Why Has The Eastern Conference Felt Weak Most Of Your Life?

[@Dom2k16]

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[@slickeddy2000]

Hi Dom excellent video can you do a Video of How 1999 short season had a crazy Domino effect so many games in that short Time definitely Ruined some Nba Careers (Patrick Ewing Grant Hill,Penny Hardaway). Like how you mentioned T-Mac leaving Vince to play With Grant Hill and Tim Duncan. If Grant Hill never gets hurt from that ‘99 season

[@khaitranngoc4176]

Milwaukee and Charlotte trading a top 20 and a top 10 players all time for a combination of Robert Traylor and 2 years of Vlade Divac, to create an elite team and a genuine dynasty both out West needs to be talk about more. Cause damn, you'd be disappointed if you get that package for an all star now.

[@mike04574]

you think the 1999 season should have been cancelled? dont think ive ever seen an nhl fan say they wanted their 2004-2005 season cancelled in hockey

[@snipergangdrob5940]

This shit sadly aged not great, cus the east is a different level of ass this year. There are 2 good teams, 3 mid teams, and 10 teams that would be the 12th team in the West.

[@theMF16-26]

The problem with the East is that it’s been dominated by just one guy since 1990. The East literally goes Jordan, randomness in the 2000s, Lebron.

[@trexkarma112]

@@urbaindelva7869you’re a goofy for trying to turn this to a jordan v bron debate… straight up dull minded

[@Christo_Trismegistus]

I agree that LeBron had more help but the level of competition LeBron had to face in the finals night have been harder when LeBron had to play the KD Warriors. I'm from Chicago and I don't think the Jordan Bulls could beat the KD Warriors

[@kobe2kallday]

​@@Christo_Trismegistusbro even the drose bulls was a tough team to beat fr

[@colesmith193]

@@urbaindelva7869literally has nothing to do with what he said 🤦‍♂️

[@thedargon6899]

@@Christo_Trismegistusplus he had the super team Celtics, the Lowry derozan raptors and those pg oladipo pacers teams to face. The east as a whole was weak but the top teams were still elite.

[@aidanmashburn9405]

I feel like part of it is that a lot of free agents prefer to go to a destination out west. With the exception of New York or Miami ofc. Weather seems to be a factor as well.

[@konzza]

Well... It's only LA and San Francisco attracting free agents in west, so there is no difference in that regard.

[@jrdb04]

@@konzzanah pheonix is actully a city a lot enjoy and places like that are close to vegas and Houston and Dallas are also hot cities there defiantly more out west

[@lakernation26]

@@jrdb04phoenix is basically a desert LA it’s a nice area

[@jrdb04]

@@lakernation26 e expect it isn’t u do realise pheonix is Lori the 6th highest populated city in the us and is drive away from Vegas and la like 5 hours by car ?

[@LASAGNA_LARRY]

@@jrdb04Phoenix IS in a desert though. A desert is not an attractive place to go if weather is the main factor. Houston in comparison is a humid, sprawling coastal city that’s actually bigger than Phoenix too.

[@urbaindelva7869]

To me, it was a combination of poor decision-making from the Eastern front offices, less star power (or lack thereof), (super)stars moving from east to west, and less attractive free agent destinations. Also, it was always the bottom half of the East that crippled it mainly. 31:38

[@YodaSmokes]

It’s geographical based. Look at how little space the east takes up compared to the west. It’s all basically on the eastern coastline

[@patclearly]

Kobe, Duncan were top 5 for 15 years and never left. Add in Dirk, Nash, KG, etc and more than likely they have 4 of top 5 and 8 of top 10 players in the league. It’s all about where the best players are. Only one team can have Kobe or Duncan and if that’s where they are that’s where the advantage is.

