If the Los Angeles Lakers and the Los Angels Clipper face off in the Western Conference playoffs, will it be necessary to change the basketball floor since both teams play in the same arena.
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Home court advantage will still be a factor (Just not a big one cause both teams can still sleep at their own house) - but since season ticket holders get the first chance at buying tickets - For the Clipper games - the majority will be Clipper fans, and same for the Lakers.  The floors will still change of course.  \n\nThey will meet in round 2.  I think it will be a good close series.  The Clips have home court and a better team, but the Lakers have Phil Jackson who is a playoff legend.  I see the Clippers wining in 7 games.
290877
the lakers arn't the same without the 3peat team. I like shaq and any team he's with. Go Miami Heat, but I don't think they're in the playoffs
529006
Yes the Lakers are going just like they did last year and they will go past the 1st round. Thats an obvious statement.......\n\n\nTo the guy who said the last good Laker team was in Minneapolis...are u @#$%^*! Magic...Kareem, Worthy, SHOWTIME.......or did u forget......
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San Antonio\nLos Angeles\n\nTwo different cities.\n\nThe Spurs play in San Antonio.\nThe Clippers and the Lakers play in Los Angeles.
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I agree hands down. Its been intense, especially last nights LA win at the staples center. Another good one has been the Bulls- Heat. There has been some tempers, plus the Bulls are giving the Heat some problems and making the games close. This years playoffs could be one for the ages!
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The NBA has it so that you can still be higher seed, but not have homecourt advantage. The team with the better record will get homecourt advantage, even if the other team has a higher ranking.
520645
Lakers will go into the 3 round of the playoffs. They will beat the suns in the playoffs.
675872
Home court advantage is decided based on initial seeding, with the higher seeded team having home court advantage. In the finals, where the two teams were not seeded against each other, the team with the better record gets home court advantage. Normally in a 7 game series, games are played as follows for the higher seeded team (H=play at home, R=play on the road)\nH, H, R, R, H, R, H\n\nHowever, in the finals, that changes to be:\nH, H, R, R, R, H, H
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They would just work the schedules - You are also assuming they would all have home court/ice advantage - the games are spread out enough. It's also happened in Boston or Phoenix, I think - I'm sure somewhere else - where they played a hockey game during the day, then they just lay the basketball floor over the ice surface and play a night basketball game. The same scheduling conflicts occur all regular season, you know - the leagues just work together.
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The league moved to a 16 team format beginning in 1984. Round one was a best-of-five series for years, but changed to a best-of-seven in 2001, I think.\n\nThe change was due in part to the increase in popularity, thanks to Bird and Magic. This was David Stern's first year as commissioner also, and he saw it as a way to increase television revenue.\n\nAlso, it virtually guaranteed that Michael Jordan's sub .500 Bulls would still make the playoffs.
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yeah NBA finals goes by baaseball play-off schedules, so the second one.\n\nhonestly, i wouldnt call it an advantage to get "home court" because if you lose one at home, they can take the series by taking 3 at their place. \n\nthe first one is more home court.
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Wow!!! What a very informing question. Informing in the way that you made so much sense in your theory. I agree that the NBA cannot fix games in the sense of having a team just quit, but sabotaging a certain team with the crappy officiating now I can believe that. Coming from Utah and being a Jazz fan I can see this in every game since the refs totally hate Jerry Sloan. Not that you care or anything but Karl Malone said something interesting during an interview during all the hype of his statue and number retirement her In SLC i will quote the best I can he said,: I was out doing something other than basketball related things and ran into a NBA referee that refer ed many of the Jazz's games he told straight up that he was sorry that he coast the Jazz and Me a championship due to his bad  call in the finals" this was concerning the push off Jordan did on Bryon Russell. So this comment gives your theory a good leg to stand on.
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I would take away the foul rules.  It's gotten to the point that the officals would let them play rather than call fouls anyways.  Basketball now looks more like a mosh pit than a game.  If the officals were strict, both sides would basically be benched in the first 20 minutes of the game.
