We’ve been away for awhile which, based on the small amount of engagement on the Week 12 thread left on the homepage for weeks, isn’t all that big of a deal. Since that post went up, the three biggest changes in the Eastern Conference were as follows: The Boston Celtics have started to open up a chunk of space between themselves in the one seed and everyone else in the conference, the Philadelphia 76ers have kept winning, and the Brooklyn Nets have cooled off a bit.
As such, we’re seeing a segmentation of the East into the top squad (Boston), the contenders (us, Philly, Brooklyn, and Cleveland), and the play-in-ers (Miami, Knicks, Atlanta, Indiana, Chicago, Washington, and Toronto).