1. HEAT
2. MAGIC
3. HAWKS
4. BULLS
5. CELTICS
6. PISTONS
7. BUCKS
8. BOBCATS

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You never miss your wealth, till your well went dry
Seem like only yesterday, you were here smiling
Now you gone away, but I know you in a better place
No traces of you, what can I do?
Alone and confused

hey, uh, yeah, Charlotte is now the Bobcats? Sorry My bad.

At least you had the cojones to post your picks!

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Still to early to even think about this.

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You never miss your wealth, till your well went dry
Seem like only yesterday, you were here smiling
Now you gone away, but I know you in a better place
No traces of you, what can I do?
Alone and confused

1. Magic
2. Heat
3. Hawks
4. Celtics
5. Bulls
6. Bucks
7. Charlotte
8. Cavs

The 3rd through 6th seeds will all be pretty close and could fluctuate.

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Oh, so it's too early to make prelim predictions, but not too early to mock me...

AbsoFUCKINGlutely!

Still could be some trades and injuries, I'll wait until pre-season to make mine

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You never miss your wealth, till your well went dry
Seem like only yesterday, you were here smiling
Now you gone away, but I know you in a better place
No traces of you, what can I do?
Alone and confused

that's what I should've gone with.

No respect for a Pistons team that lost Rip Hamilton and Tayshaun Prince
to injury for large chunks of last season and will have them back and healthy and should have a seasoned PG, with some big body draft picks to compliment Prince/Rip/Ben Gordon?

Cavs--much more interesting if they are the 8th seed and the Heat the 1 seed.

I guess given the relative records over the last several seasons of Western Conference teams (way better) vs Eastern, players no doubt saw easier/more/better opportunities to go deep in the playoffs in the Eastern Conference.

I would switch 3 and 5

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Had to quote this off....so you and D-bag are both picking Stan Van Gundy and his Magic men over Riley and Wade/James/Bosh? this calls for a return of:



And a bookmark of this thread.

IMO 3 players won't win you a championship when you have to put 11 other min salary guys around them. Boston already had players there and they added a couple minimum salary guys. They're going to field a team of these guys. I wish the Bulls would have taken a chance on Beasley in a trade.

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Not talking winning it all in this thread, just who posts the best record in the Eastern Conference next season.

Phil Jackson/Kobe/Gasol/Artest/D Fisher et all don't really factor into that calculation.

That's why I said 3-6 could really be in any order. There's going to be a blob of mediocrity in the east. I could seriously these those 4 teams finishing in any order from 3-6.

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This can't happen. Division winners are guaranteed a top 4 seed. Bulls will win the Central, so they'll have to be a top 4 seed.

1. Heat
2. Magic
3. Bulls
4. Celtics
5. Bucks
6. Hawks
7. Nets
8. Bobcats

Nets will be better.

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"Tubby? Oh yes, Tubby."

Good point, I didn't factor in the way they seed division winners now. I think the Nets will be improved this year also, but still not a playoff team. Im still surprised that everything thinks the Cavs are going to be horrendous next year.

They will still be better than:
Pistons
Knicks
Nets
Pacers
76ers
Wizards
Raptors (I think they will have the worst record in the east next season)

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Exactly what I was thinking.