[@theimpersonator7086]

I would say 2 key parts that make the East so weak is: -Out west, the toughness of the competition is naturally going to incentivize FOs to either tank well or build contending teams. Meanwhile the East has franchises like the Wizards or Bulls that are always mediocre/awful -Teams that want to tank out West have a advantage playing tougher teams more times rather than the bad East teams

[@2Quick4You100]

The 2 best players ever are in the east

[@jrdb04]

@@2Quick4You100that means nothing when 6 out of the next 8 hung there uniforms mostly out west magic Kobe Duncan hakeem shaq if u u wanna throw curry in there and Kareem

[@diegochavez6203]

​@@2Quick4You100na kobe better than expansion easy era mj

[@diegochavez6203]

​@@jrdb04curry hahah fk iutta here he belongs no where near the top 15

[@timothyjudge4807]

This was a truly phenomenal piece that sums up everything I've thought over the last 14 years of my life and being out east, hating the "west is always better" conversation. Thank you

[@chrisuncleahmad789]

The West was propped up by 2 teams for the entire 2000s

[@YodaSmokes]

The west has been significantly better and harder to maneuver through and make the finals the entirety of the time I’ve been alive. Pacers made the ECF last season while if they were in the west they wouldn’t have made it out of the play in if they even made the play in. Being in the east is a good way to get 5 extra wins if you are actually a legit team, you get more rest up until the finals and is a big factor when discussing the goat. If we open the conferences and just seed 1-16 would actually let us see who the best team is.

[@trestynmayberry8900]

DOM IS BACK WITH THE HOUR BANGERS

[@MEPv1]

I know it probably takes a long time to make these videos as well as you do, but I wish these would come out a bit more frequently. This content is what keeps me on KZbin

[@juliothom2408]

It’s overblown. I remember when the 80s had multiple title winners when LA was the only team in the West winning 50.

[@mike04574]

nah, its definitely not at its worst but it was pretty bad in the late 90s and early 2000s, after bulls and up until the pistons won something then it dipped again

[@leonardusbeaker638]

I agree but the title of the video and the demographic is probably focused at younger people who it is true for

[@559austin5]

80s was a phenomenal era for east. Lakers we’re just amazing

[@ulisesmartinez251]

The 80s was 40 years ago the east had been bad for quite a while

[@valleyshrew]

@@mike04574 East had a positive win rate in 96, 97, 98 & 99. Then they had 1 positive year in the next 22 years.

[@nicolopez7591]

Jordan's second retirement from the bulls just happened to be at the same time as the start of the Lakers-Spurs rivalry. The Spurs won their last Championship in 2014, and the Warriors dynasty got their first title the following season. I think that pretty much explains how the west became dominant.

[@YodaSmokes]

It’s geography based. Nearly the entire eastern conference is located on the eastern coast line of the US, with only a few teams in the middle of the country and even a lot of teams that should be in the east are in the west. When you geographically only have teams in maybe 25% of the country while the west dominates the rest of the country geographically, it seems nearly impossible to have balance. Get rid of conferences please, they aren’t necessary.

[@TiagoGomez-hb9te]

NBA's way too biased towards the West

[@SimuLord]

If you draw a line along the Mississippi River and give all the electoral votes in the US presidential election to one candidate in the east and the other in the west, the guy who wins the east gets 311 electoral votes, the west gets 217, and the other 10 depend on how you want to classify Minnesota (the only state the river runs through where it isn't a state border.) The west therefore may dominate geographically but it only has 40 percent of the people by that rough-estimate method. And that's if you consider states like Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana "the West"...personally I think you've got to be in at least the Mountain Time Zone before you're in "the West" in America. So in terms of cities with teams, that's Denver westward.

[@ValentinaRosas-i4q]

Now this is my day better!

[@nomorepartiezz]

I like the 55 year old men in here talking about “uh no remember the 80s” as if that wasn’t almost half a century ago lol. 90s- completely dominated by MJ. 2000s - random bullshit until Lebron while the West was a complete bloodbath with two concurrent dynasties and 50 win teams all the way down the playoff bracket year in year out. Late 2000s - Early 2010s - Celtics or Lebron/Heat Rest of 2010s - Lebron Early 2020s - Celtics or Heat except the one year of Milwaukee Even now during the era of parity where the East is the strongest it’s been in decades, it’s still super top heavy while in the West it feels like there’s 10 playoff teams every year.

[@Kap_NYC]

*Finally!* Someone says this.

[@JokicCantBeatTheWizards]

90s - Knicks, Pacers, Pistons, and MJ

[@Kap_NYC]

@@JokicCantBeatTheWizards Not even the Pistons, because they were either old or it was just Grant Hill on those teams.

[@Jonathan-A.C.]

West has not been as good relatively in terms of all of those lower teams. They’ve been good, usually better than the East, but I wouldn’t say 2000’s good. OKC is still young, Mavs were inexperienced, Grizzlies have been young and up and coming, Pelicans have been working with Zion, the Lakers have had various issues or just a lacking roster, Minnesota just came up, and now the Warriors are completely out of the picture. Clippers have had issues as well. That’s about all the major ones, IIRC, over the last 4-5 years

[@Jonathan-A.C.]

