Now that the NBA has awarded at 30th franchise to Charlotte (good for Charlotte by the way), I was thinking about realignment. The Commish has said that he would definitely favor it making balanced divisions in terms of numbers and even increasing regional rivalries much like what the NFL tried to do when the Texans entered the league. With 30 teams, there would most certainly be a switch to three 5-team divisions in each conference. How killer of a division would the Rockets be in? Houston Dallas San Antonio Memphis New Orleans Damn, that would be a smokin' division.
How exactly would 3 five team divisions work for the playoffs? The three winners get the 1,2,3 seeds and the other five go to the other top records? And yes that would be a pretty damn tough division!
Wow, if that would in fact be the division that u had in mind, you could pretty much say whoever wins that is the NBA champs haha.....I think contraction would be better than addition of teams though. It's stupid that teams like Cleveland, Denver, and all the other teams with bad record play for ping pong balls instead of to win--it'd be a better league if there were less teams with more talent on each, of course they'd never be as stacked as the Rockets, but it would make other teams better.
that would be a killer grouping (with memphis being killed by the other 4 ). what other groups would there be? min would probably move to the eastern conf... some potential groupings... west coast cities: lal lac gsw sac sea midwest cities: dal hou mem no san filler group: pho utah por (they got stoned and aren't sure where they are ) den ??? another team currently from the least sauna cities: mia orl atl cha ??? middle of nowhere cities: cle ind mil det min that's a lot of snow cities (aka major market cities): tor nyk nj bos was i still need to put phi & chi in there somewhere i'm not from the us, so my geography of all 50 states is not perfect anyone got any other grouping ideas???
Jeff, I see a problem with the alignment of the divisions when they add Charlotte. Here is how I see it: Western Conference Midwest Division Dallas Houston Memphis Minnesota (not right geographically, but at least in the right time zone) New Orleans Southwest Division Denver LA Clippers Phoenix San Antonio (they are the closest; cant really put Dallas or Houston here) Utah Northwest Division Golden State LA Lakers Sacramento Seattle Portland Eastern Conference Great Lakes Division Cleveland Chicago Detroit Milwaukee Toronto Northeast Divison Boston New York New Jersey Philadelphia Washington Southeast Division Atlanta Charlotte Indiana Miami Orlando The problem is the number of teams in the SW area of the US in comparison with those in the NE area are not proportianate. I took SA out of our division in order to give the SW Division 5 teams (they were the closest to the other teams in that division). I split up the Clippers and Lakers. It doesnt make much sense geographically, but I figure who cares about the Clippers. Also, if you dont put SA in the SW division (I hate to split up all the Texas teams), then LA Lakers have to go here and Minnesota would have to go to the NW division to bring the # of teams to 5 and New Orleans moves out of our division into the Eastern Conference. Anyone else have suggestions on how to clean up this mess?
NORTHEAST NORTHWEST New York Minnesota New Jersey Portland Boston Seattle Philadelphia Denver Toronto Utah EAST COAST SOUTH SOUTHWEST Charlotte Houston Miami Dallas Orlando San Antonio Atlanta New Orleans Washington Memphis MIDEAST WEST COAST Milwaukee LA Clippers Indiana LA Lakers Cleveland Sacramento Detroit Golden State Chicago Phoenix That's my take, for what its worth
NORTHEAST New York New Jersey Boston Philadelphia Toronto EAST COAST SOUTH Charlotte Miami Orlando Atlanta Washington MIDEAST Milwaukee Indiana Cleveland Detroit Chicago SOUTHWEST Houston Dallas San Antonio Memphis' New Orleans WEST COAST LA Lakers LA Clippers Sacramento Golden State Phoenix NORTHWEST Portland Seattle Utah Denver Minnesota That's my take, for what its worth
Try this one on for size...a little dramatic, but I like it: Western Conference Pacific Golden State LA Lakers LA Clippers Portland Sacramento Mountain Dallas Denver Phoenix Seattle Utah Midwest Chicago Cleveland Indiana Memphis San Antonio Eastern Conference Northern Boston Detroit Milwaukee Minnesota Toronto Atlantic Charlotte New Jersey New York Philadelphia Washington Gulf Coast Atlanta Houston Miami New Orleans Orlando
I think Dallas and San Antonio have to be in our division. Also, will there be an East/West split still? Will playoffs be played differently? 16 teams still? Will teams with strong divisions have a disadvantage going to the post season? I don't like realignment, we could get a gift or a nightmare. Good breakdowns though, they look all look feasible.
What does it matter? As long as we are in the top 8, we make the playoffs. The only thing divisions have to do with it is basically home-court advantage.
this is the same alignment i came up with when i wrote it out also - - but i'd change the divison names according to your list as follows Eastern Conference Atlantic (NYK, NJ, phila, bos, tor) Southeast (atl, char, miami, orl, was) Central (ind, chi, mil, det, cle) Western Conference Midwest (hou, sa, dal, nahlens, memphis) Pacific (LAL, LAC, sac, gs, phx) Northwest (por, sea, utah, den, min) top 8 in each conference go-- seeded similar to NHL - - where in some cases the weak #3 seed division winner (ex: northwest division) would be an underdog to a #6 seed (ex: San Antonio) in the 1st round of the West Playoffs - - it could be great! 4 divisions is not enough - -
Maybe we should swith to Northern and Southern conferences. . . Yee haww, the south shall rise again!!!
Why wouldn't they just add CHarlotte to the East, and move New Orleans to the West?(simply) It wouldn't be fair though. The East would REALLY be trashy. I had another question about this new franchise. From what I'm reading, each team can protect 8 players, and Charlotte can pick from the rest. Which 8 players would we protect? I think we'd be one of the teams Charlotte picks from, because we're deep. Portland too. Probably Sacramento: Divac Clark Pollard Webber Turkoglu Stojakovic Christie Bibby Bobby Jackson Imagine, one of those guys is up for grabs. Probably Pollard though. Who would WE protect? Here are my picks in order of importance: Ming Griffin Boki Mobley Francis Cato Posey Rice (One year contract) I'd leave MoT out, but that would be like leaving him out in the cold. Terrible for the organization if he realized we left him to be picked.
