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I'm sure they will expand, but I think it would be a mistake. With around 6 teams in actively in tank mode I just don;t think there is enough talent to justify two more teams.

I like 8 divisions of 4. It gives you more flexibility in maintaining geographic rivals. I would ditch the Eastern & Western conference set-up & go to MLB & NFL conference / 'league' set-up.

I would like to see Round 1 be best of 5. In Round 1, higher seed starts on road, & is a AAHHH set up.

Round 1 of NBA Playoffs waste of time, usually 4-1 or 4-0, although this past season Round 1 was really good. So I guess maybe we're getting to the point where Best of 7 really is needed in Round 1? In that case maybe do a AAHHHHA set up.

Here's a set-up I came up w/ the current 30

Pacific
POR, SAC, GS, LA, LA

Mountain
PHX, UT, DEN, OKC, SAN

South
DAL, HOU, MIA, ORL, NO

Southeast
MEM, ATL, CHA, WASH, PHI

Midwest
MIN, MIL, CHI, IND, DET

Atlantic
TOR, CLE, BRO, NY, BOS

I like this set-up better than current set-up b/c it's more geographically aligned. Minnesota & Memphis aren't with the far west teams for example. It's hard to keep an East / West conference set-up tho in this scenario so it's ditched for a NFL / MLB set-up.

One conference: Atlantic, South, Pacific
Other conference: Midwest, Southeast, Mountain

If SEA & LV join:

Northwest
SEA, POR, SAC, GS

Southwest
LV, LA, LA, PHX

Mountain
UT, DEN, OKC, DAL

South
SAN, HOU, NO, MEM

Southeast
ATL, MIA, ORL, CHA

Midwest
MIN, MIL, CHI, IND

East
DET, CLE, TOR, WAS

Atlantic
BOS, NY, PHI, BKY

Conference A: Northwest, South, Mountain, Atlantic
Conference B: Pacific, Southeast Midwest, East

If Vegas comes & they resurrect the Sonics

Atlantic

Boston
NYK
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Washington
Charlotte
Orlando
Miami

Central

Toronto
Cleveland
Detroit
Indiana
Milwaukee
Chicago
Minnesota
Atlanta

Southwest

Memphis
New Orleans
SAS
Houston
Dallas
OKC
Denver
Utah

Pacific

Portland
Seattle
LAC
LAL
Sacramento
Las Vegas
Golden State
Phoenix

(05-20-2023 10:11 PM)Bronco14 Wrote:  PHX, UT, DEN, OKC, SAN

South
DAL, HOU, MIA, ORL, NO

I would flip Dallas and San Antonio. Dallas is closer to Oklahoma City, and Houston is closer to San Antonio. The only bad thing about your alignment is that Memphis, Oklahoma City, and New Orleans are all in different divisions - at least right now two of the three are together, and at least they are all in the same conference.

If I made any changes to the current alignment, I would probably do this:

Pacific
POR, SAC, GS, LAC, LAL

Mountain (Northwest)
UT, DEN, OKC, PHX, MN

Southwest
DAL, SAN, HOU, NO, MEM

At least from November to March the Northwest division would only have a one hour time difference between Phoenix and Minnesota/Oklahoma City.