gridironmike Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=1664103 Monday, November 17, 2003 Associated Press NEW YORK -- The NBA's board of governors approved a realignment plan Monday that creates three divisions of five teams each in the Eastern and Western conferences. The expansion Charlotte Bobcats, the NBA's 30th team, were placed in the Eastern Conference and the New Orleans Hornets were moved to the Western Conference. The Hornets previously played in Charlotte before moving to New Orleans two seasons ago. Joining the new Charlotte franchise in the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference will be Atlanta, Miami, Orlando and Washington. The Central Division will have Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Indiana and Milwaukee. Atlantic Division teams will be Boston, New Jersey, New York, Philadelphia and Toronto. New Orleans will play in the Southwest Division of the Western Conference with Dallas, Houston, Memphis and San Antonio. The Northwest Division will have Denver, Minnesota, Portland, Seattle and Utah. The Pacific Division teams are Golden State, the Los Angeles Lakers and Clippers, Phoenix and Sacramento. Teams will play divisional opponents twice at home and twice on the road. They will play conference opponents outside their division three or four times, and teams from the other conference twice -- at home and away. Divisional winners each earn a playoff berth. The remaining five playoff berths for each conference will be based on regular-season records with no regard to divisional alignment. Home-court advantage throughout the playoffs will be based solely on regular-season records. That means a divisional winner will not necessarily have home court advantage in the playoff series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@DCGoldPants Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 that's fine. With so many games, you play just about everybody. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gridironmike Posted November 18, 2003 Author Share Posted November 18, 2003 Yeah, the best realignment to happen in thirty years occurred in the NFL under the current alignment. Finally we get to see every team every few years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Wicked Wop Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 I bet the Wiz wish this was happening this year.....be winning the division and probably be running away with it by the end of the year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbooma Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 Yes I agree lets create that division now The Wiz kids would dominate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitman56 Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 They would find a way to lose. On the bright side, much like the Caps division, the winner of this division would get an unearned 3 seed in the playoffs, as I'm sure second and maybe third place teams from other divisions would have better records. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
88Comrade2000 Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 Didn't they extend the season by two games to 86? I read something somewhere where they mentioned that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinsfanjoe Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 They only play 82 games now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canyonero! Posted November 18, 2003 Share Posted November 18, 2003 Kind of funny. The owner of the Timberwolves, Glenn Taylor, has been trying for a couple of years now to get the Wolves in the Eastern conference since Minnesota is the eastern most of the West teams. This might have been his last real chance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NavyDave Posted November 19, 2003 Share Posted November 19, 2003 The Bullets have no excuse next year to finish no lower than second in this divsion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stratoman Posted November 19, 2003 Share Posted November 19, 2003 FU(K THE NBA!! BRING ON COLLEGE BASKETBALL!! GO TERPS!! :puke: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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