@@JokicCantBeatTheWizards Knicks and Pacers were always behind MJ tho, unfortunately. But they were amazing

[@thespiralgoeson]

This is a very good breakdown of why *each individual team* in the East has failed over the years, but it does not explain why there seems to be a pattern of the conference as a whole being weak for decades. Perhaps because there isn't a real explanation. It's hard for me accept that there isn't some structural flaw within the NBA itself that has caused the East to be weaker than the West year after year after year. It seems to actually be a coincidence, unlikely as that is statistically. I've heard people speculate that is has something to do with free agents preferring warmer weather cities in the West, but I don't buy that. Only the Lakers, and to a far lesser extent the Clippers, have a real track record of success with drawing high profile free agents. The Heat have had just as much if not more success, and the Nets have recently as well. It really seems like teams in the West generally *just happen* to have better management and frankly better luck.

[@KingSyilver]

Auerbach was so good, the grim reaper had to intervene... twice!

[@diegochavez6203]

Na they had a Mafia that controlled the league he was a cheater

[@jorgeluiz07]

I think most of weakness of the East can be explained from bad FO of the Knicks, which failed to create a culture such as Celtics and Heat to support superstars to sign and live in a huge market of NY. Knicks and Nets must build up before bring superstars, as Nets demonstrated in failed Big 3. Moreover, the Bulls is suffering since the end of 90's dinasty, so Chicago is another big market in the East that is not attractive. In the end of the day, only Boston and Miami have a signature culture and their recent success in East playoffs summarizes why these teams are the only really strong in that conference. It is always those two teams with a couple of wild cards that made good drafts and trades that goes to the semi-finals...

[@micahheyward5342]

This is pretty much an extended/expanded version of a video he did covering the Eastern Conference from 2000-2019

[@Rarefied-Air]

Isn't that the first thing he said in the video?

[@Jetanium]

​@@Rarefied-Airbro idk why, but KZbin comments are full of people just typing out stuff they literally heard in the video 2 seconds ago.

[@pluto545]

Most of the continually losing franchises are often regulated to the East, since like the ABA--NBA merger, while alot of them just aren't free agent destinations. Cleveland, Orlando, Charlotte, Detroit, Brooklyn/New Jersey... The Western Conference has had alot more parity with different teams making the playoffs or capturing home-field advantages for over 30 years, and often the gap is not too great between #1 seed vs. #6/#7. There's been quite a few seasons where those teams are only separated by 5 or less wins.

[@panosx13x45]

In many seasons the WCF was the actual Finals.

[@antcantcook960]

If you’re 30 and younger, that certainly wasn’t the case in the 80s and 90s.

[@mtp7479]

Honestly I’m amazed I watched this whole video through, but great job! Very informative and entertaining, always love the nba hypotheticals we’ll always wonder.

[@adamabramson6094]

Most ppl don’t think about the time differences a 6 pm game in LA is like a 10pm game for East coast teams.

[@Ben-zr4ho]

What a MONSTER of a video... I was going to say add some licensed music and flashy graphics and it could be in ESPN but it was better than 95% of what's on ESPN.

[@UnoDinero95001]

0:15 thats a crazy fit icl😭😭

[@prod.nickmgic1119]

I’ve been watching a lot of KZbin recently and settling for poorly made content, but you only put out heat Keep going

[@theunconventionalenglishman]

As a relatively new NBA fan (5 years), this was a wicked rundown. I learned a bunch - great work mate!

[@MrEOM41]

Because the East never build teams with depth.. they draft terrible and almost always give up the stars/or lose them to a western team.

[@chrisuncleahmad789]

The West had no depth. LA won 5 titles with basically 2-man teams

[@x-man9473]

@@chrisuncleahmad789 Depth of a conference isn't based off of "winning championships". It's based of all star, all nba, all defense talent and regular season wins.

[@MrEOM41]

@@chrisuncleahmad789two top 10 players all time

[@xxREmex564]

Great video. The East today feels top heavy, with multiple unproven contenders being at the top. I always thought West teams just had better front offices, but damn injuries really did shut out a lot of potential in the East.

