The <a href="https:\/\/news.thesportsdrop.com/nba/nba-playoffs-format-how-does-the-nba-postseason-work-126-20220502-SPD-126.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Philadelphia 76ers</a> have been swept once and knocked out twice in the postseason series since <a href="https:\/\/news.thesportsdrop.com/nba/2022-nba-playoffs-jimmy-butler-still-believes-in-heat-despite-sixers-wins-591-20220509-SPD-591.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Jimmy Butler</a> joined the <a href="https:\/\/news.thesportsdrop.com/nba/not-even-lebron-james-could-do-it-jonathan-kuminga-becomes-nbas-youngest-player-ever-to-start-in-playoffs-559-20220508-SPD-559.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Miami Heat</a> three years ago.



The Heat have made it to their second Eastern Conference finals appearance in three years after defeating the Philadelphia 76ers. On the other hand, the 2020 NBA Finals saw them make it to the finals.



Butler left the Sixers for greater and better things, yet the team has stayed stagnant, even after many roster changes.



<h2>Joel Embiid confused why Sixers let Jimmy Butler go</h2>



To make matters worse, Butler’s heroics in the game must have felt like icing on the cake for the Sixers. Because of his outstanding performance, <a href="https:\/\/news.thesportsdrop.com/nba/2021-22-nba-mvp-award-nikola-jokic-edges-out-giannis-antetokounmpo-and-joel-embiid-736-20220513-SPD-736.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Joel Embiid</a> expressed his regret at not having Butler as a teammate after the Heat won the series-clinching game on Thursday evening.



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote">“I’m happy for him. I won’t sit here and say I didn’t wish he was my teammate. I still don’t know how we let him go. But I wish I could have gone to battle with him still. But it is what it is. Just got to keep building and keep trying to reach that goal.Obviously, that’s my guy, that’s my brother. I mean, it’s tough. But I’m so proud of him. He’s playing at an unreal level right now. He’s something else right now. And I’m proud of him for being at this level and carrying them and what he’s been able to do.”<cite>Embiid said of Butler after the game</cite></blockquote>

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NBA News: 76ers' Joel Embiid perplexed as to why they let Jimmy Butler leave after defeat to Heat

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The NBA Playoffs are the postseason event hosted by the National Basketball Association (NBA) to select the league’s champion. Annually, the NBA playoffs are a best of seven competition that follows the NBA regular season and its preparatory postseason event, known as the NBA Play-In Tournament.



The NBA’s seeding formula stayed essentially similar after the reorganization of the two conferences into three divisions. The top three seedings will henceforth be reserved for division winners. It was, however, determined that if the two teams with the best records from a conference were in the same division, they would be seeded first and fourth. No first-round shocks elevated the possibility of a conference semi-final instead of a final matchup between the league’s two best teams.



The 2004-05 and 2005-06 NBA playoff formats were controversial, and they would be modified before the 2006-07 season in the NBA. Division winners had a lock on the top two seeds in the NBA playoffs prior to the 2004 realignment of the league into two conferences with two divisions each. This meant that the top two teams in a conference would never play until the conference finals if both made it that far.



<h2>NBA Playoffs explained</h2>



NBA playoffs were usually considered to be the whole of the NBA postseason before the 2020s, while other sources argue that they should be considered different from the NBA playoffs altogether. While the NBA has traditionally used the term “playoffs” to designate its premier postseason competition, the term “postseason” has become a colloquial shorthand.



After two seasons of Covid-shortened play, an expansion to the playoffs was made permanent for the 2021-22 NBA season. This marked the beginning of a new era for the league. This year’s NBA Playoffs will still feature a four-round, best-of-seven series (including the championship game), however, there will be differences between the playoff and postseason qualifying requirements.



Officially distinct from the NBA Playoffs, the NBA Play-In Tournament uses a four-team, three-game structure to seed the last two positions (the seventh and eighth seeds) in the main playoff brackets. Third through sixth-place finishers in each conference play each other. The tournament’s modified page playoff format pits the seventh and eighth-place teams against one another, with the victor advancing to the playoff round as the number seven seed.



There are two games in which the ninth and tenth place teams compete for the eighth playoff spot. The ninth-place team is eliminated, while the 10th-placed team is pitted against the seventh-place team. For the playoffs, the top six teams in each conference (East and West) are seeded according to their winning percentage. There are two tie-breaking factors for playoff seeding and home-court advantage: first, the outcomes of the tied teams’ head-to-head matches; second, if a club has won its division title.

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