Nobody in the Southeast was over .500 last year. All 5 teams expect to be better this season

The Southeast Division set records last season. They weren’t good records.

Orlando won the division at 41-41. That means the other Southeast teams — Atlanta, Miami, Charlotte and Washington — were, obviously, under the .500 mark. Combined, the winning percentage of the five teams was .378.

Since the league began splitting up teams by both conferences and divisions in 1970, there’s never been a division with a worse combined record than the Southeast last year. (The Central Division in 1970-71 held the record for more than a half-century, after combining for a .384 winning percentage that season.)

The Southeast teams were outscored by a combined 1,824 points — another record. Washington alone was outscored by 909 points in games against teams from the other five divisions — also a record