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No. First of all I see that the rockest are heatlthy but have alot of weaknesses on defense and there offense needs to improve the only team that i believe will make the playoffs is the sacramento Kings because they have a much improved team with Ron Artest.
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If they ever did expand, I hope they would add two teams to keep the balance between conferences. They could set it up like the NFL: four 4-team divisions, and the 82-game schedule would look like this:\n\n- 4 games vs. each division opponent (12 total)\n- 3 games vs. each remaining conference opponent (12 teams - 36 games)\n- 2 games vs. each of the other conference opponents (16 teams - 32 games)\n\nThat's 80 games, and the other 2 games can be held on a rotating basis against teams in other divisions who finished the previous season in the same position in their own divisions.\n\nNow, where would they go? LA has two teams already, so Anaheim wouldn't need one. San Francisco/Oakland has Golden State and Sacramento fairly close by already, so they're out. The NBA's current geographical alignment is as good as it can be with the placement of franchises, even with the Hornets playing so much in OKC.\n\nI wouldn't mind seeing teams in St. Louis or Kansas City (Western) and maybe back here in Cincinnati (Eastern). Realignment would make things pretty wacky, though, and could mess up the nice balance the league has. Do they really need extra teams?\n\nIf you're talking about just moving franchises, then since it seems OKC is able to support a team, that would be a good place to go. I honestly don't see the need to move any, and since the divisions and conferences have geographic names, the alignment should be geographically correct as well.
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Don't count on the Heat/Cavs being the next Laker/Celtic rivalry.  That was something we'll NEVER see again. For one thing, rosters are too unstable for any teams to have a solid ten year rivalry anymore.   The Celtics and Lakers played in the finals SEVEN times between 1959 and 1969.  No way any two teams today can do that.\n\nESPN's already tried to create the next Laker Celtic rivalry, with Cleveland and Denver.... from "Melo" and "Bron's" first day in the league, they were the next Bird/Magic... ESPN or TNT would even televise all of their games against each other (being in different conferences, they only play each other twice in the regular season)...   and we've all seen how THAT'S working out... by the time Magic and Bird were in the NBA for 3 years, Magic had two rings, and Bird got the other one.  Not only that, but the Denver/Cleveland games have been ATROCIOUS displays of 'basketball'.\n\nAnd it's true that Shaq is not the player he once was (he's maybe 20% of what he used to be)... but 20% of Shaq is still a hell of a lot better than 100% of  Zydrunas Ilgauskas.  That guy SUCKS.\n\nAnd even if Alonzo is only good for a few minutes at a time, that's all they needed him for this year.\n\nYeah, Jason Williams was all flash and no wins...until NOW!  Guess what? Until this year, so was Wade...(.And if Williams was all flash and no wins, what's Lebron?)\n\nAnd Haslem is an excellent player...I love that high, arching jump shot of his...nothing but the bottom of the net when he's on... and he's no all star, but when was the last time a team won a title with five all stars?  So what if he's not an all star, he'd start for Cleveland any day of the week.\n\nIn fact, Lebron is the only player on Cleveland who's better than his counterpart on the Heat.\n\nCleveland's not going anywhere. We're not going to see them in the Conference Finals for the next ten years...\n\n I think Wade will win more titles than Lebron, unless Lebron goes to another team. There is such a thing as a 'culture of winning', and Cleveland ain't got it. And they never will have it.  There's just something about playing in Cleveland.  The Cavs have never played in the finals. The Indians haven't won a World Series since 1920. The Browns (old and new) sucked (although they did win some titles in the 50s).\n\nI don't see Miami repeating next year. But you never know.\n\nWade will win more titles, unless Lebron gets his a$$ our of Cleveland.
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It is most likely leaving the arena without first talking with the media after a playoff game. Players are required to attend the post-game press conference and both the player and team are fined if they do not show up for it.