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PER Diem: May 12, 2009

By John Hollinger
ESPN.com

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

I've talked for much of the season about the renaissance in the Eastern Conference. In head-to-head play, the East had a better record than the West for the first time since the pilgrims landed, and three of the league's top four records belonged to Eastern Conference outfits. So it is a bit jarring to do my playoff rankings today and find that, with one exception, the East hasn't reached nearly the heights we'd thought. Nearly every Western team still alive was peaking heading into the posts ...

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