Kiddless and not Kidding

Personally, I hate the National Basketball Association. But today I am forced to comment about it before I stay up to midnight watching Duke and North Carolina battle it out in Durham. Although I am against the NBA, I still will watch it. When I'm just flipping around and the Nets are playing, I'll turn it on. The thing that's a little annoying is how the New Jersey Nets are holding on to an eighth seed, which in about two months gets you a playoff spot. Although they're my team, it's a little disturbing and insulting to the Eastern Conference to see them with a 26-36 record, a .419 winning percentage. The first team in the Western Conference standings, the Sacramento Kings, are 11 1/2 games out of the eighth seed. Even the ninth seed, Denver Nuggets, have a .607 winning percentage The Nets are slightly more respectable than the Knicks (Fire Isiah!). Now with the loss of their franchise, best, and most respectable player, Jason Kidd (How could you Jason?), the Nets don't stand a chance. Yet they still manage to make sure that they lose at a lower rate than the Atlanta Hawks, Chicago Bulls, and Indiana Pacers. This just shows how weak the Eastern Conference is; it needs to get better or else people aren't going to show up. Plus moving the New Jersey Nets to Brooklyn isn't going to improve attendance for them.