I focus probably too much on the NBA, which means that the next few months (NFL draft aside) I'll probably emphasize 90% of my time/postson the NBA Playoffs (the other 10% will emphasize baseball, cheating in baseball, and football players getting arrested during the offseason).
Let me get to the point. The Western Conference is getting entirely too much respect. I can understand the praise lavished upon the "top 9" teams in the conference, as long as you completely ignore the bottom six teams. At least five--possibly six if Golden State chokes out three of its final four games--teams will finish with fewer than 30 wins! Compare this to one such team in the East (the Wizards, who are doing their best imitation of a West team, with 18 wins at this point).
And out of the top 9 teams Not Named the Lakers, the Nuggets look to emerge as the second seed with an amazing 55 wins. All for a team that traded Marcus Camby to the Clippers in exchange for a 2nd round pick while they were in cap-shedding mode. This is a team that relies on the increasingly shot-hungry Carmelo Anthony (driving less to the basket each game as he continues his quest to be the next Glenn Robinson) as its number 1 option. Credit to Chauncey Billups for improving the team more than Allen Iverson could (although Iverson would be one of the first to acknowledge scoring isn't as easy as it was when he was on the sunny side of 30 years of age), but are the Nuggets a team you would fear going into the playoffs, when Dahntay Jones is starting at shooting guard?
And while I'm bashing Denver sports teams/athletes, since when did Jay Cutler (now the Bears QB) become a franchise QB worth 2 first round picks and a third round pick? At the end of the day, is he THAT much better than Matt Cassel (who only garnered a 2nd round pick? Really?
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