If Robinson plays less than 2000 minutes and DSJ plays more than 1000 then lots of things are wrong with the team and Fiz has screwed it up bad so I’m guessing 26 wins if that is the case.

This is not a small range, but it is still smaller than the predictions of the New York Times, where two sportswriters thought we would make the playoffs and one thought we would have the worst record in the league.

26 wins, with Fizdale shitcanned by the break

in terms of who’s going to win.. i’m not even gonna try…. this is one of the most fascinating title races since i can’t even remember…

i do really like denver… and they are a legit title contender in my eyes… although they probably don’t have the best playoff team… i think they’re likely to end up with the best regular season…. they are young.. deep and they are very good at every position…. the rest of the west is about who is the most healthy and i’m pretty sure there’s gonna be more trades to impact the hierarchy…

i like the sixers if they didn’t sign horford and just got anyone else.. it’s a very interesting team regardless and i’m rooting for them to pummel everyone inside… i also like the bucks although it’s very giannis centric but he’s surrounded by capable role players… that generally hasn’t been enough… but might be this year…

this is a good year to watch the nba….

If I were the coach, I would read him the riot act and take him out of a game immediately if he passed up sharing the ball. There are some players that need tough love. I hope he gets with the plan because he can be terrific if he worked on that aspect of the game. And all he needs to do is look at Melo’s situation now and what got him there. This might explain it

I agree, I think the Sixers match up well enough against the Bucks to maybe have an advantage, and it took a crazy buzzer beater by Kawhi in a game 7 to eliminate them. One different bounce happens and they might have been in the finals last season.

I think the Bucks will have the best record in the regular season, but if I had to bet on the eastern conference champions, I would bet on the Sixers.

In the west I genuinely have no idea, and I will bet that the western finalist gets decided by whichever team is healthier by the playoffs, between the Clippers, Lakers and Rockets. I still think the Warriors are going to be very dangerous and I wouldn’t be super surprised if the Nuggets or Jazz figure it out and get there with some improvement from their young players. I think the Clippers are the better team, not taking injuries into consideration, but there’s no way to ignore possible injuries when their core is Kawhi + Paul George.

Also, the Siakam max extension is now official.

Boston Celtics forward Jaylen Brown has agreed to a four-year, $115M million contract extension, agent Jason Glushon tells ESPN.

That’s a lot of money.

I loved the Bucks last year until Kawhi decided he was going to own Giannis. If I had to place a bet today, I’d take them.

They definitely seem like the likeliest team to be there at the end. They’re arguably the only contender that hasn’t undergone a major facelift relative to last year (depending I guess on whether you consider the Paul/Westbrook flip to be a major change for the Rockets, and whether you consider the Nuggets a true title contender). Multiply that by the Eastern Conference factor and they’ve probably got like at least 75%+ odds to be in the conference finals. That’s an awfully nice baseline.

My hesitancy with them is two-fold. One, as someone who almost never puts much weight on “Player X can’t get it done when it counts” narratives, I legitimately worry about Bledsoe. He has really melted down both of the last two years, and I don’t think they have quite enough talent without him playing at his normal levels, even moreso without Brogdon. Second, I think the Sixers are potentially a uniquely awful matchup for them, and against the Eastern Conference factor means they’re extremely likely to have to beat them in the playoffs. They just have so much size to wall off Giannis.