>>67619469
You can't. Superstars are scared to play in the East with LeBron and Wade. It's a playoff death sentence.

>>67619469
have Kevin Durant sign with somewhere in the east

your welcome

>>67619560
>this
Wizards please

>>67619560
>your

Deal away with East/West divide in the playoffs.

16 best teams get in and get seeded #1 to #16.

In this scenario the Cavs would face Portland/Detroit in the 1st round (cba working out tie breakers), winner of Clippers/Pacers in the 2nd round and one of Spurs/Miami/Charlotte/Memphis (most likely Spurs) in the Conference Finals. Much more balanced.

>>67619560
KD is Lebron's bitch though

>>67619655
Cut him some slack. He's retarded.

>>67619740
this

>>67619469
Why do they even have the stupid conference system? Just have a ladder for the regular season, and the top 16 teams get seeded and go to playoffs.

>>67619740
>>67619886
Because of travel. In a 7 game series where the home court switches 4 times, traveling east to west coast sucks

>>67619951
Switch 1st round back to best of 5 and give more rest in later rounds

>>67619951
>7 game series
Why do the playoffs need to be so fucking long?

>>67620040
Why can't the whole thing just be best of 3?

>>67620040
You see as a basketball fan that would make sense, but the good jews need to make their money so that means more games, better timeslots, etc

>>67620068
Longer view means more ratings mate.
Thanks for Matt dirtiest player Delly.

1. Warriors
2. Spurs
3. Cavs
4. Raptors
5. Thunder

>>67620120
lol

>>67620120
'no'

Lebron is retiring soon.

But I mean it wont fix the east since it's not like Lebron is the reason the east is shit, he's just so much better than them

>>67619469
Just wait the West will get weaker or the East will grow stronger. It just happens.

Northern/Southern conference.

>>67626847

we've been waiting for that for almost 20 years now

>>67626835
You think 2025 is soon?

>>67626865
This

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>>67619614
>im-fucking-plying

Pls do us a solid and bounce the Thunder, Warriors.

>Raptors are about to go to the NBA finals having played three seven-match series.
>Meanwhile Warriors cruise to the finals, with just two games lost while Curry was out.

How do we fix this shit?

get rid of conferences

>>67627025
The Raptors had their two stars have historically bad playoff series too and they still managed to advance.

>>67619469
one conference is just better than the other for a while. It'll turn eventually and the East will make the West their bitches overall.

Football analogy - the Buffalo Bills once went to the Super Bowl four times in a row and lost all of them. Why? Because their conference (the AFC) was practically JV league compared to the other (the NFC). They had one realistic chance at winning at least one, and they blew it when their kicker shanked a FG try on the last play. The score? 20-19. They then proceeded to dominate the AFC and then promptly get slaughtered in the Super Bowl three more years in a row.