West Execs tired of the East being trash.
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THIS AINT THE 2000S
WHEN EVERY WEST PLAYOFF TEAM
WON 50 GMS
WHILE THE EAST HAD TEAMS
WITH UNDER 40 WINS.
HEAT WON 46 GM LAST SEASON
AND THE LAKERS WON 47 GM
THOSE WERE THE PLAYOFF
TEAMS WITH THE LOWEST NUMBER OF WINS
It’s been a long time since the East has been good top to bottom. They’ve had Lebron and Jordan the last 30 years and if it wasn’t for that it’d be fairly bleak.
I think the H2H will get smaller as the season goes on
Right now the bottom 5 teams in the East have played nearly twice as many games against the West as the top 5 teams.
Literally the Raptors have played more games against the West than the Celtics, Cavs & Knicks combined
Also the East won the H2H in 2 of the last 3 previous seasons
Right now the bottom 5 teams in the East have played nearly twice as many games against the West as the top 5 teams.
Literally the Raptors have played more games against the West than the Celtics, Cavs & Knicks combined
Also the East won the H2H in 2 of the last 3 previous seasons
tremonthustler1
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not gonna matter as long as the West still plays a weighted schedule towards their own conference.
someone has to be the bottom team in the West. That affects things and even then, the East has had super high picks.
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This ain’t the first time that’s been proposed lol. If execs was that pissed, they’ve had multiple moments - Covid pause, lock out pauses, CBA re-negotiations - to try to knock on Silver’s door.
Every US sport has to have conferences. I know they love the Premier League and all that, but you gotta at least make it feel familiar for fans. You’re also probably getting like 10 Western teams out of that 16. You may lose out on some pretty major eastern markets doing that…
Every US sport has to have conferences. I know they love the Premier League and all that, but you gotta at least make it feel familiar for fans. You’re also probably getting like 10 Western teams out of that 16. You may lose out on some pretty major eastern markets doing that…
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Philly and Cleveland had like 6 number one overall picks in the 2010s alone
I know you’re a troll breh but cmon
Put in Auburn in Conf USA
why? what has he suggested doing?
For starters, 15 games isnt enough to bury an NBA team. That the equivalent of 3 NFL games. If an NFL team starts 1-2, nobody is saying their season is over. Lakers were ass cheeks 2 years ago to start and made the CF.
I have long supported 1-16. You want the best teams in and it can help to protect against CF is the real Finals stuff. That said, you have the play in now so nobody is getting left out. And that is overblown anyway. We had a near 50 win west team miss the playoffs 15 or so years ago and people act like its a yearly thing. Its not. And west champs roll through the west with ease just as often as east champs.
And more importantly we do not need two more teams. I know its inevitable but that doesnt change the fact that we dont need them.
I have long supported 1-16. You want the best teams in and it can help to protect against CF is the real Finals stuff. That said, you have the play in now so nobody is getting left out. And that is overblown anyway. We had a near 50 win west team miss the playoffs 15 or so years ago and people act like its a yearly thing. Its not. And west champs roll through the west with ease just as often as east champs.
And more importantly we do not need two more teams. I know its inevitable but that doesnt change the fact that we dont need them.
every goofy tournament/all star game, play in nba change they've made since Silver took over.
It's odd that this comes up so often.
The league has rejected it a number of times, and each time the reasons given are fairly concrete.
It's not like anything has changed to make this more viable now.
NHL, MLB, NBA, and NFL all do conferences, to balance out schedules. NBA always has seemed to hate the idea, they even did away with awarding division winners any type of advantage in the playoffs lol.
Thery so desperately want to ditch the division structure, but ditching divisions means playing a round robin, 29x3 is 87, too many games so thats a no-go.
29x2 is 58, 24 games less than the league currently plays. thats 12 home 12 away, or almost 1/3 of any given owners home games per year. lol. those 24 games arent going anywhere.
so if youre not going to have a round robin nba style schedule, ever, then youre going to need to play an imbalanced schedule. and if youre going to play an imbalanced schedule you need to make it fair for every team, which means the schedule needs to be formulaic, which means you need divisions.
snake eating his own tail when it comes to getting rid of the conference system.
or, as adam silver has said:
"Ultimately [two years ago] we concluded that given all the focus on sports science, health of our players and impact of travel, it didn't make sense, at least at this time, to move to a rebalanced schedule because we played an imbalanced schedule," Silver said at the board of governors news conference Wednesday.
"Ultimately I don't recall the precise calculations, but it resulted in significantly more travel for our teams, especially for those teams on the coast. So the conclusion was at least, given the state of science on travel, we are better off staying in the conference system the way we have it and of course same implications for the playoffs. The notion of having teams crisscrossing the country in the first round didn't seem to make sense to our teams."
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The league has rejected it a number of times, and each time the reasons given are fairly concrete.
It's not like anything has changed to make this more viable now.
NHL, MLB, NBA, and NFL all do conferences, to balance out schedules. NBA always has seemed to hate the idea, they even did away with awarding division winners any type of advantage in the playoffs lol.
Thery so desperately want to ditch the division structure, but ditching divisions means playing a round robin, 29x3 is 87, too many games so thats a no-go.
29x2 is 58, 24 games less than the league currently plays. thats 12 home 12 away, or almost 1/3 of any given owners home games per year. lol. those 24 games arent going anywhere.
so if youre not going to have a round robin nba style schedule, ever, then youre going to need to play an imbalanced schedule. and if youre going to play an imbalanced schedule you need to make it fair for every team, which means the schedule needs to be formulaic, which means you need divisions.
snake eating his own tail when it comes to getting rid of the conference system.
or, as adam silver has said:
"Ultimately [two years ago] we concluded that given all the focus on sports science, health of our players and impact of travel, it didn't make sense, at least at this time, to move to a rebalanced schedule because we played an imbalanced schedule," Silver said at the board of governors news conference Wednesday.
"Ultimately I don't recall the precise calculations, but it resulted in significantly more travel for our teams, especially for those teams on the coast. So the conclusion was at least, given the state of science on travel, we are better off staying in the conference system the way we have it and of course same implications for the playoffs. The notion of having teams crisscrossing the country in the first round didn't seem to make sense to our teams."
No plans to rebalance conferences, says Silver
NBA commissioner Adam Silver touched on several topics at the board of governors meeting Wednesday, including the balance of power in the East and West, playoff seeding, tanking and the age limit to enter the league.
gotcha, my bad. i thought you were saying he had good ideas to fix it and was waiting in the wings lol
MooseMouthMthafuga
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It's bizarre how some people still think the draft is left up to chance.A billion dollar industry leaving the future of their league up to chance!?
.2019 was the most obvious shyt ever.They razzle dazzle'd the whole draft lottery getting AD to LA with Bron.So obvious, a fool could see it.Playing right in your face.You have those people that say "Bu bu bu they hire a company to do the lottery.Team representatives are there to witness it!"..But I'm sure that all falls in the section code of "entertainment".Similar to kangaroo court.It's a mockery.A script/production.They're not being paid to actually do the draft.They're just part of the act.Another stooge in the play being paid to appear like they're actually conducting the lottery process.I'll go to my grave believing that
Ozymandeas
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Personally, if it was ME, I wouldn't care. I'd be happy to play anywhere and make millions but, NBA players think most of the eastern cities are trash.
It seems like the only real destination that players love on the East Coast is Miami.
Now on the West Coast, you have the Lakers, the Clippers (just for being in LA), Houston, Dallas, Phoenix, Golden State, Denver, etc.
Players rather be there than playing in Indiana or in Milwaukee.