Eastern Conference: Atlantic Divison

Revisiting the Eastern standings by division. None are sure bets.

Estimated rank, (last year) - comments

1. (2) Miami - Loss of Butler and Odom non-trivial. + Added Shaq & kept Wade.
2. (4) Boston - Bizzare GM. + C & PF positions strong. Payton's scoring helps Pierce.
   
3. (3) New York - Mix'n'match players. Crawford FG &<40%. + Deep team good at PF.
   
4. (5) Philadelphia - Older team, no Snow & Iverson at PG. + Iverson at PG has the ball
   
5. (6) Washington - Jamison, Arenas and Hughes Do not defend. Good scoring
   
6. (1) New Jersey - Problems with Kidd. Loss of KMartin huge. + Jefferson and Kidd
   
7. (7) Orlando - Too young and rebuilding. +Francis replaces unmotivated T.Mac.