A funny thing happened on the way to – no longer the Fabulous Forum – the Staples Center. While LeBron James and a trio of elite contemporaries have migrated West in recent NBA times, the Association’s balance of power (particularly among its elite squads) has been evening out geographically … at least half of the Top Ten in each of my periodic (every three weeks) calculations has come from the Eastern Conference. [Only four East teams landed in the Top Ten for 2018-19.]
Through the games of Wednesday Jan. 15, 84 of this year’s 168 “playing dates” and 313 of its 1,230 scheduled Basketball Battles have been fought – about as “Mid-point” as a season can get … and for the third time in four tours through my simple counting machine, the Boston Celtic Algebra has graded out at the top of the class.