2nd in the Titanic..er Atlantic Divison, whos it gonna be?

[5DOM]

WHO CARES!!!!

None of these teams will win the championship so WHO CARES! The goal is to win it all not be 2nd in the Atlantic LOL.

Ok now go ahead with the corny ass jokes about the Knicks but at least they have a plan and their goal is to build the team for a run starting 2010.

Enjoy mediocrity!

we have young guys like chris bosh and bargnani (hopefully he bounces back)
philly has iggy, young, williams etc.

both of these teams are gonna be fine even past 2010

[I_Like_Dirt]

Conversely, Toronto is really depended on O'Neal's health. So it depends how those factors are weighted during the season. If Young pans out, the Sixers are imo a lock for the second seed. If Jermaine O'Neal can continue to his strongest seasons in Indiana, they will likely clinch the second seed.

My preliminary predictions: Sixers go for 51 wins, the Raptors for 49 wins

I don't know where either team finishes but I think you need to add the fact that Philly is even more dependent on Brand's health than Bosh is on O'Neal's. If both guys are healthy for the majority of the season and regain roughly the form they consistently produced at during their careers it should be an extremely close race that I would expect the Raptors to come out slightly ahead in, but I certainly wouldn't fault anybody for picking the Sixers, either. If Both Brand and O'Neal go down then I think the Raptors win more games. If O'Neal goes down and Brand stays healthy and returns to the form of his anomaly 05/06 season (which is a tacit prediction I see from a lot of people on lots of different boards) then the Sixers should run away from the Raptors in the standings.