Let the Conference Finals Begin!

[TrailDucker]

The Conference finals are among us!

The Western Conference Final is:
The Utah Jazz vs. The Las Vegas Love

Utah was the 5th team and Las Vegas as the 6th team in West at the end of the regular season in a closely bunch Western conference as only 4 games separated the 1st and 8th place teams.

Utah defeated #4 Golden State Warriors and the #8 Oakland Oaks (who pulled off the upset the week before over the #1 Sacramento Kings) to get to the Conference Finals

Meanhile Las Vegas pulled off defeats against the #3 New Orleans and the #2 Denver Nuggets to get to this Conference Final.



The Eastern Conference Final is:
The Atlanta Hawks vs. The Amsterdam Nightmare

Atlanta was the 4th Team in the final standings (But 2nd based on record), because of Orlando winning the tie breaker for the Southeast Division. Amsterdam finished 2nd as the International Division winner. The East wasn't as close of a race as the West as Orlando, Amsterdam and Atlanta were the obvious top three teams in the Division.

Atlanta won two hard fought match ups vs. the #5 Miami Heat and #1 Orlando Magic both 5-4 to get to the Conference finals.

Amsterdam beat the #7 Strasbourg SuperStorks (who many had as the top championship contender entering the season) and the #3 Philadelphia 76er's to get to the conference finals.



So as we all know anything can happen in these match-ups so let's have a fun week in the Conference Finals! Congratulations to everyone on the hard fought season. I hope we have many more productive ones to come!!!

Feel free to all offer your Comments, Congrats, Condolences, and/or smack talk in this thread

[Munich Barons GM]

Congrats to all 4 teams, which made it that far. But it's sad that Sacramento didn't set his line-up during the playoffs (kobe and durant on the bench the whole playoffs) ... cause he would have been my number 1 choise for the titel if active ...

[Oakland Oaks]

Mar 28, 2011 20:29:00 GMT -5 Munich Barons GM said:

Congrats to all 4 teams, which made it that far. But it's sad that Sacramento didn't set his line-up during the playoffs (kobe and durant on the bench the whole playoffs) ... cause he would have been my number 1 choise for the titel if active ...

Yeah... Not gonna lie here - i had no business "upsetting" the number 1 seed out West. It's especially ridiculous because he must have been setting his rosters to get the best record out West only to give up when it finally matters most. Meh. You get what you put in to these things though and somebody named "survivor series" on ESPN should have known better. In any case i'm glad to see the active teams with the best rosters win this thing...

I got Jazz v Nightmare. Make it happen.

[TrailDucker]

Ouch Oaks

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Thanks Oaks, I have something to make up for, as you will no doubtly know Klove better return to where he left off. I need him in another league in a tough finals too. That dude has one heck of a timing.

BTW, how will we manage the finals?

[TrailDucker]

They champs from each conference will play eachother and the stats will just be calculated offline. It'll take some work, but I'm planning on making a spreadsheet and posting daily updates.

From Mighty

[Mighty Mouse]

Yep, what Trail Ducker said I said.

Good luck conference finalists!!!

[TrailDucker]

It looks like Las Vegas vs Atlanta final!

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Yeah good luck guys, I could have had a better week with Love and Humphries missing games, and missing McRoberts 15/13 game, but Atlanta got a deserved win.