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(The Cavalier is on an extended leave of absence. He did not write this because he’s trying to find the meaning of life.)

With six games remaining in the regular season the Chicago Bulls and Cleveland Cavaliers are battling for the ever important #2 seed in the Eastern Conference. Right now the difference between having the #2 seed and the #5 seed is playing a struggling #7 seed New Jersey or playing a resurgent #4 seed Miami Heat. Let’s take a quick look at who has the advantage the last couple weeks of the regular season…..

Chicago Bulls: NJ, @TOR, NY, CHA, @WAS, and @NJ -  As a Bulls fan I say…..nice! Pretty much every team they have left on the schedule has either quit (NJ, NY, CHA) or doesn’t have enough healthy players to put up much of a fight (WAS, TOR). Thus, the Bulls should go 6-0. Unfortunately, they will somehow lose at least two of these games and go 4-2. The Bulls are playing really well right now and seem to be building some momentum for the playoffs.

Cleveland Cavaliers - @WAS, @DET, NJ, ATL, @PHI, MIL - This would seem to be a fairly easy schedule if the Cavs weren’t playing like the Bobcats lately. If LeFranchise and his boys can turn it around quickly, then could go 5-1. It’s more likely that they go 3-3 though. The loss to the Celtics on Sunday and the Heat last night really hurt the Cavs chances for getting the #2 seed in the East.

By my precise calculations it looks like the Bulls will win that #2 seed and be blessed with an easier journey through the playoffs than the Cavs. I have at times been prone to use the Canadian metric system to calculate distances between two landmarks so I could be just a bit off. Momentum is very important in the NBA and right now the Bulls have it….and the Cavs don’t.