April 15, 2009 6:30 am

Top 12 ways to improve the NBA Playoffs

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12. If a team wins a playoff series on the road, it gets to take the home team’s cheerleaders as their own

11. Disqualify the Spurs and Pistons, just to ensure that we never see them meet in the Finals ever again

10. Televise the pre-game discussion between the refs and star players, so we can be surprised by any “swerve” endings

9. Bring back the in-series Kobe Bryant rape trial, just for the incredible awkwardness it provokes from the announcing team

8. Actually have the worse team win a series or two, just to keep the gamblers on their toes

7. Mascot-on-mascot violence, preferably with criminal intent and prosecutions

6. Give Mark Cuban a mic, and give NBA fans the ability to electrocute him through it, just to see if he ever drops it

5. Change the early rounds to a best of an even number to underscore the importance of math to the youth of America

4. Cut the days between games down to five or less, from the current nine

3. Make President Obama fill out a bracket, so we can all bet his winning pick and end the recession

2. Announce that, as a special one game promotion, traveling will be called

1. Bring back Bill Walton, just so we can make him go away again

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