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Why is there very little significance in winning the East or West pennant? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by DonT012@alien.top to c/nba@nba.space

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It seems like a lot of fans like to use the 4-6 argument for Lebron or Finals losses affect a player's legacy negatively more than early round losses. Why don't we celebrate winning the East/West pennant more often? It's almost as if making the Finals is as useful as making the playoffs and getting knocked out in the first round.

Yet in the MLB making the World Series is a BIG deal even if you get swept and blown out each game. It's considered so prestigious that we always say AL or NL pennant. Why don't NBA ever get to the same prestige level on winning the pennant as MLB?

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[–] 8ball-MJG@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

rank the best players he played against in the ECF from 2012-2018

[–] thy_armageddon@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

The Joker, Tony Shalhoub, wait no sorry I’m listing those suspected of murdering Batman’s parents.

[–] DrownedInBeans@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I think a part of the reason that the West had so much more star talent at this time was because players did not want to go to the East to try to build a team that could compete with Lebron's; they'd rather take their chances in the wild west. So while there are other factors, you could argue that Lebron's competition in the East was weak BECAUSE of how good he was.

[–] 8ball-MJG@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

which players do you honestly think thought about going to the East, but then stopped because of Bron?

[–] ressurectingphoenix@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair the East went almost 10 years without a true superstar being drafted after the 03 draft class. After wade and Lebron it wasn’t until Embid or Giannis that a true superstar developed in the East. If Rose had lasted longer I think Lebron would not have had such an easy time getting to the finals every year.

[–] pbcorporeal@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Dwight was drafted in '04

[–] Chriscustomkicks@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

It really felt like as soon as lebron went to the west , all of a sudden there was an influx of star talent to the east. Lebron had the east Gm’s thinking it was pointless to take big risks because he was gonna smoke them anyways so they waited him out .

[–] PonkMcSquiggles@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

The GMs in the East were probably hesitant to make risky win-now moves. I’m not convinced that the players themselves were especially concerned.