If NBA had a 16 team playoffs...

[blac_da_rappa]

No more cake walk for East ... and would be pretty entertaining.


Look at these matchups

1 Spurs vs 16 Bucks

2. Heat vs 15 Rockets

3 Thunder vs 14 Boston

4 Clippers vs 13 Jazz

5 Grizzlies vs 12 Bulls

6 Pacers vs 11 Warriors

7 Knicks vs 10 Brooklyn

8 Nuggetts vs 9 Hawks

 

[Brozay]

Some great matchups there

2. Heat vs 15 Rockets

3 Thunder vs 14 Boston

6 Pacers vs 11 Warriors

7 Knicks vs 10 Brooklyn

 

[Rickdogg44]

2. Heat vs 15 Lakers

 

[blac_da_rappa]

2. Heat vs 15 Lakers
Even better

 

[Brozay]

2. Heat vs 15 Lakers
Even better

No.. the Rockets are not only better than LA, they are more entertaining to watch.

 

[IGSaint12]

No more cake walk for East ... and would be pretty entertaining.


Look at these matchups

1 Spurs vs 16 Bucks

2. Heat vs 15 Rockets

3 Thunder vs 14 Boston

4 Clippers vs 13 Jazz

5 Grizzlies vs 12 Bulls

6 Pacers vs 11 Warriors

7 Knicks vs 10 Brooklyn

8 Nuggetts vs 9 Hawks

This is actually a great idea.

 

[King Poetic]

i agree..

the east has been trash for the last 15 years.

 

[954UAlreadyknow]

that would be interesting..........

 

[FTBS]

Been saying it for years. Its time to put the "leastern" conference stuff to bed though. East is stronger than its been in years.

 

[blac_da_rappa]

Yeah im a Thunder fan of course we gettin that Ship this year.

 

[cfountain]

would be cool

 

[pete clemenza]

Weren't they actually discussing this about 5 years ago? It would be nice if they did this

 

[OTC]

Great thread, I was going to make this a while back but I definitely agree

It should be the best 16 teams in the league to balance things out.​

 

[Regular_P]

I doubt they'll ever do it, but at this point, I think it would be the right thing to do. They could never do it back in the day because of travel, but that's obviously a non-issue now.

This would ensure the two best teams faced each other in the Finals.

 

[Youngdev]

I think they don't do it that way because of the travel, if you got lakers vs heat, so the heat win and there next match up is vs the clippers. Traveling across country every other day. Or clippers vs boston, then the clips win and turn around and play knicks or nets.

All that traveling in a 7 game series over and over would be hard.


I'm sure they could figure it out though, would be nice.