Monday, May 12, was a dark day in the Association. Dallas, with 1.8% odds, won the Cooper Flagg lottery. A couple of hours later Jayson Tatum was lost indefinitely. These two events tilted the already West-listing league further in that direction. A few months before, Jimmy Butler was shipped West.
Boston is crippled, Old Milwaukee is flat, New Miami was a chimera. There are the "Pacers" and "Knicks", that's all.
Might it not be wise for Adam Silver to league-wide seeding for the playoffs?