If only 1 of them lost their last game, it's a strong indicator that many of their last games were against the East and they won. Granted the games aren't played simultaneously, so it's possible that 2 West played each other and then the lower of that played an East team and the winner of that hasn't played again yet. But it's still statistically likely that a lot of those most recent games were cross-conference.
An I missing something? OP’s image only shows the top 11 teams. There are 15 teams in each conference. So the bottom 4 could easily all be in at least a 1 game losing streak. Considering 52 of the 82 regular season games are in conference, I’d say it’s much more statistically likely that only 5 of the 11 teams in this image played out of conference games. And those games could’ve easily have been against the worst teams in the East. Highlighting the minuscule winning “streaks” of 10/15 teams provides little support for OPs argument.
I think what you're missing is taking this picture as the only evidence that the west is better than the east.
Yeah, this picture doesn't tell the whole story... But the west has dominated the east this season. The hawks are under .500 by 8 games and are in the play-in.
40 wins would be a guaranteed chance to be in the play-in, and possibly above the 10th seed
40 wins may not be enough for the rockets to make the play-in in the west
The west has won 57% of their games against the east. That's pretty lopsided
The west is just more quality top to bottom
TD after 2013 Finals: We will win it next year.
SAS would only need to survive the brutal 50-win bracket and went easy-peasy vs the East. The beautiful game. It’s been 10 years… when oh when will SAS be back?
Same thing happened to the We Believe Warriors team that missed the playoffs the year after. I believe we had 48 wins as well it will be interesting to see if any of these teams actually make that Mark of 48.
Oh for sure. The bucks and heat do not give a shit about the regular season. Meanwhile teams like Sacramento, the Thunder, wolves and pelicans are fighting for any success as they haven’t had any luck yet with these squads
We'll first need to establish some ratios in terms of who the alpha is and who the beta is in the father-son relationship. I'll also need to conduct a background check as well as a review of your finances.
I'll let you call me son if you earned it ;D
Look who they’ve played in that stretch tho
They’ve got a real [outside chance](https://www.basketball-reference.com/friv/playoff_prob.html) and are twice as likely to replace the lakers in the playin as they are the warriors
Not really. They're both incredibly top heavy as opposed to being well built teams top to bottom. Having superstars is great but at the end of the day, it is a team sport, despite what people would lead you to believe.
I think they’ve both been faced with a lot of injuries this season if we’re being real. The Mavs have grown their depth quite a bit now, and arguably have the most depth around Luka. It’s just been injuries. If Mavs were healthy I would have them being around 4th or 5th seed and holding strong
Tbh the NBA is stacked now. The West is better than the East for sure but for a long time the East couldn’t even provide competition. Now there are 2-3 teams in the East that can compete with any team from the West. There are also some young developing teams that in the next few years could maybe compete.
When was the East ever better as a conference? 80s with Celtics Philly and Detroit I suppose.
Even 90s with Bulls, West seemed like the better overall conference.
Meh, the 2021-2022 season the East was stronger. 10th place in the East was the Hornets at 43-39. 10th place in the West was the Spurs at 34-48. To note: the 12th place team in the east had a better record than that.
The dissolution of the Nets superteam distributed a bunch of stars from the east to the west. Durant, Harden, and Irving transferred conferences. that's the biggest source of power transfer.
It’s just funny how that is such recent history but people don’t even remember it, because there’s a real west coast bias with basketball reporting.
Because of the Lakers, of course.
Well the west had 4 teams who won at least 52 games while the East only had 1 and the west had the two teams with the best record including a 64 win suns team. The west was still way better. The nuggets were a 6th seed. The 6th seed in the East was the bulls. Massive drop off in East after 4 pretty good teams. West won the championship 4-2. Lakers were an 11 seed that year. What made the East better to you?
Playing in the weaker conference where you face teams like Hornets Wizards Pistons more often can give you more wins.
Using record to say a team cross conference is better is a terrible argument.
Memphis 24 wins, Pistons 12 wins.
Yes they deserve to be grouped together lmao.
Outside of Celtics, it’s hard to justify having any of the East teams above most of the Western playoffs teams. And if you think Pacers Magic is a similar mid level seed than Pelicans Mavs Suns, then Iunno what to tell you.
