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Originally Posted by DevinHarriswillstart
Can the league keep surviving having two conferences that are total opposites? It's just an insult that you can be ten games under .500 in the east and still be in the playoff conversation. We would be third in the east which is shocking considering how the team has played since ASB.
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The thing is, the way the lottery is structured it artificially helps the west long term. First the western teams records are artificially depressed by played 68% of their games against the west when every western team but the clippers has a better record against the east then the west while the east's records are artificially inflated for the inverse reason. The biggest issue though is that teams like phoenix, new orleans(though im not sure if they will keep their pick) and utah which would all make the playoffs in the east get lottery picks to improve their young cores while teams like boston who would have no prayer at the playoffs are taken out of the lottery by being in the terrible east.
If new orleans somehow clevelands and wins the lottery despite the long odds, that team will be horrifying for years.(assuming the pick is protected enough they would get it)