[@idle.michael]

amazing video. i love going through history and hearing you narrate it Dom makes it so much better, you’re a great teacher and ball historian

[@TheOuttaPocketVarietyShow]

Boston really got snakebit in the 90s. And if you really do a deep dive into Reggie Lewis alone, he always gave Jordan a run for his money. Safe to assume the Bulls may not have got 6 had Bird's back not given out and the two deaths. Goes to show you how much sports medicine and treatments are night and day from then to now because Bird was only 11 years in by 1991.

[@x-man9473]

Nah. They were going to destroy the Celtics once the Bulls were at their best.

[@robert-surcouf]

Every time peoples talk about Anthony at Detroit, they always forget that will likely means no trade for Rasheed Wallace in the 03-04 season so who thinks the pistons could win the title in 2004 and make the finals in 2005 without Rasheed ?

[@clarkfitzgerald8814]

I haven't watched the video yet, and I'm sure it's great, but over 1 hour is a long time to say "no one wants to play on the east coast"

[@t-god2439]

This video right here is what made you the goat

[@hellraiser420]

7:27 Shawn Kemp was not "Very Washed" in 1999. That is objectively false. With Cleveland that season he literally averaged a career high in points with 20.5 along with 9.2 rebounds and finished 11th in the MVP race

[@holdmyweight3597]

He was statpadding on a bad team. He had lost most of his athleticism so he just looked old

[@TH-cq7bj]

West hit on their top picks and the east didn’t throughout the 2000s. Also LeBron teaming up with other top stars in the same conference made it less competitive in the 2010s

[@xylynthian753]

Boston did it first

[@TH-cq7bj]

@ no. Boston traded for Ray Allen and KG. Also their big 3 were 32+ yrs old. Miami signed all 3 of their stars at their absolute peaks

[@Youllneverfindmezx]

I actually believe that the reason the East has felt weak is because the West has historically drafted better than the East on top of people leaving for Western conference destinations. Especially recently the West has been better at drafting. I can't remember for the Wizards except for Beal and Wall, for the Hornets since Lamelo Ball, Pistons drafting ???? (Drummond isn't that good) Nets drafting Allen, New York ???. Most of the top end talent on East teams except the Celtics, Philly, Miami, Milwaukee (even then having Jrue and Dame on the team) and Orlando were drafted in the West. It says a lot when it seems these organisations consistently miss on drafting. It seems only Miami, Boston and Toronto have been good at drafting great players over the last 15 years.

[@codystork3008]

I would add Indiana to that list due to their 2010s squad, and maybe Haliburton. Indy just cant keep stars past the first contract.

[@resident-one1533]

​@@codystork3008indy didn't draft hali

[@badMoonStudios13]

Good work. I can see you are a serious hoopHead! Respect.

[@JazzYachtrocker]

I thought about this for a while since this was posted, I believe it’s actually manipulated that way. Most of your big markets are in the eastern conference so if you keep the Eastern conference week, it’s much easier for your Boston, your New York your Phillys, Chicago etc to get to the finals.

[@TiagoGomez-hb9te]

Yeah pretty much...

[@vlada]

Hell of an expensive conspiracy having 10 crappy teams for decades.

[@JazzYachtrocker]

@@vlada well, the league has revenue sharing so if you’re a bottom feeder you still get paid. MJ cashed out from a Hornets team that was one of the worst in league history. We know refs “fix” games for their own benefit so to assume it’s beneath the league seems near sided. We know the league is best when the big markets are flourishing. David Stern said himself the dream finals would be the lakers vs the lakers. So what’s actually more “expensive?” Or what makes them the most money? Having Charlotte or Orlando be a Dynasty? No no no. Remember they almost did that in Orlando and what happened? They sent Shaq to LA when Michael came back. Maybe you forget the WCF with the lakers vs kings where most fans believe the league helped the lakers win. That was the year Stern made that statement about lakers vs lakers. The league is a business, don’t put anything past them.

[@diegochavez6203]

Colville needed a one-time All-Star to go to three straight finals and went back to back in a loaded conference shows you he's the goat

[@MarLikeIt]

Great Video Dom2k. Stuff like this gives me nostalgia

[@de132]

Yesterday I learned that Jack Sikma ended his NBA career with Milwaukee

[@XMHOOD]

It's been a long time since I've seen one of your videos and I get why. A one hour long video titled "Why has the Eastern Conference felt weak most of your life" just to explain it's because it was weak.