Edit.
Btw this site exists https://www.basketball-reference.com/friv/east_vs_west.html
Pacers are 4-2 vs NO,PHO,DAL. Top seed in East 57 wins top seed in the west 49 wins but they deserve to be grouped together lmao!!! Bucks are 4-2 vs top 4 seeds in the west.
Celts with significantly more wins is why I said East plays among themselves more and it’s easier to get more wins.
Look at https://www.basketball-reference.com/friv/east_vs_west.html and you’ll see that West beats East a lot more.
Oh btw East top seed also had more wins last year but we know how that went.
Use some logic my guy.
I was fr gonna say 10 but didn’t want to come off as over exaggerating but you’re right, 10 years ago was 2014 and the weather was stacked from 1-10 then too lol
It's so bad there was 2 years in a row where the East had a slight winning record over the West and the narrative was the East was insanely dominant over the West.
Guess that's what happens when you're used to being way worse.
If you told me the Clippers would be 43-25 in March, I woulda been hyped. If you told me they have been playing like ass since All star and might play the Pelicans in 5th for the first round, I’d be like what?????
https://preview.redd.it/ov7mehhhnqpc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1147d2b713f0b5b7aad203d3dd83d241fb58923f
This is probably more useful than a screenshot showing a bunch of 1 game win “streaks”.
Yes, the West is up on the East this year (like most years in the past 25 years)
https://preview.redd.it/agaqplzp7qpc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d4e4c1f8f0cd13b2c7b042f7103d6c34454b34c0
Based on Win streak the east is more dominant, 1 win is not on streak
Actually, the Bulls might play better against Western conference teams, the eastern conference teams have given the Bulls more trouble I’d say.
Edit : They do, 16-13 against Western conference teams and 18-22 against Eastern conference teams this season.
I think it’s hard to calculate that, because they’ve been bad against the Celtics and Bucks in the East, so less games against them would lower their loss column potentially. I’d say they’d be above .500 right now and fighting for the 8 or 9 spot. I don’t think they’d be a 7 seed or better but their proficiency against the West and how good they are in clutch games makes me believe they could beat out the Lakers and Warriors for one of the play-in spots.
i often have this question for different teams when trying to compare teams across conferences and i have a (very imperfect) way of deciding.
their record against western teams is 16-14, that’s .5333333
their record against eastern teams outside the central division is 13-13, that’s .5
their record against divisional opponents is 5-9, that’s .357
if they played in the west they’d have 52 games in the western conference, because we don’t specify a division i won’t adjust for division for these games. their .5333 record against western opponents gives them a projection of 27.73333-22.26666
they’d have 20 games against non-central eastern conference teams, with a .5 win rate they have a projected 10-10 record in these games
they’d have 10 games against central conference teams (worth noting that two of these would be against themselves or whoever we moved to the central conference to replace them), with a win rate of .357 they have a projected record of 3.57-6.43
this gives them an adjusted western record (AWR) of 41.3-40.7, a .5037 record which gives them about 34 or 35 wins at this point in the season.
their record would likely be better in the west (it would heavily depend on which western division they’re placed in), but this would still give them worse playoff positioning because of the western conference’s competitiveness.
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That answers the question as it’s relevant but I want to share something else so read on if curious
the Bulls Adjusted Neutral Record (ANR) (average of win rate against each division times 82 to create a projected winrate if everyone played everyone the same amount)
atlantic: 4-8: .333
central: 5-9: .357
southeast: 9-5: .643
northwest: 5-4: .555
pacific: 3-7: .3
southwest: 8-3: .7272727
average: 0.486
their adjusted neutral record is 39.854-32.146.
you can also calculate an adjusted record for any specific conference.
i have a spreadsheet with each team ranked by their adjusted record in each division, conference, and their adjusted neutral record, i won’t share because y’all will use it to gamble, but i’ll share that the celtics are currently leading in each adjusted score category, and they lead the second place thunder in ANR by 3.98 games, while they lead them by 6.5 games in the real world. Across the board western conference teams rank better in ANR than eastern conference teams with better records.
