Re: [Celtics' Stuff ] Ainge Is Facing A Nightmarish Scenario

["Dan Forant" <dforant1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's wonderful, now can you tell us how these losers made out??

DanF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Snoopy the Celtics Beagle"


> At 09:22 AM 3/2/2004, W/H wrote:
>
> >First of all, no sub-.500 team should ever be in the playoffs. It's a
> >sport's
> >disgrace.
>
> Really?  I listed the teams from 1946-1989 (including the ABA) that made
> the playoffs with losing records--the whole list is at the end of the post
> for anyone interested.  Basically, there were only SIX seasons in which
> every playoff team had a winning record.  The time frame encompasses just
> about every playoff format ever used short of picking teams at random.  It
> includes times when there were a handful of teams and more recent times
> with over-expansion.  annoying, perhaps, but hardly a disgrace.