Originally Posted by jpk

The East's only serious team was Detroit before Miami and Shaq. Just my opinion, but that was the opinion of most sports writers several years ago as well. The west had all of the contenders other than Detroit. And before Detroit sprung up, it had nobody which is how Philly got to the Finals. Granted, I was rooting for Philly and they played their hearts out. But they got destroyed. Now we have a very good balance between the two conferences.