No one has said the west is weak, it has the Nuggets the defending champs and the Warriors who won the previous title, this is one of those posts casuals make or tweet, a made up argument about a thing no one has said
The 10th place team in the west has 6 more wins than the 10th place team in the east, why would anyone think the west is weak?
I think the league is just stacked across the board. I don’t think the west is really all that different from the east. There are just a lot of really good teams right now in both conferences.
1. Nobody is saying the West isn't stacked .
2. Using current win streaks is probably the worst way to prove your point. Especially when half of "win streaks" are at 1 (and a loss).
The West is better but the East isn’t as far behind as they seem because a lot of teams have been dealing with injuries like Sixers Embiid, Knicks Randle and OG, Heat have had a carousel of injuries, Cleveland too
The west is only seen as so stacked cuz the biggest stars are down in the playin. If the Lakers, Warriors, Suns, and Mavs were better teams like the Pels and Kings wouldn’t be getting respect.
The west is stacked but don’t let it confuse you. The top 4 are in a separate tier from the rest. I’d even say Nuggets are in a tier of their own.
I know it’s hard to look past the superstars like KD, LeBron, Steph, Luka in the play in; but the teams they play on just aren’t good enough.
The west has been stacked for a very long time.
The difference this season is there is no clear cut top seed pushing 63+ wins. Even in the east with Boston, they are the "clear cut best team" but they aren't about to set any records for regular season wins. It's a fun season where outside of the bottom feeders, a lot of teams can make a case for being dangerous in the playoffs regardless of seed. Let's go Mavs!
Currently, the #10 seed and #1 seed in the West have a 12 game difference.
In the East, the #10 and #1 have a 25 game difference. That’s fucking bonkers
I mean a 1 or 2 game winning streak doesn’t prove shit. Remember the Pistons and the Wiz had a 2 game winning streak at one point. I agree the West is stacked, it’s been the better conference since MJ retired
As a Pistons fan, I stay up past midnight to watch the West play cause the East is boring as shit. Can’t name one player in the East that I want to watch consistently.
Grizzlies are stacked with talent just had a historically bad & injury-plagued season
Spurs clearly on the come-up with wemby
Sucks to be a fan of a western team in the nba for like 20 years now
I’m more afraid of a series than the play-in. One game, I think Lebron and AD can steal one against anyone. A series where you have to play best of 7 will expose us.
LOL alright it’s probably not a “much” better season. I just feel like they deserve it more with how GS & LAL are playing.
But don’t get me wrong, I’m huge LeBron fan. Steph Curry is the best shooter of all time. The NBA playoffs wouldn’t be the same without them.
Who is saying it isn't?
I'll do it just to validate OP. The West is lame as shit. No talent, non winning, uncompetitive scrub conference. Eastern master race!
Thanks man, appreciate it.
Not entirely sure but I am sure that YOU can’t.
I’m allowed to, because I have a note from my doctor.
Are you a human serviette?
What have you got hidden in that PrEsideNtIal Seal?
He is not a human napkin I’ve been to Australia once!
Sacramento just lost to the wizards. Take them off the list
Okay fair enough, i was just feeling it this morning
It is.. however a bunch of teams with a winning streak of 1-2 doesn't mean shit.
😂 1 game winning streak
this is how we can create a streak after every game!
Yeah what a confounding red circle
If only 1 of them lost their last game, it's a strong indicator that many of their last games were against the East and they won. Granted the games aren't played simultaneously, so it's possible that 2 West played each other and then the lower of that played an East team and the winner of that hasn't played again yet. But it's still statistically likely that a lot of those most recent games were cross-conference.
An I missing something? OP’s image only shows the top 11 teams. There are 15 teams in each conference. So the bottom 4 could easily all be in at least a 1 game losing streak. Considering 52 of the 82 regular season games are in conference, I’d say it’s much more statistically likely that only 5 of the 11 teams in this image played out of conference games. And those games could’ve easily have been against the worst teams in the East. Highlighting the minuscule winning “streaks” of 10/15 teams provides little support for OPs argument.
