From: matthew@base.cs.ucla.edu (Matthew Merzbacher)
Subject: If the playoffs were held today (1/12)
Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department
Date: 12 Jan 93 21:17:45 GMT

Thanks to Gidi Avrahami, who sends me the standings every Tuesday.

Here's the weekly posting of "If the playoffs were today".
Full standings at end of post

The seeding information is reverse chronological.  That is, the current
seed is listed the the left, with the position in past weeks going right.

Example:
3. (1,2,B,...) Bayonne (10-3)...

Means that Bayonne is #3 seed this week, and was #1 last week and #2 the
week before.  A week before that, they were 11th (in hex 11=B), and so on.

The tie-breaker is division record followed by conference-record.

EASTERN CONFERENCE

1. (1,1,2,1,1,1,1,1) CHI (23-10) -+         Lead Division
                                  |-+
8. (7,4,4,8,5,2,2,4) ORL (14-14) -+ |
                                    |-+
5. (5,5,5,3,4,6,B,5) NJN (18-15) -+ | |
                                  |-+ |
4. (6,6,8,5,6,5,5,B) CHA (17-14) -+   |
                                      |--
3. (3,3,3,9,7,9,7,7) CLE (20-13) -+   |
                                  |-+ |
6. (4,7,7,B,C,E,D,A) DET (16-16) -+ | |
                                    |-+
7. (A,A,B,A,A,A,E,8) BOS (17-17) -+ |
                                  |-+
2. (2,2,1,2,2,4,4,2) NYK (19-12) -+         Lead Division

Games Behind (sorted by percentage)

GB  Pos  Prior Position   Team
1    9  (9,8,6,4,8,7,6,6) IND (15-17)
1.5  10 (B,9,9,6,9,8,8,9) ATL (14-17)
2    11 (8,B,A,7,3,3,3,3) MIL (14-18)
3.5  12 (D,C,C,D,E,D,A,D) PHI (11-18)
5.5  13 (E,D,E,E,D,B,C,C) MIA (10-21)
6    14 (C,E,D,C,B,C,9,E) WAS (10-22)


WESTERN CONFERENCE

1. (1,1,1,1,4,4,5,4) PHO (23- 5) -+         Lead Division
                                  |-+
8. (7,7,7,7,5,7,7,9) LAC (17-16) -+ |
                                    |-+
5. (5,8,9,8,A,8,A,D) SAN (18-13) -+ | |
                                  |-+ |
4. (4,4,4,3,1,1,1,1) POR (20-10) -+   |
                                      |--
3. (3,3,3,6,3,3,3,3) SEA (22- 8) -+   |
                                  |-+ |
T6 (8,6,6,4,6,5,6,6) LAL (18-14) -+ | |
                                    |-+
T6 (6,9,8,9,B,B,9,A) GOL (18-14) -+ |
                                  |-+
2. (2,2,2,2,2,6,4,2) UTA (21-10) -+         Lead Division

Games Behind (sorted by percentage)

GB  Pos  Prior Position   Team
1     9 (9,5,5,5,7,2,2,7) HOU (14-13)
2.5  10 (A,A,B,B,9,A,8,5) SAC (11-16)
7.5  11 (B,B,A,A,8,9,B,C) DEN ( 7-20)
9    12 (C,C,C,C,C,C,C,8) MIN ( 6-19)
13   13 (D,D,D,D,D,D,D,B) DAL ( 2-23)


NBA Standings for Tue, Jan 12

                 record      GB    div     conf    home    road   points/game
 EAST
 *Chicago       23 10 0.697  --   10  3   17  7   13  4   10  6   103.5  96.2
 *New_York      19 12 0.613  3     8  3   15  8   14  3    5  9    96.9  92.4
  Cleveland     20 13 0.606  3     7  4   12  7   15  4    5  9   108.4 101.8
  Charlotte     17 14 0.548  5     3  5   10 10    8  7    9  7   111.4 110.7
  New_Jersey    18 15 0.545  5     6  7   11 10    8  7   10  8   104.8 104.6
  Detroit       16 16 0.500  6.5   6  7   14  9   10  6    6 10    97.8  98.7
  Boston        17 17 0.500  6.5   7  5   12 11   10  5    7 12   104.1 105.2
  Orlando       14 14 0.500  6.5   6  5   10  9   10  7    4  7   106.3 103.8
  Indiana       15 17 0.469  7.5   4  8   10 14    8  6    7 11   107.1 106.2
  Atlanta       14 17 0.452  8     5  8   10 15    6 10    8  7   103.4 106.9
  Milwaukee     14 18 0.438  8.5   5  5   10  9    9  7    5 11   101.8 104.3
  Philadelphia  11 18 0.379 10     5  5    9 12    5 10    6  8   107.6 111.9
  Miami         10 21 0.323 12     3  6    6 14    7  8    3 13    98.6 104.3
  Washington    10 22 0.312 12.5   3  7    6 17    7  8    3 14   103.5 110.8

 WEST
 *Phoenix       23  5 0.821  --    9  3   16  4   12  1   11  4   113.8 106.3
  Seattle       22  8 0.733  2     7  3   15  4   15  1    7  7   108.7 100.1
 *Utah          21 10 0.677  3.5   9  4   11  6   10  4   11  6   107.8 102.0
  Portland      20 10 0.667  4     5  5   12  7   13  4    7  6   108.7 104.4
  San_Antonio   18 13 0.581  6.5   8  5   13  9   11  4    7  9   106.8 101.9
  LA_Lakers     18 14 0.562  7     6  7   13  9    9  7    9  7   102.2 101.2
  Golden_State  18 14 0.562  7     4  7   12  8    8  6   10  8   113.9 112.2
  LA_Clippers   17 16 0.515  8.5   3  6    7 10   10  5    7 11   107.4 106.3
  Houston       15 16 0.484  9.5   9  3   11 12   10  6    5 10   100.3 101.6
  Sacramento    13 17 0.433 11     4  7    8  9   10  6    3 11   108.2 106.2
  Denver         8 22 0.267 16     4  5    7 15    7  7    1 15   103.2 111.5
  Minnesota      6 23 0.207 17.5   3  5    3 14    3 12    3 11    98.0 106.3
  Dallas         2 27 0.069 21.5   0 11    1 22    2 14    0 13    99.8 117.7

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