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Simple Answer -- Move Warriors to Eastern Conference

We as a Nation of Fandom do hereby Proclaim the Following, erm... Proclamation:

 

WHEREAS the Western Conference of the NBA is the most competitive league in all professional sports and

WHEREAS the Eastern Conference sucks and

WHEREAS this imbalance has not been addressed by the league itself, it now must reside in the hands of a popular movement and

WHEREAS the Oaktown Warmonsters are among the furthest west geographically of all teams, it follows that they are therefore, on a spherical globe, also among the easternmost.  As such, it wouldn't be any skin off anyone's nose if they traded places with, say, Miami, and made everybody happy.

Preposterous, you say?  Impossible?  Never going to happen?  Where are the Lakes in Los Angeles?  Where the Jazz in Utah?  Where the Knickers in Manhattan?

We would get to at least the second round in the East.  Baron would be a perennial All Star.  The entire benighted Eastern Seaboard would learn the greatness of all-offense-all-the-time.  Love would blossom across the land.

A petition is in order, as the only coherent response to the end of our legendary season.  A team who finishes 13 or 14 games above .500 deserves by every reasonable definition of playoff competition in any sport to attend those playoffs. 

We'll gather half a million signatures and hang them from the Oracle.  We'll charter all of our team flights ACROSS the Pacific eastward so as to bolster our argument.  Or we'll just turn our backs on the entire American deal and join a new Pacific Rim league with the Shanghai Sharks and play all our games in Hawai'i.

SOMETHING MUST BE DONE!!

SIGN THE PETITION!

This FanPost is a submission from a member of the mighty Golden State of Mind community. While we're all here to throw up that W, these words do not necessarily reflect the views of the GSoM Crew. Still, chances are the preceding post is Unstoppable Baby!

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how bout no? to go to the east they would have to come away. I prefer to be able to go watch them live.

by saintdee on Apr 15, 2008 5:52 PM PDT   0 recs

better yet,

we could just agree to play entire eastern playoff series on the road. I bet we could beat several of the 4-8 seeds out there over 7-games at their place.

by jjd on Apr 15, 2008 5:59 PM PDT   0 recs

let's just add the wildcard

that should do it and get us in :)

by Hac Man on Apr 15, 2008 6:11 PM PDT   0 recs

Yea a Wildcard

would be great. It solves the situation we have today.

It's Been A Great Year! Thanks Warriors!

by ballin on Apr 15, 2008 7:27 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Wilcard?

Are there real talks about establishing a Wildcard playoff format? If so, is there any information on how it would work?

How come I haven’t heard of this?

by HiroNakamura on Apr 15, 2008 11:09 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

There are already wildcards in basketball ...

Every team that is not a division winner is a wildcard …they just have so many they don’t bother to call them that …

"It's for your own good. Big strong Devo knows whats best for Poppy" -- Mossback

by devo on Apr 16, 2008 9:36 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

New York Warriors?

Well it didn’t work for the “New York Giants” in baseball so I don’t expect it to happen. Anyway, there was some momentum in Philadelphia but I think the Dubz will stay in Oakland smokin’.

by thecitygirl on Apr 15, 2008 6:14 PM PDT   0 recs

and have

a penalty box for when they’re allowed to throwdown. and put shock collars on coaches and land mines hidden inside the key… and play our home games on a floating boat!

aka GOLDENBOYWARRIOR

by gogomaplata on Apr 15, 2008 7:44 PM PDT   0 recs

lol
WHEREAS the Oaktown Warmonsters are among the furthest west geographically of all teams, it follows that they are therefore, on a spherical globe, also among the easternmost.

lmao

by singha on Apr 15, 2008 8:21 PM PDT   0 recs

No

it will sort itself out eventually, the East will become strong, the West will become weak, the Warriors will get in with 41 wins, and all the Hawks fans will be complaining.

We’re on the wrong side of it now, but we won’t always be.

by belilaugh on Apr 15, 2008 8:22 PM PDT   0 recs

Oh I have an idea!

Let’s move all eight teams in the western playoffs right now to the East and take their bottom eight teams and move it to the West. That way, we can be the number one seed in the West? Great idea huh?

by CatchAndShoot on Apr 15, 2008 8:55 PM PDT   0 recs

Simple Answer...

Just take the top 16 records (regardless of conference) to the playoffs. It really is that simple. If they did that we’d be in this year instead of teams like the weak Hawks. You’d have a more exciting and comptetive playoffs because it actually be the best 16 teams in the entire league. Bob Fitz is really pushin this idea to the league and I firmly back him up on it.

copy & paste: geocities.com/nellieballtee

by JonDoe on Apr 16, 2008 8:55 AM PDT   0 recs

6 Divisional winners

Then the next 10 best records is what Fitz is working for.

by Psion on Apr 16, 2008 2:22 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Agreed

It would be the best Idea because then every year there would be the best teams, not just the teams who were lucky to be in the weak conference. So when the east gets stronger they won’t complain and we wouldn’t be compaining right now. Plus the playoffs would be more interestng

by C Nast on Apr 16, 2008 7:32 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

All star game

From the Fitz files a while back, he suggest a Western, Central, and Eastern conference (and, of course, the 16 team bracket), which I think is and awesome/exciting idea. Do you guys have any idea if Fitz has said anything about how the All-star game would work with 3 conferences?

by HiroNakamura on Apr 16, 2008 10:48 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

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