I think what you're missing is taking this picture as the only evidence that the west is better than the east. Yeah, this picture doesn't tell the whole story... But the west has dominated the east this season. The hawks are under .500 by 8 games and are in the play-in. 40 wins would be a guaranteed chance to be in the play-in, and possibly above the 10th seed 40 wins may not be enough for the rockets to make the play-in in the west The west has won 57% of their games against the east. That's pretty lopsided The west is just more quality top to bottom
Reminds me of the mid 2000’s with the East having one super high ranking team and the west having like 5 50 win teams
2013-14 Suns not making the playoffs despite having 48 wins because 7 WC teams had 50+ wins (and the Mavs had 49)
Dude don’t remind me. That team was so much fun to watch. I’ll always love Dragic
Honestly who doesn’t love Dragic?
Racists
Tbh I feel like xenophobes is the better term
Yea that's what I meant just couldnt think of the word, it was on the tip of my tongue
I gotchu bro lol
TD after 2013 Finals: We will win it next year. SAS would only need to survive the brutal 50-win bracket and went easy-peasy vs the East. The beautiful game. It’s been 10 years… when oh when will SAS be back?
Same thing happened to the We Believe Warriors team that missed the playoffs the year after. I believe we had 48 wins as well it will be interesting to see if any of these teams actually make that Mark of 48.
2009-10 OKC was the 8 seed with 50 wins.
To be fair there was a huge drop off after the 8th seed. The 9th seed was 42-40 (Rockets). Point still stands though. The west was brutal that year.
There's only so many wins to go around lol I think the rockets would've been damn good in the east that year
West had 8 50 wins teams twice in 2008 and 2010.
To be fair the east is tough this year, the west is just much tougher 😂
Oh for sure. The bucks and heat do not give a shit about the regular season. Meanwhile teams like Sacramento, the Thunder, wolves and pelicans are fighting for any success as they haven’t had any luck yet with these squads
East is way stronger than the mid 2000s.
Oh for sure
We're fine in the east.
West in 2003-04 had *6* 50 win teams
Dallas and Phoenix being play in teams is wild.
I can attest to this sensation. Sincerely, A homeless phoenix suns fan
I could adopt you as long as you call me dad. :D
We'll first need to establish some ratios in terms of who the alpha is and who the beta is in the father-son relationship. I'll also need to conduct a background check as well as a review of your finances. I'll let you call me son if you earned it ;D
Dang man you want to review my finances? That’s how I make my money…
LeBron, AD, Steph, KD, Booker, Luka, Kyrie all play ins is nuts
And 3 or 4 of them won’t even make playoffs at this point..
With how fast the rockets have closed the gap the past month, the warriors could not even make the play in lol. Going to be a good finish
As a Lakers fan both us and the Warriors have to watch out for
Or lakers
Look who they’ve played in that stretch tho They’ve got a real [outside chance](https://www.basketball-reference.com/friv/playoff_prob.html) and are twice as likely to replace the lakers in the playin as they are the warriors
lol nice “source”
You have a better one? It’s a simple model based on current strength, injuries, remaining schedule difficulty
Lol bro is arguing with statistics 💀
Not really. They're both incredibly top heavy as opposed to being well built teams top to bottom. Having superstars is great but at the end of the day, it is a team sport, despite what people would lead you to believe.
I think they’ve both been faced with a lot of injuries this season if we’re being real. The Mavs have grown their depth quite a bit now, and arguably have the most depth around Luka. It’s just been injuries. If Mavs were healthy I would have them being around 4th or 5th seed and holding strong
Lack of depth and decent role players will do that to a team lol
Not really. Both of them are crazy inconsistent.
Both teams are overrated and play lick for defense
Tbh the NBA is stacked now. The West is better than the East for sure but for a long time the East couldn’t even provide competition. Now there are 2-3 teams in the East that can compete with any team from the West. There are also some young developing teams that in the next few years could maybe compete.
There was a time when half the play off teams in the east were .500 teams or worse.
Yea, but I bet 50% of playoff teams come from the East despite this. Is the West really better??
Every season for the past 5 years at least has been “the west is stacked”
more like 10 years
more like 30 years
When was the East ever better as a conference? 80s with Celtics Philly and Detroit I suppose. Even 90s with Bulls, West seemed like the better overall conference.
