but as it stands, I still think there should be a reward for winning your division. the counterargument is that some wildcards have better records, but oh well, win your division if you want home court. when most of the league makes the playoffs it's tough to argue that things aren't fair for the wildcards. plus hypothetically you could end up with a worse record than a wildcard team because you have a great division where everyone beats each other up and they have a shitty division (outside of the winner) that they get to beat up on. that's unlikely in basketball, but it could happen.