ESPN's Zach Lowe says he wants the NBA to allow the top seeds to pick their first-round opponents in the playoffs
The No. 8 seed Heat made it to the NBA Finals, falling to Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets. The only team to accomplish the feat was the New York Knicks in 1999.
"It just makes too much sense in the Play-In era where you can have a team that has a randomly bad season lose in the first Play-In game and end up in the eighth seed," Lowe said Thursday on ESPN's NBA Today. "And you don't want to play them. Give me the bulletin board material of the No. 1 seed picking their first-round opponent
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