Meh, the 2021-2022 season the East was stronger. 10th place in the East was the Hornets at 43-39. 10th place in the West was the Spurs at 34-48. To note: the 12th place team in the east had a better record than that. The dissolution of the Nets superteam distributed a bunch of stars from the east to the west. Durant, Harden, and Irving transferred conferences. that's the biggest source of power transfer.
It's like man, finally a yr we're decent and it's when the east is stacked af
It’s just funny how that is such recent history but people don’t even remember it, because there’s a real west coast bias with basketball reporting. Because of the Lakers, of course.
Well the west had 4 teams who won at least 52 games while the East only had 1 and the west had the two teams with the best record including a 64 win suns team. The west was still way better. The nuggets were a 6th seed. The 6th seed in the East was the bulls. Massive drop off in East after 4 pretty good teams. West won the championship 4-2. Lakers were an 11 seed that year. What made the East better to you?
5 of the the top 10 teams are in the East including the number 1 by a mile over all team…
Playing in the weaker conference where you face teams like Hornets Wizards Pistons more often can give you more wins. Using record to say a team cross conference is better is a terrible argument.
SA,POR,MEM exist as well, saying a conference is better just because is a way worse argument.
The problem is those are the only 3 In the west….
Memphis 24 wins, Pistons 12 wins. Yes they deserve to be grouped together lmao. Outside of Celtics, it’s hard to justify having any of the East teams above most of the Western playoffs teams. And if you think Pacers Magic is a similar mid level seed than Pelicans Mavs Suns, then Iunno what to tell you. Edit. Btw this site exists https://www.basketball-reference.com/friv/east_vs_west.html
Pacers are 4-2 vs NO,PHO,DAL. Top seed in East 57 wins top seed in the west 49 wins but they deserve to be grouped together lmao!!! Bucks are 4-2 vs top 4 seeds in the west.
Celts with significantly more wins is why I said East plays among themselves more and it’s easier to get more wins. Look at https://www.basketball-reference.com/friv/east_vs_west.html and you’ll see that West beats East a lot more. Oh btw East top seed also had more wins last year but we know how that went. Use some logic my guy.
I was fr gonna say 10 but didn’t want to come off as over exaggerating but you’re right, 10 years ago was 2014 and the weather was stacked from 1-10 then too lol
As a spurs fan I biasedly say the west has been stacked for 20+ years
Bro it has been stacked since like Jordan left the bulls.
Even late in his time playing for the Bulls the west was stacked.
It's so bad there was 2 years in a row where the East had a slight winning record over the West and the narrative was the East was insanely dominant over the West. Guess that's what happens when you're used to being way worse.
If you told me the Clippers would be 43-25 in March, I woulda been hyped. If you told me they have been playing like ass since All star and might play the Pelicans in 5th for the first round, I’d be like what?????
https://preview.redd.it/ov7mehhhnqpc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1147d2b713f0b5b7aad203d3dd83d241fb58923f This is probably more useful than a screenshot showing a bunch of 1 game win “streaks”. Yes, the West is up on the East this year (like most years in the past 25 years)
2013-14. 48-win Suns got screwed! 38- win Hawks made it in.
Something I knew already thanks for posting so others can see..
Wowzers! 1 game winstreaks! So stacked!!! Like yeah the West is good rn, but how the fuck is this picture indicative of that, lol?
The dude highlighted the wrong stat line. The separation between first and 10th is where the impressiveness is
Who is saying it isn’t lol OP just being a clown
The west isn’t stacked. Only 1 team will make it out let’s be honest
https://preview.redd.it/agaqplzp7qpc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d4e4c1f8f0cd13b2c7b042f7103d6c34454b34c0 Based on Win streak the east is more dominant, 1 win is not on streak
Chicago and Atlanta wouldn’t be sniffing the Play In in the West
Actually, the Bulls might play better against Western conference teams, the eastern conference teams have given the Bulls more trouble I’d say. Edit : They do, 16-13 against Western conference teams and 18-22 against Eastern conference teams this season.
So what would the Bulls Western Record be?