[@yoyoyong211]

Jay Williams motorcycle injury, Knicks trading for Carmelo, Nets tank after Jkidd era, the guy shot his limo driver, Celtics and Sixers go full tank just to get Embiid and Tatum. Breakup of Pistons. Wizards John wall implosion. Heat tank 15 wins. Coaching drama - Fisher, VanGundy, Isiah Thomas. Best teams were the Magic with Rashard/Turkoglu/Dwight, Kidd/Jefferson/Vince, LeBron/MoWilliams/Ilgauksas. Each legit team kept getting fully imploded.

[@Djkool28-u1s]

💯💯🔥🔥Best of videos todays and I likes dom2k talk about Basketball from 2000s 2010 modern on KZbin Channels

[@funkdoc1112]

The East was wayyyyy better than the West in the 80s, actually. The West was HORRENDOUS. The Lakers had a red carpet to the finals every year.

[@ItsTj4showw]

Great vid dom. Hope daddy life is treating you well 🫡

[@johnnycee9325]

24:00 "We haven't checked on Bosh at all!" 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@glenn8886]

80s is clearly a "strong East weak West era", 87 Lakers was one of the greatest team ever, but also run though arguably the weakest first 3 rounds ever until facing Boston.

[@zenith1040]

I'd say the east was very top-heavy in the 80s, sure the top teams in the east were great but the 6 seeds were below 500

[@BoybDee]

The fixed Draft Lottery in the NBA is why! Period!

[@ryansanow3276]

God I am so ready for the NBA to come back. Good shit Dom

[@Turk_2023]

Even with the west seeming better the GSW, Spurs and Lakers were in the finals every year 2000-2020. OKC once and Dallas twice. East was Boston, NJ, Toronto, Orlando, Cleveland, Miami, Detroit. Lebron was in like 10 finals.

[@ty50bmg11]

The fact is most Eastern conference teams have been not managed very well compared to those in the West

[@Ben-zr4ho]

Serious career altering injuries aren't the exception but the norm. Even Kobe and MJ (in D.C). That's a major reason why guys like Kareem and LeBron are in the GOAT conversation and 1, 2 in scoring all time. Would LeBron be in the GOAT conversation if his career lasted as long as say Magics? 2 championship and 3 or 4 losses. No ring for Cleveland. No big finals comeback. No career records. Etc etc

[@tomtao5026]

This could be a factor but I remember this sleep podcast citing a study that showed Eastern time zone teams performing worse going to play games in the West and West teams playing better in the East due to the sliding of their schedules/sleep schedules

[@J3rrytheJ0ker]

fire production here from the legend dom2k

[@riccardoferrazzo8283]

In the early 2000s, the 11th seed in the west would have been a 3rd-4th seed in the east.

[@KimberlyEdwards-od4tt]

Each time you post, I'm excited!

[@mrtruthhurts2307]

You make dope videos, keep up the good work my brother.

[@yungflav193]

Been waiting for this one

[@Phrangkey]

The dig at max Kellerman in the 13th minute is amazing!! 😂

[@officialconch]

0:34 Bro summoned a chair 😭

[@noelhernandez8188]

That Jersey team was the most exciting team in the league during the years they were lit, had that team been playing in MSG they'd be remembered differently by history

[@ryanriddle4808]

WE LOVE THE HOUR LONG VIDEOS, LFG

[@brando_05]

After the 80s, West for the most part always had a number of contenders with some teams behind them that could compete. East is usually top heavy or dominated by 1 team/player. There are some outlier years for both but I believe that's been the trend.

[@TiagoGomez-hb9te]

Yes, this is true. The East tends to have only 1 or 2 truly Elite teams with the rest being garbage.

[@SimuLord]

Even as a teenager in the '90s, the Western Conference playoffs were deeper and more fun to watch than Chicago disposing of a weak Knicks team which disposed of a weak Pacers team on their way to the inevitable title. I'm old enough to remember when the opposite was true. Even though Boston inevitably came out of the East, they seemed to have a bigger fight against Philly or Milwaukee or Detroit than Magic and company had against a bunch of Mickey Mouse outfits in the WCF in the '80s (although what was it with Houston in '81 and '86 disposing of LA? That Rockets team was _weird_ for years.)

[@GoodyearSimp]

My takeaway: The Hornets have never been relevant and the story of NBA history can be told without that franchise.

