NBA Redistricting Option?

Yeah, I say we just eliminate the Lakers and Knicks. No city should have more than one team. So, just eliminate the worst team in the cities with more than one team.

BNM

 

Think of all the time changes that teams would have to go through with that though.

 

I think by "Southwest Division" you mean "Southeast Division."

 

Hunger Games: NBA Edition.

The cross-promotion of that would be sickening.

 

You tell the Texans that they're in the southeast. Maybe we just go with Southern Division.

 

I find it amazing that China only has 1!!

 

Totally sound and logical. For that reason it would be immediately dismissed by the powers that be.

 

I like the idea of playoffs with 4 division winners that get to the "conference" finals. There would have to be 32 teams to do this, so give Seattle an expansion franchise and Mexico City or Vegas one as well.

They should change the lottery so ping pong balls are used for all 32 draft picks with the worst teams getting the most balls but not as many as the current system. The best team would only get one ball. That would drastically reduce tanking if instead of the worst team having a 25% chance of the first pick they had an 8% chance.

 

Winning one of those division banners today in your proposed system would be more impressive than all those first titles the Celtics started winning in the 60's. Back then there were only 8 teams in the NBA and some of them were basically low payroll Washington generals.

 

I love the idea, I still don't quite understand the reasoning behind the current conferences and divisions. Right now teams like the Pacers and Heat have a field day padding their win totals and thus HCA's in the playoffs by playing against such atrociously bad competition. If this idea doesn't take root, something really needs to as the current system is not working, period. As an aside, wasn't there a Pacific Division back in the day? Like didn't it have POR, SEA, LAL, LAC, Sac, and GSW in it or something?

I would think one of the major elements to making this decision would be based on travel time within the division rivals, if that were used we would not have Minnesota in our division. IMO Denver and Minny should not be in our division at all, and Utah is arguable. Frankly we're basically just another Cali team, so we should be in their divisions as they are way closer to us. Currently the way the system works it really screws the "Northwestern Division" as geographically the teams in it are extremely far away from each other, far more so than any other division, it's really absurd.

 

I agree that the divisions need realigned but i like the 3 division/conference setup at the divisions are all = in teams. The easiest fix is swap Portland and Phoenix. Portland plays with the west coast teams , Phoenix has a worse travel schedule playing Denver/Utah/OKC/Minnesota but not nearly as bad as Portland has had it.