NBA 2019-20: Hoopingest place on earth

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Nah, the NBA would never cheat about anything. They never fix things towards a particular player's outcome. Never happens.


POR's 8 games:

The winning percentage among Portland’s eight opponents is 60.0%.
The Blazers play three Top 3 seeds among the conferences (Celtics, Clippers, and Nuggets), but neither of the #1 teams (because they are both likely to rest their starters during the 8 games).
They play no teams outside of the Top 8, thus no teams with a worse record than they.


NOP's 8 games:

Combined Winning Percentage: 49.5%, with four teams the same or worse than they on the schedule. Throw in their game in UTA, without which the percentage would be much worse, and minus Bogdanovic and a team with internal strife, and that's basically another bad team.
[ed. How can you assemble a field of teams either making or close to making the playoffs but still give a team a schedule against opponents with a net losing record?]


POR's 8 games:

MEM
BOS
HOU
DEN
LAC
PHI
DAL
BKN (BKN should rest their starters for this one with nothing to play for.)



NOP's 8 games:

UTA (the most troubled team in the league emotionally and no Bogdanovich)
LAC
MEM
SAC
WAS (will be eliminated by the time they meet)
SAS (no Aldridge)
SAC (will be eliminated by the time they meet)
ORL (will have nothing to play for by this game and rest their starters)


So, not only did POR have the league's toughest schedule before the break, but they get handed the toughest schedule of the teams trying to qualify for the 9th spot in the playoffs.

Isn't this just the schedule they told us they were go with the whole time and that you dismissed out of hand? Everybody plays the teams that were left on their schedule. The Pelicans had played the strongest schedule in the league prior to the stoppage and had the softest remaining schedule (http://powerrankingsguru.com/nba/str...f-schedule.php). So they're just getting what was coming their way if the season hadn't stopped, up against the teams they were supposed to play. Same with the Blazers.