[@Kap_NYC]

14:45 Never even knew about their relationship. That’s crazy. Wouldn’t expect them to be friends much less best friends.

[@Alomakedo]

video soundtrack fye for no reason

[@dave_407]

Peak physical performance is in late afternoon/ early evening. So when eastern conference teams go west on a road trip they are playing much later and way past their peak performance that day. When west teams go east they’re essentially playing at the most ideal time of day physically.

[@theophilusjones6024]

Wizards and Hawks don’t get any more midder than those two franchises.. it’s actually crazy

[@waltbethea]

Omg an hour long video, Dom’s feeding families today (aka helping me have something on so I can do homework)

[@d.columbia9603]

The leastern conference has several things working against it. The west coast has more desirable locations, so free agents with star power tend to prefer going west and the west tends to have better run organizations. The spurs have struggled recently built up by solid drafting and a cornerstone in duncan. Same with the mavs and gsw. The clippers and LA attract star power. The franchises in NY are ran very poorly so the star power is irrelevant. The heat are ran well, but don't have any elite supetstars since the heatles broke up. The 76ers are a joke. Chicago hasn't been relevant for what feels like 30 years though they had a brief glimpse of hope with rose.

[@TiagoGomez-hb9te]

This is very sad but true

[@Fryking13]

Dom drops a vid n I click. That simple 🔥

[@lrkcm373]

Milwaukee screwed itself during the late 90s through all of the 2000s. Could’ve paired Ray Allen with Dirk, but chose to ship him to Dallas for nothing. Let Coach Karl destroy the 2001 team before dipping himself. Blew multiple draft picks to surround Micheal Redd with nothing. Chose Monte Ellis over Steph Curry. And lucked into drafting Giannis and also proceeded to not put the best roster around him.

[@sdmurphy20]

Imagine that 01 squad in the finals. Would've lasted longer than 5 games

[@Zeltalu]

I get depression every time i think of the pistons' draft fumble on melo. Could have dominated that decade.

[@anthonylandin6788]

1:17:06 i love how the mavericks only have one good team in the la and spurs dynasty and it wasn't the one who one a chip

[@SamuraiSam]

Nice Time Wizard cameo

[@tariqroberson8496]

That death beam joke got me 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Alexred94]

With the emergence of free agency in the last 15 years or so,too many cold cities in the East lmao!

[@sayyidf.b.6378]

The Eastern Conference hasn't been weak since 2019. - The best team is in the East. - The best offense is in the East. - The best defense is in the East. - The East has more MVP candidates. The dudes saying the East is weak are still living in 2016.

[@unphazd5137]

The Eastern Conference is straight trash right now apart from the Cavs and Celtics, 5th place in the East right could have you 13th in the West right now.. NBA needs to do something...

[@sayyidf.b.6378]

@@unphazd5137 "The 5th seed in the Eastern Conference would be a the 13th seed in the Western Conference." Stop lying! 😂 The Indiana Pacers would be bustin' ass in the Western Conference, and they're the 10th seed.

[@unphazd5137]

@@sayyidf.b.6378 GET THIS IMPOSTER OUT OF HERE. 2-4 they'd be 14th in the West right now tanking for rookies... The East is straight trash

[@AKSourGod]

Lmfao, The nets had Jason Kidd and yeahhhhh, K Mart was not a scrub at all.

[@EndManMANn]

“A promise kept Philly from getting the truth “

[@83jdc1]

Dom, great video but those loid background effects are difficult for people with sensory issues

[@firas.alhamdani]

Clutch sport-sponsored video

[@Juice_plz]

52:40 “2020” was a regular year” is crazy out of context

[@Sizdothyx]

The thing is, it's not just LeBron dominating it. The other teams just regularly find it hard to break the 49-win threshold (the "this is a playoff team") barrier. Even with LeBron in the Eastern Conference throughout the 2010s, the fact that the Eastern Conference regularly has so few teams. Even if LeBron's team beats every playoff team in the regular season 3 times out of 4 or 2 times out of 3, there still should be 4-5 games to make that difference, but it doesn't. It's jarring how bad the Eastern Conference is. The West almost always has 1 or 2 extra teams that break that threshold. The sole exception to this rule, barring the 2011 Lockout, was 2018, where the Rockets and Warriors were the only teams that broke the threshold in the 2010s. That's 8 out of 10 seasons where the West had it. Yikes for the East.

