If Memphis moved to the Eastern Conference..

[313]

What team would you switch to the West? Geographically it makes sense for the Griz to be an East Conf team, but I don't see any team in the Eastern conference that it would make sense to move to the West.

[SpurAddict561]

Bucks might make sense, that's all I could come up with.

It needs to happen though because the East is a joke. Adding Memphis would at least make it a little more interesting.

[hater]

Griz would easily sleepwalk to the ECFs where they would hold home court vs Cavs. Probly lose thou

[SpurAddict561]

Griz would easily sleepwalk to the ECFs where they would hold home court vs Cavs. Probly lose thou

But at least the Cavs would break a sweat....lol

[TheGreatYacht]

Move the Grizzlies to the East and give Seattle and Kansas City NBA teams, tbh. Let those two teams fight it out for Boozer and whoever is left in free agency

[SuperCam]

Cavs would still sweep or win in 5. Matt Barnes shenanigans doesn't work against a player of LeBron's caliber.

[Chinook]

Memphis should move if expansion happens, but other wise, there isn't really a point of moving them at all, as they are the more western than any of the Eastern teams. It would help if the NBA moved to an NFL/MLB style and just had conferences that were unrelated to their geography. With local divisions, there's no need to have geographic conferences anyway.

[Pelicans78]

Isn't New Orleans technically further east than Memphis? Its close since both are on the Mississippi River.

[Pelicans78]

Just looked it up. New Orleans is further east than Memphis. Plus, throw in the rivalry with Atlanta, Tampa, and Carolina from the NFL, the Pelicans would fit in nicely with the Hawks, Bobcats, and the two Florida teams.

However both New Orleans and Memphis are further west of Milwaukee.

[TrainOfThought5]

Closest i could think is chicago.

[Infinite_limit]

Bucks might make sense, that's all I could come up with.

It needs to happen though because the East is a joke. Adding Memphis would at least make it a little more interesting.
And when Zo/Gasol retire? You move them back West?


NBA needs to scratch the whole East vs West setup. Only the NHL still uses that and they recently swapped a bunch of teams.

[Mal]

And when Zo/Gasol retire? You move them back West?


NBA needs to scratch the whole East vs West setup. Only the NHL still uses that and they recently swapped a bunch of teams.

Nah, there is something legit in this franchise. Some east franchise are meant to be shitty

[Dancelot]

Think about this, if Memphis or New Orleans moved east & a team from the east went to Seattle & took okc's spot in their division, that means okc would probably be put in the southwest division. :wow

[Caltex2]

Here's a crazy idea: 3 conferences of 10 divided into divisions of 5. You play everyone in your division 5 times (20), everyone in the other division 4 times (20) and teams in the other conferences about 2 times (21 games apiece, rotate the odd team).

All the division winners advance to the playoffs and then the next 10 best records also advance. No one is guaranteed a top-6 seed though.

And yes, I told you this was weird. Here are my conferences:

West:

Golden State
LA Clippers
LA Lakers
Portland
Sacramento

Denver
Memphis
Oklahoma City
Phoenix
Utah

Central

Dallas
Houston
Minnesota
New Orleans
San Antonio

Chicago
Cleveland
Detroit
Indiana
Milwaukee

East:

Boston
Brooklyn
New York
Philadelphia
Toronto

Atlanta
Charlotte
Miami
Orlando
Washington

[313]

Here's a crazy idea: 3 conferences of 10 divided into divisions of 5. You play everyone in your division 5 times (20), everyone in the other division 4 times (20) and teams in the other conferences about 2 times (21 games apiece, rotate the odd team).

All the division winners advance to the playoffs and then the next 10 best records also advance. No one is guaranteed a top-6 seed though.

And yes, I told you this was weird. Here are my conferences:

West:

Golden State
LA Clippers
LA Lakers
Portland
Sacramento

Denver
Memphis
Oklahoma City
Phoenix
Utah

Central

Dallas
Houston
Minnesota
New Orleans
San Antonio

Chicago
Cleveland
Detroit
Indiana
Milwaukee

East:

Boston
Brooklyn
New York
Philadelphia
Toronto

Atlanta
Charlotte
Miami
Orlando
Washington
Maybe I'm missing something but isn't that just 61 games? The league would never cut that many games tbh interesting concept though.

[313]

It would help if the NBA moved to an NFL/MLB style and just had conferences that were unrelated to their geography. With local divisions, there's no need to have geographic conferences anyway.
Agreed. Not sure why they're so opposed to the idea.

[Mark Celibate]

Maybe I'm missing something but isn't that just 61 games? The league would never cut that many games tbh interesting concept though.
I think what he meant was "playing twice against each team of other conferences", so the figure "21" should be multiplied by 2 according to his calculation, and with the previous 40 games added the final result is exactly 82. But it puzzles me how the number "21" was calculated. There're only 20 teams outside your conference and if you play each of them twice, the final output is 40 and the total number of games played in a season is 80 instead of 82, imho.

[313]

I think what he meant was "playing twice against each team of other conferences", so the figure "21" should be multiplied by 2 according to his calculation, and with the previous 40 games added the final result is exactly 82. But it puzzles me how the number "21" was calculated. There're only 20 teams outside your conference and if you play each of them twice, the final output is 40 and the total number of games played in a season is 80 instead of 82, imho.Ah okay. And I think he said there will be an odd team you play 3 times? That still just makes 81 so maybe there are two odd teams you play three times.

[Caltex2]

I think what he meant was "playing twice against each team of other conferences", so the figure "21" should be multiplied by 2 according to his calculation, and with the previous 40 games added the final result is exactly 82. But it puzzles me how the number "21" was calculated. There're only 20 teams outside your conference and if you play each of them twice, the final output is 40 and the total number of games played in a season is 80 instead of 82, imho.

You play 10 teams x 2= 20
Add 1 more game against the said conference against one team and rotate that each year=21

x

2 (conferences)
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42 extra non-conference games.


OR


20 divisional

20 other intra-conference divisional

21 conference A

21 conference B
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82 games


Ah okay. And I think he said there will be an odd team you play 3 times? That still just makes 81 so maybe there are two odd teams you play three times.

Yeah, you play an odd team each season from the other conferences and rotate.

[Caltex2]

Another formula that could work is:

6x4=24 divisional games

4x5-2=18 intra-conference divisional games

10x2=20 conference A

10x2=20 conference B
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82 games

I do the formula like that because the NBA likes every team visting every other NBA city at least once.


ALSO:

No divisions--

Conference teams play about 5 times intraconference and play everyone else twice.

Formula

9x5-3=42

10x2=20

10x2=20

Again, I'd take away from the interconference games to balance it to 82 games but the NBA wants every team in the league to play a home and home at least, which is why I took it from the intraconference games.