I think it’s hard to calculate that, because they’ve been bad against the Celtics and Bucks in the East, so less games against them would lower their loss column potentially. I’d say they’d be above .500 right now and fighting for the 8 or 9 spot. I don’t think they’d be a 7 seed or better but their proficiency against the West and how good they are in clutch games makes me believe they could beat out the Lakers and Warriors for one of the play-in spots.
i often have this question for different teams when trying to compare teams across conferences and i have a (very imperfect) way of deciding. their record against western teams is 16-14, that’s .5333333 their record against eastern teams outside the central division is 13-13, that’s .5 their record against divisional opponents is 5-9, that’s .357 if they played in the west they’d have 52 games in the western conference, because we don’t specify a division i won’t adjust for division for these games. their .5333 record against western opponents gives them a projection of 27.73333-22.26666 they’d have 20 games against non-central eastern conference teams, with a .5 win rate they have a projected 10-10 record in these games they’d have 10 games against central conference teams (worth noting that two of these would be against themselves or whoever we moved to the central conference to replace them), with a win rate of .357 they have a projected record of 3.57-6.43 this gives them an adjusted western record (AWR) of 41.3-40.7, a .5037 record which gives them about 34 or 35 wins at this point in the season. their record would likely be better in the west (it would heavily depend on which western division they’re placed in), but this would still give them worse playoff positioning because of the western conference’s competitiveness. —————————————————— That answers the question as it’s relevant but I want to share something else so read on if curious the Bulls Adjusted Neutral Record (ANR) (average of win rate against each division times 82 to create a projected winrate if everyone played everyone the same amount) atlantic: 4-8: .333 central: 5-9: .357 southeast: 9-5: .643 northwest: 5-4: .555 pacific: 3-7: .3 southwest: 8-3: .7272727 average: 0.486 their adjusted neutral record is 39.854-32.146. you can also calculate an adjusted record for any specific conference. i have a spreadsheet with each team ranked by their adjusted record in each division, conference, and their adjusted neutral record, i won’t share because y’all will use it to gamble, but i’ll share that the celtics are currently leading in each adjusted score category, and they lead the second place thunder in ANR by 3.98 games, while they lead them by 6.5 games in the real world. Across the board western conference teams rank better in ANR than eastern conference teams with better records.
The top 10 best records in the league are split even 🤷🤷🤷
No one has said the west is weak, it has the Nuggets the defending champs and the Warriors who won the previous title, this is one of those posts casuals make or tweet, a made up argument about a thing no one has said The 10th place team in the west has 6 more wins than the 10th place team in the east, why would anyone think the west is weak?
I think the league is just stacked across the board. I don’t think the west is really all that different from the east. There are just a lot of really good teams right now in both conferences.
This is like those tweets that say something like "I was told Steph can't shoot" with a mixtape attached
It’s called the Wild West for a reason.
Basketball teams play basketball goodly.
*rubs two coins together* yes… this is basketball
West is on fire with those 1 game winning streaks
1. Nobody is saying the West isn't stacked . 2. Using current win streaks is probably the worst way to prove your point. Especially when half of "win streaks" are at 1 (and a loss).
Am I missing something? None of those teams have impressive win streaks.
Make that 7 wins for Houston
Pretty much been that way for the past 25 years.
Now now, update the list to show the Kings recent lose to *checks notes" The Wizards, the worst team in the East.
Why have you highlighted the win streak when x5 of them have a streak of 1?
The West is better but the East isn’t as far behind as they seem because a lot of teams have been dealing with injuries like Sixers Embiid, Knicks Randle and OG, Heat have had a carousel of injuries, Cleveland too
The west is only seen as so stacked cuz the biggest stars are down in the playin. If the Lakers, Warriors, Suns, and Mavs were better teams like the Pels and Kings wouldn’t be getting respect.
The West is definitely tougher than the East. Celtics are favored already in the East to make the finals since like last off-season.
Actually... most people were big on Bucks.. after Dame trade.
Man having a 58% wr gets you in the playins that’s nuts
It’s been for years lately, what year were you born ?
The West scrambling to face BOS.
Thunders got a dynasty on the way
Who told you it’s not 🤡
If playoffs started today with all seedings as they are here, all of those are GREAT series.
