Would Detroit have home-court advantage over the Lakers?

[Dtown84]

You can pretty much ignore both regular season games because of injuries and trades. So there's no point in bringing either up.

[Chubby Chaser]

Detroit:
2-0 against the Spurs this year
1-1 against the Lakers this year*

*the loss to the Lakers happened when Antonio McDyess and Chauncey Billups were injured and the Pistons started Flip Murray as their starting PG. Lakers were full strength (before the Gasol trade).

If we're going to knit pick. The Detroit win against the lakers happened during the transition period after the Pau trade. Where both players weren't playing with their new respective teams yet. We had turiaf starting, but didn't have Bynum (due to injury) no kwame, no Pau, no Ariza. And if I remember correctly, we lost by 1 or 2 points IN DETROIT against a healthy team.

[daddyfivestar]

Way more abyssmal teams in the West? You mean in contrast to those juggernauts like the Knicks, Heat, and Cats.

[Ortho Stice]

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Detroit vs. LA Finals is actually coming true...kinda. Finally, I picked a bracket correctly.

Detroit in 7.

Well you're half right, at least

[farzi]

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looks like your outta luck not only for this season but the next 4-5

Entirely possible, but Boston, Detroit, Chicago, Portland, Houston, Utah, NO, Orlando, and others might have something to say about that.

[Celtsfan1980]

Detroit would. Lakers should due to vastly superior conference.

Do the same rules apply when the East was superior in the 1980's?

[Truthiracy]

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Detroit vs. LA Finals is actually coming true

Really?

[Hypz]

Celtics will have homecourt

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You mean Detroit right?

[Pancho_Pantera]

Wow, I didn't know there were two teams that had better records than the top team in the west.

Inb4theyplayintheeast.

[99 Problems]

Lakers are beating Boston regardless anyway...