Published 3/17/2008
by Ralph isaac
at Bleacher Report - NBA
As good as the college diehards wanna go on and on about NCAA march madness, right now i gotta go with the NBA. This has got to be one of the best seasons ever for the Nba: The western conference got 9 teams playing .600 ball: the west has never been tougher. Teams are stacked from top to bottom. There aren't any clear favorites. Every game counts down the stretch. You go on a little losing streak and you can find yourself out of a playoff spot. Can you guys even imagine it? to win 50 games and still not make the playoffs. And the Nba cannot deny that this has sparked interest into the league and people are tuning it. David Stern would be stupid to change the playoff format to the 16 best teams. What would be the point of having western and eastern conference??? The lakers and celtics are relevent again: the celtics being back into the elite is good for the Nba since it's one of the most storied franchise in nba history. Bird, Mchale, Russell are legends; now they are replaced by ...
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