What if the east is weak because...

[Im Still Ballin]

Because Lebron is there. Because nobody wants to go up against the King. They have a better chance out west. Lebron isn't in the east because its weak. Its weak because nobody wants to play against Lebron come play-offs.

Wow. Epiphany moment.

[Milbuck]

Interesting theory, considering the West has wiped its ass with Lebron's Heat in playoff series at a rate of 50%, and his Cavs at a rate of 100%.

[Kvnzhangyay]

Interesting theory, considering the West has wiped its ass with Lebron's Heat in playoff series at a rate of 50%, and his Cavs at a rate of 100%.

How is the second part relevant to the theory?

[Im Still Ballin]

Interesting theory, considering the West has wiped its ass with Lebron's Heat in playoff series at a rate of 50%, and his Cavs at a rate of 100%.
Small sample size, sorry mate. Need more definite evidence than that.

[LongLiveTheKing]

Interesting theory, considering the West has wiped its ass with Lebron's Heat in playoff series at a rate of 50%, and his Cavs at a rate of 100%.
Lebron's Heat wiped its ass with the West at a rate of 50% too. :sleeping

[Im Still Ballin]

Lebron's Heat wiped its ass with the West at a rate of 50% too. :sleeping
This is very true!

[LongLiveTheKing]

This is very true!
Btw interesting theory :cheers:

[Inferno]

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[Warfan]

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:oldlol: i just saw that vid

The East was weak before he came into the league, and it still is. There were maybe a few years here when the East was pretty decent, but overall it has been weak.

And without the Big 3 colluding and some serious injuries, the East wouldve been better the past 4 years.

[TheMilkyBarKid]

Interesting theory, considering the West has wiped its ass with Lebron's Heat in playoff series at a rate of 50%, and his Cavs at a rate of 100%.
Name me a player who would win with the 2007 Cavs in place of Lebron (and at the same age).

[Yankstar]

Name me a player who would win with the 2007 Cavs in place of Lebron (and at the same age).

Jordan

[TheMilkyBarKid]

Jordan
I don't think he would have (it's debateable).
I see Jordan gunning for it and Pop being too smart with too much personnel.

[keep-itreal]

NBA purposely made the eastern conference weak so Lebron can thrive in it.

There's a reason he never went to a western conference team. Lebitch

[Im Still Ballin]

NBA purposely made the eastern conference weak so Lebron can thrive in it.

There's a reason he never went to a western conference team. Lebitch
OR....

No one wants to play LeKing in the post season because he is the NBA's prince and will get all the help he needs?

Right?

[Lebron23]

Western teams have better management and front offices. Both Carmelo, Boozer, Pre Injury Amare, and Deron played in the western conference finals when they were in the West, but their current teams struggled in the eastern conference playoffs.

[Im Still Ballin]

Western teams have better management and front offices. Both Carmelo, Boozer, Pre Injury Amare, and Deron played in the western conference finals when they were in the West, but their current teams struggled in the eastern conference playoffs.
or..

They all ran into Lebron at some point

[StephHamann]

A Monta Ellis Brandon Jennings led team made the Playoffs 1 year ago, now Ellis is in the West and Jennings in the east. Only Ellis made the playoffs


EAST DA BEST

[buddha]

OR....

No one wants to play LeKing in the post season because he is the NBA's prince and will get all the help he needs?

Right?

yeah that's why Dwight Howard traded himself to the lakers. to escape LePrince.

[FPJ]

yeah that's why Dwight Howard traded himself to the lakers. to escape LePrince.

No, he wanted to go there cause it's every player's dream to play along Kobe. He destroyed the Heat in the reg season, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYWZcZy2Cmc

[Roundball_Rock]

The East was fine as recently as 2012 when you compare how the top teams from each conference did versus the top teams from the West. The change was caused by Rose's injuries, Boston's aging, Howard's departure from the West and the formation of the "Big 3" in Miami. All of those things weakened the East's competitiveness. The only thing during that period to improve the East was the emergence of Indiana as an elite team in the past two seasons (they went 6-4 against the best Western teams last year). However, with the dissolution of the "Big 3" we now have two good East teams as a result of LeBron reviving Cleveland and Miami presumably remaining competitive with Wade/Bosh/Deng. Add to the mix Rose's return and a potential breakout season from Toronto and/or Washington and the East in 2015 will be considerably better. Even the returns of Lopez and Horford should shore up Atlanta and Brooklyn respectively.

On the other side of the coin--while people refuse to admit it because it minimizes the significance of the "collusion" that led to the formation of the "Big 3"--the West is strong because it has/had several "super teams." You had Durant/Westbrook/Harden/Ibaka on one team. You still have Durant/Westbrook/Ibaka, so arguably the second and third best players in the league along with a dominant interior defender. You have Paul/Griffin/Jordan/Crawford/Reddick on one team. That is, arguably the third and fourth best players in the league along with several other good players. Houston has Howard/Harden and previously also Parsons. Dallas has Dirk/Ellis/Parsons. Portland has Aldrige/Lillard. The Spurs have Duncan/Parker/Manu/Leonard. The Lakers had Kobe/Howard/Nash/Gasol at one point. Yet people acted as if the "Big 3" in Miami were without any historical precedent. They were not even unprecedented in their own era...

[tpols]

or..

They all ran into Lebron at some point

Yea.. Dwight Howard ran from his magic team beating Lebron's in the ECF to the Lakers.. because it was so much easier out west.. o wait first round sweep.. then he decided to stay out west when he went to the rockets.. another first round loss. Boy, he really had it tough out east with that Lebron guy.


Who has left the eastern conference for the west? Almost every FA has came from the west to the east(big bad lebron territory:eek: ) d-will, melo, amare, tyson chandler, or moved within their own conferences.. very few superstar in the past 5 years have fled east to west. Its been the other way around. LOL

[choppermagic]

I dont think that is a valid theory.

Look at the Shaq-Kobe-Phil Lakers. They were the top 2 players in the NBA and were an absolute beast of a team to deal with. What happened? The Kings and Portland put together essentially super-teams, and the Spurs bolstered their talent as well all in order to compete. All West teams were gobbling up any decent big man to try and slow Shaq down.

The West got stronger to compete, not weaker. The East is just sucky lately and the teamming up of LBJ-Wade-Bosh flushed three franchise players into one team. Before that, the Celtics were the dominant team and they weren't really afraid of Lebron.

[JT123]

Jordan
You mean the guy who is 1-9 in the playoffs without Pippen? :roll:
Kids today.

[Beastmode88]

Da fcuk? Mavs took spurs to 7 games, portland 5 and thunder 6. The fact that the heat got blown out every game 14+ points a game is PATHETIC. miami cake walked thru the east and when they had to play a real team they got stomped.