I still haven't done a deep dive on all the rosters but here's my sense of how the teams will stack up next season. My criteria is basically that I'd expect a higher ranked team to win a playoff series against a lower team.
Caveat: Lebron will be worth about three places higher
- Spurs
- Thunder
- Knicks
- Denver
- Boston
- Minnesota
- Pacers
- Heat
- Blazers
- Lakers
- Warriors
- 76ers
- Magic
- Cavs
- Pistons
- Hawks
- Raptors
- Rockets
- Jazz
- Mavs
- Suns
- Hornets
- Pelicans
- Grizzlies
- Kings
- Wizards
- Clippers
- Bucks
- Nets
- Bulls
NBA Power Rankings: Every team's best offseason addition so far
https://thescore.com/nba/news/3560717
Philly at 4th
That's fine. I have them jumping a few teams that were better than them last season.
Maxey
VJ
JB
LeBron
Embiid
can you imagine that?
I can indeed, which is why they were my guess as to where he's going.
You pick
76ers or paring with Curry?
I'd much rather see him with Steph. My favorite destinations are probably Indiana and Denver right now.
Indi I can't see it
Nuggets the highest IQ basketball ever? This would be something
You can't see the best transition player of all time joining the best transition team in the league?
Terrible.
@Undisciplined got the top 3 right
@grayruby got the rest
Except the 76ers y'all ain't ready for JB revenge season
Team could be really good but Embiid could also miss 60 games.
Andre Drummond for the regular season is good enough
Maxey
VJ
JB
The Ball pressure and drive of the trio can carry them for a top 3 seed in the East
Bad news on that front...
On paper. Let's see how it looks on the court.
We have the same top 6
Ordered differently
Knicks is trailing west foes, New York campaign was "One of the greatest all time" out of the playoffs i could easily see them ending with 4th seed in the East
What about the Rockets or Cavs is impressing you?
Consistency bias. Every year I overrate them thinking this will be the year and every year I am sorely mistaken. Why mess with a good thing?
They are certainly better than the Magic and Warriors (unless the Warriors get AD and Lebron)
I trust the Warriors to not implode more than I trust the Rockets or Cavs to do the same.
Hard to implode when you are destined for mediocrity.
You must be forgetting how great they looked before Jimmy got hurt
I remember looking like a fool after putting them way too high in the first power rankings during the season.
I don’t think I’ll feel too bad about rating them slightly below the median
🥰 But not a fan of Pacers being so high!
Pacers 7????? come on UN!!
Higher? Since they're the last team to beat the might Knicks in the playoffs.
They lost Turner! Burton looks fat. Who is their PG? TJ?!?
Turner sucked in the playoffs and as for their PG...
Hmmm in May this picture may have pissed me off but now I smile because we are champs and Hail needs to worry about his ankle holding up.
Turner was still a solid big took pressure off Spicy P and can shoot a bit. The Pacers were DOGSHIT last season and now you expect them to be a top ten team in the NBA?!!
Hali coming back isn’t the same as when Steph and Klay came back after a bad Warriors season.
Ahahhaahahhahaha
Zubac is better than Turner, although it remains to be seen if he's as good of a scheme fit.
Man how u gonna disrespect the Knicks liek that
They were the best and got a little worse. The Spurs and Thunder are probably still getting better.