The West's 1-8 seeds are all within 4.5 games of each other! Incredible.

Seeds 1-7 are within 3.0 games of each other.

And the 5 best teams are within 2.0 games, and the 4 best teams are within 1.0 games.

Wow. Of course, it's still not quite the half-way mark in the season, but still.