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Monday, April 10, 2006
NBA Playoffs and Further Ranting.
Monday April 10, 2006.Right now the Chicago Bulls have 6 games left in the 2005-06 NBA season. The Philadelphia 76ers also have 6 games left. Through 76 games, both teams have won 35 games and lost 41. And both being Eastern Conference teams, they are currently fighting for the 8th and last playoff spot to be decided in just over a week.
The Utah Jazz and the NO/Oklahoma City Hornets both have 37-39 records -- two wins better than the Bulls and Sixers -- but will each fail to make the playoffs regardless because they are in the more competative Western Conference.
The east coast / west coast talent-division in American basketball seems to reflect a similar sporting-success pattern in the southern hemisphere. In the current season of AFL football, "western" teams (the West Coast Eagles, Fremantle Dockers and Western Bulldogs) have an average winning percentage of 83%, while their eastern-states blood-enemies only average 42.3%. Although the Sydney Swans defeated the Eagles in last years grand final, the past is evidently past.
In an Anglo-American-centric view of world history, a similar sad story is told.
Is it really a case of the east being "least" and the west conversely "best"? Will Victorian football fans pick flaws in my geographical reasoning? Will Allen Iverson get a chance to repeat his league best playoff scoring average from last year, and lead the 76ers back to the NBA Finals?
That's some deep shit worth contemplating.
