The Eastern Conference is clarified

And that would be worse fighting in the East than in the West. At first they were 6 teams for a square, then fell to 4 and in a week everything has been more or less seen for sentencing.

Atlanta Hawks will, unless catastrophe, who accompanied the first 7 classified the East to fight for the title. The carnage would be Indiana Pacers will advance 3 games in 8 remaining disputed, which seems highly probable, seeing that Atlanta has won 4 games in a row and Joe Johnson, their best player, this strip and it has been named player of the month in the East (in the West was Chris Paul).

New Jersey Nets have given up and stopped fighting for qualification. Not because they want, that's clear, but are in full free fall and may now and the end of the season not even keep this tenth now hold. This morning fell to Philadelphia.

Thus, the Eastern Conference seems to be defined in the absence of about three weeks to begin the playoffs. Defined the classifieds, of course, for Washington, Toronto and Philadelphia are scrambling to reach fifth place (they are tied to victory over Philadelphia has one loss).

Will it send the bell Atlanta and home to the Celtics? Improbabilísimo. But to dream that it is not.

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