Sound Off: NBA Conference Disparity, Should It Be Fixed?

[schnaidt1]

ill just say what everyone is thinking. move memphis to the east. ..and expand by bringing back the super sonics. that leaves room to eventually bring 1 more expansion team for 32 teams like nfl.... then only half the teams make it to playoffs

[Majingir]

Quote: Originally Posted by schnaidt1

ill just say what everyone is thinking. move memphis to the east. ..and expand by bringing back the super sonics. that leaves room to eventually bring 1 more expansion team for 32 teams like nfl.... then only half the teams make it to playoffs

Have Seattle and KC as the expansion teams. Those are two cities which really should get both NBA and NHL teams. KC has an arena already set up to hold NBA/NHL games!

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New divisions: 4 teams per division or something 1: Celtics Knicks Nets 76ers 2: Magic Heat Wizards Bobcats 3: Raptors Pistons Cavs Pacers 4: KC Hawks Grizzlies Pelicans 5: Bulls Bucks Wolves Nuggets 6: Thunder Mavs Spurs Rockets 7: Kings Warriors Clippers Lakers 8: Blazers Sonics Jazz Suns

Nuggets are only team in this whole thing who don't benefit.

[hakeemdaprince]

Yea they need to mix it up,make it more,random but keep seed ranking

[TheRealHST]

Quote: Originally Posted by Majingir

This question is ALWAYS brought up in every single sports league anytime something like this happens.. The location of the teams isn't why some are good and others are bad, it's the management on the teams themselves. You have some markets that just care about making money, and others that care about winning(and need to win as well). It just seems like more of the markets that want to win are in the west.

THIS ... I think people tend to underestimate the damage horrible front offices, and owners can do to a franchise. There is no alignment that can fix some of these teams

[dodgerblue]

It's cyclical and happens in every sport. The pendulum will swing towards the east eventually.

[LingeringRegime]

I was listening to Mike and Mike this morning (something I rarely do) and Greenburg had a good idea.

The team that just barely misses the playoffs (like PHX this year) they would be awarded the 1st pick in the draft.

This is a great idea imo. You kill two birds with one stone. Eliminate tanking and the team that just misses gets a lot better for the next season. Teams that tank aren't rewarded.

[Majingir]

Quote: Originally Posted by LingeringRegime

I was listening to Mike and Mike this morning (something I rarely do) and Greenburg had a good idea. The team that just barely misses the playoffs (like PHX this year) they would be awarded the 1st pick in the draft. This is a great idea imo. You kill two birds with one stone. Eliminate tanking and the team that just misses gets a lot better for the next season. Teams that tank aren't rewarded.

But then the teams who do bad but don't tank,are basically stuck in that bottom hole with no way to fix themselves. It'll just help out the teams already somewhat good and then you'll have half the league being real great,and others with no hope of being good for quite some time and those are usually the ones with markets that NEED to see good basketball or else people won't show up.

I said it before, they should just have a rule like no team can have the same draft overall 2 times in a specific timespan(maybe every 10 years?). So we can't see a certain team land the 1st overall pick two times in a 3-4 year timespan or something like that.

[Cubfan]

Go from 16 to 8 teams if your not .500 or better your not good enough to make the playoffs. My biggest issue with the playoff is the amount of time it takes to play each series. To many off days between games. Teams have played back to back games all season long no reason it cant happen in the playoffs. The nba finals should be finishing up right now not just about to start.