At the moment, who are your 16 playoff teams??

[DavidSomerset]

Off the top of my head, with the appropriate seedings...

East

1. NJ Nets

2. Cleveland

3. Miami (Shaq never plays hard in the regular season)

4. Chicago

5. Detroit

6. Indy

7. Orlando

8. Oh what the hell...HAWKS!!

West

1. San Antonio

2. Phoenix

3. Dallas

4. LA Lakers

5. Denver

6. LA Clippers

7. Memphis

8. Sacramento

[seacharl]

Just curious, why do you see NJ as a #1?

[ATLJA316]

that's a really tough one....

assuming teams were LOCKED as they are at this moment, with all contracts going through and whatnot....

East

1. Miami

2. Chicago (yeah, i think they could pull off a 2 seed)

3. New Jersey

4. Cleveland

5. Detroit

6. Miluakee

7. Washington

8. *closely-contending teams*:

Atlanta

Toronto

Orlando

Indiana

Boston

i know that's pretty...broad, but i think atl, tor, orl, ind, and bos could easily be within 5 games of each other come post-season time.

(wishful thinking says ATL takes the 8, but my logic points to Indiana)

West

1. Phoenix

2. Dallas

3. Denver -must be nice sittin' so pretty in the NW division

4. San Antonio

5. Houston -- if not cursed w/ another season of injury

6. LAC

7. Sacramento

8. NOK

honorable mention in the west will go out to LAL and Utah

then again......we dont know yet how the playoff changes stern's gonna put in will change the seedings yet do we?

[TheDude]

don't forget Hornets. i think they have just as much chance as us of contending IF Paul plays as well as he did last year.

[Cwell]

The hornets are in the west

[DavidSomerset]

I think Miami is clearly the best team, but they (namely Shaq) take it real easy during the regular season. I think 3rd seed is comfortable for them and acceptable.

[Plainview1981]

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Off the top of my head, with the appropriate seedings...

East

1. NJ Nets

2. Cleveland

3. Miami (Shaq never plays hard in the regular season)

4. Chicago

5. Detroit

6. Indy

7. Orlando

8. Oh what the hell...HAWKS!!

West

1. San Antonio

2. Phoenix

3. Dallas

4. LA Lakers

5. Denver

6. LA Clippers

7. Memphis

8. Sacramento

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East:

1.Miami

2.Detroit

3.Chicago

4.New Jersey

5.Cleveland

6.Orlando

7.Bucks

8.Indiana

West:

1.SA Spurs

2.Dallas Mavericks

3.Suns

4.Clippers

5.Denver Nuggets

6.Sac Town

7.LA Lakers

8.Utah Jazz