[@jrdb04]

I find that weird two like the only time the east had more than 2 50 win teams post lockout to Lebron leaving was 2015 with that shitshow of a hawks team winning 60 games like it’s amazing how trash the overall conference record was been with team u expected to do something like the pacers when they were first seed had like 53 wins not bad but that’s like a 4th seed in the conference over

[@Sizdothyx]

@@jrdb04 I know, right?

[@boonebeasley9622]

So why hasn’t it been dominated since lebron since it’s still weak

[@jrdb04]

@ clearly u didn’t watch the video it wa bette than the west like 4 year right after Lebron left and one team dominating dosnt translate to weak also 2008 through 2011 was not weak and taht was before Lebron dominated so L take all around

[@xcvsumextra]

Because for the decades after Jordan. It was...

[@christophermsimon9956]

West coast teams benefit from the time difference & the weather not weighing their bodies down all winter. They go on East coast trips and rebound quicker than an East team feel like it’s like that in every sport.

[@jrdb04]

The weather I’ll give u but the time zone no when they travel east they loose 3 hours of sleep there ata. Disadvantage I’m that and it’s proven in every other sport the east coast teams are usslay the top teams in baseball new york football until the chiefs dynasty it was the patriots the giants won some rings and most of the teams in the super bowl were east coast or central time zone teams

[@BallBrainz]

Pls make a realistic what ifs sim 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 (these scenarios are gold)

[@theophilusjones6024]

Andy Hoops and Dom2K dropped on a random Monday 👀

[@2k1v1er2]

Rip Mutombo

[@hamishhunt555]

I think you miss just the statistical part of that if the west is stronger, their records will be lower than what they should be cause of the harder competition, why in the East teams will win more games than they should because they face more weak competition. So then the west teams getting top draft picks are better than the east teams getting top draft picks and hence can rebuild quicker

[@Kooper785]

glad someone finally said this, the weaker conference will always have their wins bumped up

[@Kooper785]

i think thats part of the reason 2023 western conference was a blood bath

[@chrisuncleahmad789]

@@Kooper785and that’s how so many West teams had artificially inflated win totals: the conference was weak

[@EdwardElfigo]

@@chrisuncleahmad789nah, the west still play 40% of their games against east teams, and have had an embarrassingly good record against the east for a lot of the past 20 years. In terms of players, the amount of western players that made the ALL NBA teams compared to the east was insane , especially in the 2000s to late 2010’s, it’s why a lot of people wanted it to be an overall all star game as supposed to having an east/west split in its selection, cause of how easy making the all star team out east was, in the west you had to be an all nba player, in the east just a good role player on a team that wins.

[@shaneyy__]

Great time to drop

[@yungtyro1424]

Stg I been saying this as Bron being my goat in a debate that MJ played no one after Detroit, lakers, and Boston championship teams disassembled an im an 80s baby I grew up on Mike but when I got older I realize he played nowhere near the competition Bron faced plus they only bring up his 91-98 years they never bring up the earlier years when he got swept damn near first round every year smdh

[@theresidentteacher2438]

Bro, PUT SOME RESPECT ON REGGIE MILLER AND THOSE PACERS

[@jameslightsey1761]

Definitely

[@boonebeasley9622]

One of the worst finals teams of all time

[@TiagoGomez-hb9te]

​@@boonebeasley9622 Why do you say this please?

[@theophilusjones6024]

People sleep on the East in the 2020s… since 2019 the East has been very good… the only year that was bad was last year and it had an HISTORIC amount of injuries… love the video fr, but it’s such a stretch how people were talking about the East like it’s still horrible. Most of 2010s and 2000s were bad absolutely

[@brycenbryan6054]

Dom, another masterpiece. Well done

[@harriscarson4207]

very well done video bro, got your self a subscriber lol

[@Ben-zr4ho]

Only the Celtics were winning titles in the East in the 80s. Well the Lakers were the only ones winning in the West. People also say the West sucked but they were damn good teams as well. Lakers and Celtics dominated the 80s.

[@PER578]

One of the main reasons could be location. I meant who wants to play in Toronto or Indiana?

[@chadd980]

What about Miami, Atlanta, New York, Brooklyn, even Orlando for weather and taxes

[@jimmykarlsson2567]

It became weaker after Jordan left