It was the 9-7 tie with Den & Balt
Den 9-7 ... 7-5 conference
Balt 9-7 ... 7-5 conference.
Calculate common games. 12 conf games. Don’t count the head-to-head game between Den-BA. Leaves 11.
Den 7-4
Balt 6-5
2 of the 11 are not common games.
DEN was 0-2 in those games. Conf uncommon.
BA was 2-0 in those games. Conf uncommon.
Therefore, common games records were
Den 7-2
BA 4-5.
Denver has the common games tiebreaker with BA which matters in the 3-way tie Ba-Miami-Den.
Now that Den lost its 8th game, this ain’t gonna matter
Not sure what 9-7 means? Is that theoretical final record if they won out? They are 6-8 so not sure if that was what it was supposed to mean.