From: matthew@base.cs.ucla.edu (Matthew Merzbacher)
Subject: If the playoffs were held today (12/22)
Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department
Date: 22 Dec 92 17:27:14 GMT

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

Here's the weekly posting of "If the playoffs were today".


HEADLINE:
  Chicago NOT in first place since 11/12/90 (!)  
  Knicks take over East lead on tie-breaker.

Full standings at end of post

No standings next week (I'll be out-of-town for the holidays).
Look for ItPWT in two weeks.



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

T1 (2,2,4,4,2) NYK (16- 7) -+         Lead Division
                            |-+
8. (5,6,5,5,B) CHA (12-11) -+ |
                              |-+
T5 (3,4,6,B,5) NJN (13-11) -+ | |
                            |-+ |
4. (8,5,2,2,4) ORL (11- 9) -+   |
                                |--
3. (9,7,9,7,7) CLE (14-11) -+   |
                            |-+ |
T5 (4,8,7,6,6) IND (13-11) -+ | |
                              |-+
7. (B,C,E,D,A) DET (11-10) -+ |
                            |-+
T1 (1,1,1,1,1) CHI (16- 7) -+         Lead Division

Games Behind (sorted by percentage)

GB  Pos Prior Pos.  Team
1    9  (6,9,8,8,9) ATL (11-12)
2   T10 (7,3,3,3,3) MIL (10-13)
2   T10 (A,A,A,E,8) BOS (10-13)
4.5  12 (D,E,D,A,D) PHI ( 7-15)
5.5  13 (C,B,C,9,E) WAS ( 7-17)
5.5  14 (E,D,B,C,C) MIA ( 6-16)


WESTERN CONFERENCE

1. (1,4,4,5,4) PHO (16- 4) -+         Lead Division
                            |-+
8. (9,B,B,9,A) GOL (11-12) -+ |
                              |-+
5. (5,7,2,2,7) HOU (13- 7) -+ | |
                            |-+ |
T3 (3,1,1,1,1) POR (15- 7) -+   |
                                |--
T3 (6,3,3,3,3) SEA (15- 7) -+   |
                            |-+ |
6. (4,6,5,6,6) LAL (14- 8) -+ | |
                              |-+
7. (7,5,7,7,9) LAC (13-10) -+ |
                            |-+
2. (2,2,6,4,2) UTA (14- 7) -+         Lead Division

Games Behind (sorted by percentage)

GB  Pos Prior Pos.  Team
0     9 (8,A,8,A,D) SAN (10-11)
3    10 (A,8,9,B,C) DEN ( 7-14)
4.5  11 (B,9,A,8,5) SAC ( 6-16)
4.5  12 (C,C,C,C,8) MIN ( 5-15)
7    13 (D,D,D,D,B) DAL ( 2-17)


NBA Standings for Tue, Dec 22

                 record      GB    div     conf    home    road   points/game
 EAST
 *New_York      16  7 0.696  --    8  1   12  4   12  1    4  6    98.0  91.6
 *Chicago       16  7 0.696  --    6  2   10  5    9  3    7  4   104.4  99.9
  Cleveland     14 11 0.560  3     3  4    8  5   10  3    4  8   108.1 103.1
  Orlando       11  9 0.550  3.5   5  3    8  5    7  3    4  6   109.7 105.7
  New_Jersey    13 11 0.542  3.5   4  4    7  6    6  6    7  5   103.2 104.4
  Indiana       13 11 0.542  3.5   4  5    9  8    7  4    6  7   110.3 107.9
  Detroit       11 10 0.524  4     6  4   11  5    7  3    4  7    97.7  97.9
  Charlotte     12 11 0.522  4     1  4    7  7    5  5    7  6   110.6 111.6
  Atlanta       11 12 0.478  5     3  5    8 10    6  6    5  6   104.0 107.4
  Milwaukee     10 13 0.435  6     4  3    8  6    6  4    4  9   102.0 104.7
  Boston        10 13 0.435  6     4  5    7 11    6  5    4  8   105.4 106.2
  Philadelphia   7 15 0.318  8.5   3  5    6 12    3 10    4  5   106.0 110.5
  Washington     7 17 0.292  9.5   2  5    3 12    5  6    2 11   104.5 112.0
  Miami          6 16 0.273  9.5   2  5    4 12    4  6    2 10   103.0 106.4

 WEST
 *Phoenix       16  4 0.800  --    7  3    9  3    8  1    8  3   113.2 107.2
  Seattle       15  7 0.682  2     4  2    9  3   12  1    3  6   110.1 101.4
  Portland      15  7 0.682  2     5  4    8  4   10  2    5  5   109.7 105.0
 *Utah          14  7 0.667  2.5   6  2    7  4    6  4    8  3   108.2 104.0
  Houston       13  7 0.650  3     7  2    9  5    8  3    5  4   101.5  98.3
  LA_Lakers     14  8 0.636  3     5  6   11  7    8  4    6  4   106.5 103.7
  LA_Clippers   13 10 0.565  4.5   3  6    6  9    8  3    5  7   109.0 106.4
  Golden_State  11 12 0.478  6.5   4  5    7  6    5  6    6  6   114.6 115.0
  San_Antonio   10 11 0.476  6.5   5  4    6  7    7  3    3  8   107.0 102.7
  Denver         7 14 0.333  9.5   3  2    6  7    6  4    1 10   105.2 112.2
  Sacramento     6 16 0.273 11     4  6    5  8    5  6    1 10   104.9 109.9
  Minnesota      5 15 0.250 11     2  4    2 10    2  7    3  8    99.3 107.0
  Dallas         2 17 0.105 13.5   0  9    1 13    2  9    0  8   102.4 118.6
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