East
1. Chicago
2. Washington
3. Milwakee
4. Charlotte
5. New York
6. Orlando
7. Toronto
8. New Jersey
You might be like the only guy that thinks the Atlantic deserves three teams in the top 9 in the East, I'm assuming you would have had Miami in the playoffs somewhere.
Do you want to explain that?
I also think there will be 2 Atlantic teams in the top 9. I'll explain it if you like.
1) I think this is going to be the year Oden lasts more than 50 games. He'll still miss some games here or there (
tendinitis from playing beer pong?) and he'll be maybe the most dominant big in the conference at times.
2) I can't in good faith keep out a team that has Ray Allen, Paul Pierce, and David Lee from the top 10 in the conference, not with Jameer Nelson manning the point. They're going to be weak at the 5, even when Perkins comes back (probably not at full strength at all next season), but I still like them for the playoff bubble.