Playoff tweaks likely, says Silver

Changes to the NBA playoffs are almost certainly coming.

Changes to the league's much-discussed moratorium and Hack-a-Shaq are not - at least not now.

After meeting with the league's board of governors on those and other topics on Tuesday, NBA commissioner Adam Silver said that - as expected - the league is leaning toward eliminating any protection for division winners in playoff seeding and instead placing the eight teams on the Eastern and Western Conference brackets based solely by record.