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December 20, 2013
SportsFilter: The Friday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
Don't blame the Celtics, they're trying to take it easy. Unfortunately, the rest of the Atlantic has gone Jimmy Buffet on us.
posted by yerfatma at 01:25 PM on December 20, 2013
If you run off a 5-game winning streak in the NBA eastern conference, you're pretty much guaranteeing yourself a top 3 seed.
posted by grum@work at 02:16 PM on December 20, 2013
If you run off a 5-game winning streak in the NBA eastern conference...
Not sure any of those teams are capable of winning 5 games in a row.
I would say maybe this is the year the NBA realizes that the current division system is silly but the entire Eastern Conference is so bad that I don't think anyone will care when the Atlantic (Titanic) division winner finishes under .500 and gets a 4-seed.
posted by tron7 at 05:25 PM on December 20, 2013
The last place team in the NBA's Southwest division would be two games out of first in the Atlantic. Boston is 12-15 and the southwestern mecca of Memphis is 10-15.