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Re: How far the East has come
I'd say the East is just as good as the West as far as champions go, but the West is overall better.
The East has less quantity of good teams but more quality champions. The last 6 championships have gone Spurs-Pistons-Spurs-Heat-Spurs-Celtics - 3 West are all the San Antonio Spurs, 3 East are 3 different teams.
This is the neverending see-saw of power. The WEST sucked mostly during the 90's Chicago Bulls runs. The Eastern Conference was the better conference, and players started heading out West to be able to avoid Jordan and the Bulls. The Western teams then were set to dominate the 2000's and the East is experiencing the rebuilding mode after the 90's.
Now you have players going to the EAST conference because it's easier to make the playoffs and compete. Same thing that happened in the 90's with the WEST during the Bulls years.
Once this generation passes, Kobe retires, Duncan retires, etc... then you will have the Eastern conference dominating (LeBron, Dwight, Wade, etc..) while the West goes back to rebuild mode.
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