And LA is 3 games back of 8 with the Rockets also losing and same for the Love-less Wolves. Not to mention the Jazz and Blazers have tailed off each of the past three plus years after the break. The Griz are also trying to cut cost and ship out Gay to get below the tax because they don't think they will win, so why pay it.
Being atop your Divison means nothing, winning games and a series then the conference and the title does. You get tot the dance and play ball, which the Knicks have never did.
I mean lets just hypothetically say LA gets 8 and the Clippers get 1, are they really fucked by a first round series in Staples with no travel for 2 weeks? Hey if GSW stays 4/5 that means the second round location is a 1 hour red eye flight. See my point and why it can make you look well for lack a better word, stupid, to right them off when the teams ahead of them outside SA, LAC, GS, and OKC?
You are so ignorant, seriously. I'm talking about the present. What's going on RIGHT NOW!! Winning games, and a series, and the conference, then the title matters, right? Well do you have a time machine? The Knicks haven't done said things yet because we're not that far in the season. I'm talking about this season. Don't bring up the Lakers 16 championships and the Knicks 2, because those rings aren't affecting the team's play this season.
The Lakers are a garbage basketball team, with a coach who won't win anything, because he can't win anything, because his system doesn't work and will never work. Their play this season also just proves that Kobe Bryant is undoubtedly, 100%, the single most overrated player in NBA history. Replace Kobe with LeBron and this team is UNDEFEATED. But I'm being a hypocrite, so this Kobe talk is for another day.