No. The Western Conference playoffs will be much more entertaining and close than the Eastern Conference playoffs. The Suns, Warriors, Nuggets, Clippers, Mavericks, and Lakers all have a chance. The Pelicans are going to be so much fun if Zion is healthy. It's just the Celtics and Bucks in the East.

Don’t forget coach of the year Thibs.

Celtics have blown big leads in 3 straight games.

Depends if the Heat get their shit together. Raptors are definitely getting their shit together and the Cavs ain't no joke.

I'd count out Mavs out of hand. There's zero playoff defense there. Lakers are about a 5% probability. If Lebron is in the right frame of mind, you never know. He'd have to play the other end.

The Cavs are certainly a dark horse. Man, I love that team.

Can't remember this much parity in a while. I think the West certainly is better than the East because I'm not buying Milwaukee.

4 way tie for the last spots. Lakers are in, and sadly the Pels may be out. Rough loss to the Kings last night, they needed that one. Still hoping to see a Zion return but it may be too late. Just not enough scoring. Love Brandon Ingram's game though.

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This is a wild take.

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this from the king of bad NBA takes. I'm just saying I don't think the West has any standout teams. Compared to the East they're better but this really has been a really NFL like season where there's few big dog teams.

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I think you may be confused

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Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

maybe I crossed you up with this guy.

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I actually forgot about that. Thanks for reminding me.

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The East has a better record and it's solely because Milwaukee and Boston beat the living shit out of the West. But even taking those two teams out of the equation, especially before the Nets trades, the East has the better talent.

they really could sneak into that six seed. I predicted them as an eight seed.

Luke Kennard. I've seen three Griz games in the past week and that guy is in the middle of every single screwup. Literally can do nothing but standstill jumpers and can't make most of those unless he's WIDE open. Plays absolutely no defense, drives to nowhere in the lane, folds under pressure, real or imagined. No idea what Memphis was thinking with this guy.

Dennis Schroder is so dirty. An incredibly smart player though. Really nearly messed up Jaren Jackson's knee tonight. Griz are missing Morant and Adams. Lakers missing Lebron and Russel. I think the Lakers beat these guys in 7 games if Russel is back, even if the Griz get their two pieces back.

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Shotgun Willie's

I'm taking LeBron, Steph, Luka, KD, AD, Jokic, Booker, Morant, Kyrie, De'Arron Fox, SGA, Kawhi, Paul George and Dame over the talent in the East. It's not close.

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OK. If it isn't the talent( Maybe I didn't think out the "talent" portion too well after the trades, maybe I did), let's think out why the top 6 in each conference has the East top 6 with a much better record against the West than the West top 6(I have to count 8 because it's a 3 way tie right now) against the East. No one is under .500 in the East while 3 are under .500 in the West(only one 6th place team is under .500). Plus, the Magic, Hawks, and Heat are over .500. Pelicans and Thunder over .500.

What accounts for this lopsided record? Does the East guard? Is that it?

Fred, what did you think of the officiating tonight?

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Frankly, I don't know why refs don't have ptsd. Players piss and moan on every call and every non-call. It used to be a guy like Joey Crawford would say "oh you think I'm an asshole, keep it up, then you'll really see what asshole is" and things would settle down.

Surprise Ts are the worst. When some asshole ref comes running across the court to T somebody up, you know he (or she!) is an over sensitive dbag. Not the right profession for a person with that make-up.

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I'm going to sound old, and I'm going to sound white, but every single play is an argument. Lebron is literally talking to a ref on almost every call against the Lakers. With constant histrionics. It's league wide but that guy sets the tone for his entire team. Every team has one of 'em, just about. Years ago, the NBA did preseason differently and handed out tons of T's. This is while Iverson was still playing. That lasted all of a few weeks. I know emotion is a big part of the game, but it sets the tone for every level of basketball. College is way less so but you should see high school basketball these days, not to mention middle school. It's just going to get worse.

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Steph Curry is amazing.

Anybody watching the end of this Warriors -Bucks game?

Thoughts if we need to reroute the Bucks Championship parade?

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Lakers clowned the Pelicans last night, effectively ending their season. They have the easiest schedule left the rest of the way, according to tankathon. They may lose to the Rockets tonight due to AD being out but if I'm the Nuggets or Kings, the last thing I want to see is the Lakers first round.

I is sad.

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Nobody can stop Embid in today's NBA which is not like back in the day where teams all had big men that could at least D up the other teams bigs.

He comes down and camps out in the post, gets whatever shot he wants, and easily puts up 30 and 10, does he have enough around him, probably not enough to win the championship.

Giannis is a similar matchup nightmare, but has a better surrounding cast of guys that know their roles and know how to play a team game.

Denver has been getting thrashed lately. They have been getting exposed defensively.

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And IIRC Embid kills Joker every time he sees him.

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Jordan is going to sell his majority stake in the owners. He's taking the profit before the bubble bursts.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

he just looks like a walking injury though. AD is similar. You just see the bones creak as he runs up and down the floor and you wait for somebody to undercut him and put him back on the DL

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Kings are killing it. Another road win last night