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Originally Posted by Seadood228
Please, please be trading for Kawhi, it makes sense signing a couple of decent minimum guys because a trade for Kawhi will probably hurt their depth.
Boston/Philly slappies (TOR too). Just because we say the East sucks doesn't mean your teams do. The projected 4th seed ITE wouldn't have made the 9th seed in the West this year, and the West dealt with a shedload of injuries.. Mediocrity ITW is rewarded with lottery picks, mediocrity in the East is rewarded with playoff appearances... and we wonder why the gap keeps widening.
East dealt with a ton of injuries too.
Boston had kyrie and GH go down.
Philly had fultz and embiid with mask.
Knicks had zingus.
Cavs had love get hurt and had to deal with ITs injury post trade.
There were other critical injuries as well.
East third seed had a better record than west 3rd, same thing with east 4th.
The West was very flat this year. West won the east vs west but the difference wasn’t ridiculous by any means.
East has two potential behemoths with sick assets and flexibility going forward. Lakers, Denver and Utah look well positioned going forward in the west especially if kawhi comes.