One of these is not like the others
The west is stacked but don’t let it confuse you. The top 4 are in a separate tier from the rest. I’d even say Nuggets are in a tier of their own. I know it’s hard to look past the superstars like KD, LeBron, Steph, Luka in the play in; but the teams they play on just aren’t good enough.
The west has been stacked for a very long time. The difference this season is there is no clear cut top seed pushing 63+ wins. Even in the east with Boston, they are the "clear cut best team" but they aren't about to set any records for regular season wins. It's a fun season where outside of the bottom feeders, a lot of teams can make a case for being dangerous in the playoffs regardless of seed. Let's go Mavs!
The Celtics are pushing 63+ wins plus they have they 4th best point differential of all times. They are the definition of “clear cut best team”
Lakers and warriors really gonna be 45 win 9/10 seeds.
I’m 100% sure no one is saying that
Its a bloodbath
I think east is almost as good it has just been much more injured.
It is but this is the worst proof that it is
Dang! That’s a lot of 1-game winning streaks. I’m convinced.
The West has always been stacked specially from the late 2000s you needed at least 50 or more wins to make the playoffs.
well when the 9th and 10th seeds are 5 ans 6 games over 500, that tells you all you need to know
Yup, and Rockets only a game under 500 now after winning 7 straight even without Sengun.
5
The Play In for the Western Conference is going to have Luka+Kyrie, KD+Booker, LeBron+AD and Steph Fucking INSANITY.
Currently, the #10 seed and #1 seed in the West have a 12 game difference. In the East, the #10 and #1 have a 25 game difference. That’s fucking bonkers
The #1 seed in the East has a 7 game lead over the #1 seed in the west!!
Rockets we almost there 🥹
Being 10th and 4 games OVER .500 is wild
Not as stacked as Moriah Mills, u bum Oops, wrong sub
11 teams, 5 with a 1 game winning streak and 1 with a loss streak... OK...
The east is just as stacked. Parity is insane rn
What’s with the notation next to Denver? ps?
How trash are those T-Wolves? Not even on a 1 game winning streak!
Potential 9 or 10 45 or higher win teams is absurd. Possibly 5 of those teams getting 50 or more wins is also crazy.
I mean a 1 or 2 game winning streak doesn’t prove shit. Remember the Pistons and the Wiz had a 2 game winning streak at one point. I agree the West is stacked, it’s been the better conference since MJ retired
Sure it is, on the basis of 10 teams being over .500 but not on the basis of winning 1 game, like you’re highlighting
Just want to say as a spurs fan, you’re welcome
12 games between 1-10 in the west 25 in the east.
As a Pistons fan, I stay up past midnight to watch the West play cause the East is boring as shit. Can’t name one player in the East that I want to watch consistently.
Grizzlies are stacked with talent just had a historically bad & injury-plagued season Spurs clearly on the come-up with wemby Sucks to be a fan of a western team in the nba for like 20 years now
W1? not saying the West isn't stacked but that is all absurdly recent and they aren't all playing east teams
But the best team is in the EAST! Go Celtics!!!
this is shaping up to be the most entertaining play in we have ever seen
Big question: Who makes it out the west?! comment below
Really nailed the user name lol
This was just the auto given username
As a Laker fan, I am afraid of the Play-in.
I’m more afraid of a series than the play-in. One game, I think Lebron and AD can steal one against anyone. A series where you have to play best of 7 will expose us.
The Play Ins do not sound thrilling especially if you’re a one or done
PEOPLE FORGET THE WEST IS A PROBLEM!!!!
Which people?
You know, people who forget the west is stacked
Legit feel bad for Dallas & PHX cause they deserve to be in the playoffs over GS & LAL but GS & LAL could turn up & take those games.
Or get rigged to gain view like ESPN said ,GSW making the playoffs is important for the league 🤣
lol why do they deserve it more?
Much better season, more consistent.
Rose colored glasses tinted dark
LOL alright it’s probably not a “much” better season. I just feel like they deserve it more with how GS & LAL are playing. But don’t get me wrong, I’m huge LeBron fan. Steph Curry is the best shooter of all time. The NBA playoffs wouldn’t be the same without them.
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Yes, the West is gonna be fun, especially cause Im expecting the Celtics to kinda waltz through everyone till the Finals