right now; in five or six years, it may flip. You just don't know that it's one of those periods in time. It sucks for teams like the Phoenix Suns last year. They would have been a fifth seed in the East. It sucks for those teams."