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My preseason rankings: 1) Golden State: Well, they are the defending champions and they are my team, so I'll put them first. I think getting rid of Lee is addition by subtraction. 2) Cleveland: They have Lebron and they play in the East so they are 9/10ths of the way there. 3) San Antonio: The old guys are one year older, but they got Aldridge, and of course, they still have GINOOOOOOBILIIIII, so watch out. 4) Oklahoma City: Durant, Westbrook, Ibaka and good health make you a contender. 5) Los Angeles Clippers: Got DeAndre to change his mind, got depth with Pierce and Stephenson and got Argentine with Prigioni. If they don't implode they'll go far. 6) Houston: Lawson next to Harden potentially makes them formidable, but the West is tough. 7) Memphis: I don't think they should be this low, but who do I move down? 8) Atlanta: Adding Tiago Splitter has to help, but can they realistically be that unbelievable team they were midway through last season? 9) New Orleans: It's Unibrow vs the Western Conference. 10) Chicago: Good team, but can Rose ever be Rose again? 11) Milwaukee: Plenty of guys who are almost there. I have a gut feeling they are going to explode this season. 12) Miami: Dragic will help, but still too much depends on Wade. 13) Toronto: Several teams can make a case for 6th in the East, but I like the Lowry/DeRozan combo plus I'm high on teams that have Argentines, and they got Scola. 14) Washington: Maybe the best backcourt outside the Bay Area, but who's going to rebound? 15) Boston: Now it starts to get ugly, but I still have two playoff teams to go, and the Celtics have their history so here they are. 16) Detroit: Is Drummond good enough to get Detroit into the playoffs? Not sure, even in the East. 17) Utah: The West sure drops off a lot this year after number seven. Gubert, Hayward, Favors and some scrubbs just might get you into the playoffs. 18) Dallas: Dirk alone might be good enough to get Dallas past Utah into the playoffs, but he's getting old so probably not. 19) Indiana: They have only three legitimate NBA starters and one of them is Monta. Not good. 20) Sacramento: They are still a joke, but what if Cousins comes to play? 21) Minnesota: Wiggins couldn't even get Canada into the Olympics, but to be fair he didn't have Rubio pushing him. 22) Orlando: They seem to have a bunch of decent players, but if Oladipo and Vucevic are the best you got... 23) Charlotte: Lets see.. Jefferson, Batum, Kidd-Gilchrist, Kemba Walker... Maybe I should put them above Orlando. Or maybe not. 24) Phoenix: Eric Bledsoe is good, but not that good. It's going to be a long season. 25) Portland: Lillard is very good, but life's not been fair to him this year. 26) New York: Melo and Lopez. Who else is a starter? I think now we're hitting the bottom of the barrel. 27) Los Angeles Lakers: Kobe and a couple of hotshot rookies. What could possibly go wrong? 28) Brooklyn: Same situation as New York, but without Melo. 29) Denver: They've become the Bolivia of the NBA. Maybe they can hope the altitude will help them win a few. 30) Philadelphia: Who else could be last but the eternal tank?
Rose should just stop giving interviews. I think Cleveland (especially) and Miami are a given for the ECF. The only way I don't see Miami there is if they aren't healthy, and for a team with Bosh, Deng, Wade and Dragic that would be a championship in itself. The West is so unpredictable. The GSW had one of the best regular season records and won a chip, OKC when healthy has always been among the top 2 teams in the West, Spurs brought in LA and West and the Clippers added a bench and just don't forget about Memphis. I can see Houston fall dramatically though. Harden has been a regular on TMZ this summer and I wonder how that affects your game. Judging by what has happened to Odom and Humpries, it doesn't look good. Also not feeling Lawson. On paper a great fit, though his character is questionable to say the least. With that talent they still make the playoffs though. Pelicans are surely making the playoffs this year, but likely won't go higher than 7th, maybe 6th. That could however bold well with AD's MVP chances this year. The last team featuring the playoffs are going to be the Jazz. Not because they're that good, but merely because everyone else in the West flat out sucks. I could argue for the Kings, but judging on how that team is ran, they'll likely implode mid-decembre.
Miami does not have that one star player. I think top 2 is Chicago and Cleveland with Cleveland kicking Chicago's ass in the ECF
Bosh? He's still arguably the best PF in the East. He was putting up 20+ ppg IIRC, before going down. I guess you could call it a toss up between Miami and the Bulls. The team that stays the healthier, reaches the ECF. Or to be more exact, the one that avoids Cleveland the longest.
Wizards 14th? Lmao, behind Toronto, Bucks, Pelicans? Teams we beat comfortably last season. Yeah, I'm bitter lol
Yeah, yeah, sure. Maybe if they had acquired Scola to help their frontcourt, I would have put them ahead of Toronto.
WTF, I didn't get an alert for this thread. I blame the upgrade. Quick thought: the Clippers are the most interesting team in the L. Who aren't they beefing with? Lakers, Warriors, now Mavericks. And they have Paul Pierce. This is gonna be great.
I'm not sure if I'm excited or depressed that seasons about to start as a Knicks fan. New faces, comes new forms of mediocrity. I hope Stephen A. Smith can bring the laughter cuz no doubt his "journalistic" bias towards the Knicks whenever they move any step towards any direction is greeted with nonsense!
[QUOTE="Catracho_Azul, post: 33050890, member: 127689"New faces, comes new forms of mediocrity. I hope Stephen A. Smith can bring the laughter cuz no doubt his "journalistic" bias towards the Knicks whenever they move any step towards any direction is greeted with nonsense![/QUOTE] He's already doing it in his beef with Durant. Threatining a player on television? Pretty funny, if you ask me.
Dying of laughter at the comments on this video. No doubt beating Brooklyn solidifies EURO League as the dominant force over NBA... lmao
He's already doing it in his beef with Durant. Threatining a player on television? Pretty funny, if you ask me.[/QUOTE] It was awesome. straight out of wrestling lol.
http://nypost.com/2015/10/07/matt-barnes-attacks-knicks-coach-fisher-for-dating-ex-wife/ Fisher with the last laugh since he's effin Barne's bish. RIP Barnes.
Klay: "I wanted to play the Clippers last year, but they couldn't handle their business"— Ethan Strauss (@SherwoodStrauss) October 9, 2015 Klay Thompson: "Didn't they lose to the Rockets? Exactly. So haha. That just makes me laugh. That's funny. Weren't they up 3-1 too?"— Diamond Leung (@diamond83) October 9, 2015 Gotta love this Dubs and Clips rivalry.