The Eastern conference in the NBA has been a conference that has a few elite teams and a lot of underachievers. This has been a trend in the East ever since Michael Jordan retired from the Chicago Bulls.

Back in the day the Detroit Pistons, Chicago Bulls, New York Knicks and Miami Heat were the cream of the crop and now only the Heat and Bulls look to have a promising future.

In tonight's match up of the Milwaukee Bucks and the Philadephia 76ers we will see the two of those Eastern underachievers go head to head.

Although it is possible that both of these teams make the playoffs this season, neither team would I consider to be a good team.

Anyway, the spread tonight is -7.5 in favor of Philly. The 76ers will not cover this spread. The Bucks are coming off a loss with the Lakers who are arguably the best team in the league and they only lost by five points. That is enough to tell me that this game will be closer than the spread suggests.