hate to say it, but the guys at espn have it dead on; the nba eastern conference sucks LIKE CRAP at the current moment. it's even worse than in the previous years because now there is no more than 1 eastern conference team at the moment who can give the upper tiers of the western conference a challenge; in the past 2nd year, you had indiana, detroit and miami. in the past year, detroit and miami. now, its, ???

the only team that looks good is the orlando magic as of late. howard is just crazy. and getting better.

cavs have some better records, but they just lost to the knicks at HOME.

and pistons still aren't quite the good team they used to be, although they have been winning more games, it's due to their offense.

but things in may and june are a lot more different than they are here. maybe things'll look up. i greatly like and have high hopes in orlando, chicago and detroit.