Archive NBA Magic Numbers

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Sonofanump

Mar 10, 2010 9:58am

With 10 games left, here is the magic numbers left to clinch homecourt.

Cavs +7 conference 3
Lakers +6 conference 5
Cavs +3.5 league 8

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Sonofanump

Mar 15, 2010 4:35pm

Updated.

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golf4life2008

Posts: 113

Mar 15, 2010 4:54pm

Wow... conference is about locked up with the Cavs remaining schedule. The only tough games I see left are:

3/24 @ New Orleans
3/26 @ San Antonio
4/2 Atlanta
4/4 @ Boston
4/6 Toronto
4/11 Orlando
4/14 @ Atlanta

Out of those 7 games, I see maybe 1 or 2 losses maybe to Boston and Orlando. The Cavs are deep and should be able to beat the rest of the teams and win the League! Let's go Cavs!!

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Nate

Posts: 3,949

Mar 15, 2010 5:03pm

IMO I think they'd lose one to Atlanta before we lose to Boston.

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Sonofanump

Mar 20, 2010 11:18am

Updated.

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mtrulz

Posts: 2,905

Mar 20, 2010 1:55pm

Nets' magic number is 3.

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Sonofanump

Mar 25, 2010 7:58pm

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Cleveland Buck

Posts: 5,126

Mar 25, 2010 8:00pm

The magic number to win the conference is 4. They don't own the tiebreaker over the Magic.

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Footwedge

Posts: 9,265

Mar 26, 2010 2:04am

Cleveland Buck wrote: The magic number to win the conference is 4. They don't own the tiebreaker over the Magic.

So if the Cavs lose to the Magic, is it a given that Orlando wins the tie breaker? Or is that an issue too soon to predict?

I don't think this will come into play, but just asking out of curiosity.

Cleveland Buck

Posts: 5,126

Mar 28, 2010 3:07pm

Footwedge wrote:
Cleveland Buck wrote: The magic number to win the conference is 4. They don't own the tiebreaker over the Magic.
So if the Cavs lose to the Magic, is it a given that Orlando wins the tie breaker? Or is that an issue too soon to predict?

I don't think this will come into play, but just asking out of curiosity.

If the Cavs lose to their last game to the Magic, the next tiebreaker would be conference record. The Cavs are 35-9 vs. the East, the Magic are 34-13. The Cavs would probably have it, but it isn't clinched yet.

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devil1197

Posts: 6,220

Mar 28, 2010 3:09pm

Cleveland will have to collapse to lose the #1 seed in the EC.

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Sonofanump

Mar 28, 2010 10:21pm

With 8 games left up by 6 & 3.5.

hoops23

Posts: 15,696

Mar 28, 2010 10:22pm

The East is clinched. It's just not official.

the only thing that isn't clinched is home court throughout.. Which is pretty close as well.

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Footwedge

Posts: 9,265

Mar 28, 2010 10:32pm

Cleveland Buck wrote:
Footwedge wrote:
Cleveland Buck wrote: The magic number to win the conference is 4. They don't own the tiebreaker over the Magic.
So if the Cavs lose to the Magic, is it a given that Orlando wins the tie breaker? Or is that an issue too soon to predict?

I don't think this will come into play, but just asking out of curiosity.
If the Cavs lose to their last game to the Magic, the next tiebreaker would be conference record. The Cavs are 35-9 vs. the East, the Magic are 34-13. The Cavs would probably have it, but it isn't clinched yet.

Thanks for sharing. If the unthinkable were to happen, and the Magic were to beat us next month and tie us for the best record, it stands to reason that they would probably win the conference tie breaker. In other words, the Cavs would have to lose a boatload of conference games, whereby the Magic would have to virtually win them all.

We all know....isn't gonna happen.

hoops23

Posts: 15,696

Mar 28, 2010 10:44pm

The Magic lost Vince Carter today in the first quarter with an apparent foot injury, he didn't return and I don't know how serious it was.

Sage

Posts: 2,070

Mar 28, 2010 11:25pm

JJ Reddick then got in the ass of the Denver Nuggets.

It was hilarious.

Hb31187

Posts: 8,534

Mar 29, 2010 10:53am

23 pts haha, he sure showed us