Which players will breakout? Disappoint?
Which team will surprise? Disappoint?
Who will win the chip?
Mine:
Tyler Herro averages 25 PPG and lead the heat to a top 3 seed in the East.
Scottie Barnes will breakout with averages of 20/7/7.
Lakers will finish as 6 seed or lower due to injuries again.
Suns will win the chip.
Zion gets on Ozempic and loses 50lbs.
I want this timeline
Rockets will have a top 10 defense but a 20-25 ranked offense
Breakout: Pritchard will be a dark horse for Most Improved and Sixth Man!
Disappointed: Embiid. Is no longer being pushed by wanting the MVP, will have a slightly worse team around him. Except his stats to suffer as Maxey improves his numbers.
Chip: probably the Nuggets tbh
The new all nba rules usher in a new era where most rational fans realize we cannot weigh all nba selections in the future as much as ones in the past (overall, not each one individually)
Worse players relative to the rest of the league will start winning a lot of them, muddying up the prestige of the award and also giving worse players super maxes. Those worse players getting super maxes will start weighing down teams and you’ll see people start to complain about the rule ruining things for small markets who feel like they have to give out bad giant contracts to players who don’t deserve them or lose them
Brandon Miller is this season’s Keegan Murray, he’s not going put up big box score numbers like other rookies but he’s going to an efficient 3 and D while helping the Hornets back into the postseason.
Furkan Korkmaz demanding trade for the 4th time in 5 years and Sixers just keeping him as indentured servant anyways
Sir. That’s not a hot take. That’s just an inevability.
Miami misses playoffs
Hawks will win 48+ games this season
Hawks being really good was going to be my hot take, but so many media personalities are already on the Hawks bandwagon.
Love to see it
Marcus Morris cheap shots Wemby
Russell Westbrook eats a basketball
LeBron James or Anthony Davis will win the MVP Award.
Nuggets don’t make the conference finals
The Heat don’t have a miraculous playoff run this year and get bounced in round one
Jazz and Wolves will make the playoffs.
Lakers will try to trade for Mitchell when they’re underperforming early on.
Grizzlies make the playoffs
The Pacers will make the playoff
I like that first prediction