16 outta 30 make the playoffs every year.
More than half.
I doubt we will even be in the play in game for awhile.
Great. But that doesn’t dispel the point about the loaded West.
It has historically been much tougher to qualify the top 8 in the West.
In 07/08 it took 50 wins to earn the 8th seed. In 13/14, it took 49 wins. In 14/15 it took 45 wins.
Conversely it took 40, 38, 38 during the same seasons in the East.
HUGE difference.
Just looking at records as they were, the KINGS would have qualified for the postseason in the East in 07/08 and only would have missed by 2-3 games in each of of the past 4 seasons.
That of course is using their West loaded schedule. With an East loaded schedule, they probably make the playoffs in most if not all those seasons.
And we wouldn’t be talking about this 15 year nonsense.
Instead these bottom tier East teams are spared from the same embarrassment merely because of geography.