r/pacers • u/bozodidthedubb1 • 1d ago

Misleading Eastern conference ranking

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7655956/2026/10/15/nba-predictions-knicks-76ers-raptors-cavaliers/?unlocked_article_code=1.JFE.kZ75.72cq8CmACPrD&source=twitterhq

Sorry if this got posted already but just wow

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u/Disastrous-Special30 Tyrese Haliburton 1d ago

“Scroll…scroll…scroll….Damn he must have us number one….Oh”

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u/bozodidthedubb1 1d ago

Haha after LeBron at 7 you kinda know they aren’t gonna be on there, but still hard to believe

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u/droans 1d ago

Click on the Bottom 7 link. I'm serious.

Didn't The Athletic fire all their actual writers some time back?

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u/Lowfan_OReilly 14h ago

I read that garbage. One of his tissue-paper-thin arguments is that “This isn’t exactly an old team, but it is no longer young…”

In other words, it’s a young-enough team that’s now more experienced. That goes in the plus column for me.

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u/Interesting_Top_6427 1d ago

I swear I thought the same lol

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u/jmkiser33 1d ago

Yeah I didn’t see that coming

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u/SilverRain007 PAVE 1d ago

Holy... this is certainly... a take of all time...

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u/Tall_Category_304 1d ago

Pistons at number one? Lol

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u/bozodidthedubb1 1d ago

They are a strong regular season team, can’t argue with that, Indy used to have one in another sport for a long time…

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u/hicktown33 Jermaine O'Neal 1d ago

They were a strong regular season team one season so I guess that just makes them auto a solid regular season team? Cade better be ready to do literally everything on offense for that team the last 5 mins of basically every game.

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u/Drak_is_Right Reggie 1d ago

last year was a weak year for the East. I doubt they break 55. Maybe not 50.

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u/LNMagic 17h ago

Is there another basketball league I didn't hear about?

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u/invertedearth Pacers 1d ago

Just one more "expert" that I'll enjoy being smarter about basketball than.

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u/bozodidthedubb1 1d ago

I could even live with Boston and Detroit ahead of us because we never beat them in the playoffs recently, Toronto and Philly as maybe super teams, even the Knicks because they just won. But Cleveland, Atlanta, Orlando…wow

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u/death-by-yogurt Lance 1d ago

He argues the Knicks drop to 5th because they're a year older (what?) then puts the Celtics at 4th. What even is this list?

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u/anh86 Old School Pacers 1d ago

Not even in the top eight? lol!

The Knicks only won last year because the Pacers weren’t available.

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u/Giovanni_TR 1d ago

Hollinger hasn’t been relevant in 15 years

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u/pglive21 21h ago

Despite how wrong he is going to be, this isn't remotely true.

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u/chuck4024 1d ago

how are the garbage trash knicks even on this list?

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u/bozodidthedubb1 1d ago

I still can’t figure out what happened last year. The 23-24 pacers might have won the championship

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u/dasunshine Thad 1d ago

Besides us, I also can't see the heat missing the playoffs with Giannis