even if you win your division, you can lose homecourt advatage to a team with a better record. you can make the playoffs even if you dont have the top 8 record, but you need win total for homecourt.


how lucky are we to be in the east anyway? teams are imploding left and right.

Lucky to be in the east? It's not like New York is a borderline state geographically that could have been put in either conference!