Why is this called the "divisional round"

beenz

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Before they expanded to 4 divisions it made sense. The first weekend used to only be WC teams.

how cant that be? before there were four divisions in each conference, there were 3. thus, a division winner still played in the wild card round back then.
 
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The name isn't great, but it's usually because most the division winners are playing eachother this round.

Funny because it didn't work out that way at all this year. But there still is a majority division winners playing 5 to 3 wildcards
 

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It's probably because there are four teams in each conference this round, and there are four divisions in a respective conference.
I don't think playoff "divisional" = regular season divisions.
 
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