Eastern Conference

How much faith does Austin Rivers have in his Washington Wizards? A bunch. Speaking with CBS Sports’ James Herbert, the 26-year-old combo-guard, who arrived via a trade with the Los Angeles Clippers, said that he thinks people are severely underrating the Wizards in the Eastern Conference race: “I think we’re heavily slept-on,” he tells me. [...]

LeBron James has plenty of respect for the Toronto Raptors. And how could he not? They have a chokehold on the Eastern Conference’s No. 1 seed—and that includes an 11-game lead in the win column over his Cleveland Cavaliers. Though the reigning Eastern Conference champs have bounced the Raptors from the playoffs in each of [...]

Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr is so impressed with the Boston Celtics thus far that he might be prepping his team to face them in the NBA Finals this June. Okay, fine. Probably not. Even he has to be feeling that the Cleveland Cavaliers’ struggles, on some level, will work themselves out. They’re [...]

Count Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban among those who want the NBA to eliminate the existence of conferences. Though, to be fair, it sounds like he’d settle for his Mavericks moving into the East. As he told ESPN’s broadcast during Dallas’ summer league bout with the Phoenix Suns on Sunday, per ESPN.com’s Tim MacMahon: “We’re [...]

First place in the Eastern Conference will be on the line Wednesday night when the Cleveland Cavaliers travel to meet the Boston Celtics. And LeBron James couldn’t care less. Okay, I jest. Kind of. He’s definitely not as interested in the outcome as you or me. Shortly after the Cavaliers lit up the Magic on [...]

2017 has been very good to the Washington Wizards. The Wiz have been 30-12 since the new year began, and have undergone a complete transformation from being a huge disappointment rife with chemistry issues that started 2-8, to a 46-28 division-winner and possible No. 1 seed in the eastern conference. [tweet https://twitter.com/WashWizards/status/846947487910957057] Pretty incredible this [...]

With the Cavaliers most recent drubbing in San Antonio Monday night, losing 103-74, they are now in 2nd place in the eastern conference. This is the first time they haven’t been at the top of the eastern conference since November 8th, 2015. [tweet https://twitter.com/CelticsJunkies/status/846551852921602049] The Celtics are currently in 1st place, a half game ahead [...]

Myles Turner has some lofty hopes for the Indiana Pacers. Unreachable ones, if you ask me. From Basketball Insiders’ Michael Scotto: “I think we can be a top-four seed in the East,” Turner told Basketball Insiders. “We can challenge Cleveland and I think we can make a big push to be in the Eastern Conference [...]

The 2015-16 NBA season will mark the first or second time since the late 90s that the eastern conference has been deeper than the western conference on the whole. There are years where a western conference team that was 10 or more games over .500 and yet still didn’t make the playoffs such as the [...]

The Cavaliers are always going to be the subject of much scrutiny whether legitimate or manufactured as long as LeBron James is in town. With a dominating win over an upper echelon team like Oklahoma City, chatter is that the big three in Cleveland is finally gelling and could be a serious championship contender. But [...]