so lets have a nice NBA season with no injuries hopefully ,
i d like to ask your opinion i wanna place a bet about each division winner , my picks are
-brooklyn because : firstly cause of their coach , he transformed grizzlies from a lottery team to a playoff team and what a team . furthermore they lost pierce/livingston and in exhange they got a pure scorer bogdanovic and jarrett jack who is an improvement over livingston imo . brook is back and deron is finally cured ? ( lets hope so ) , they had the best record in the NBA in the 2nd half last year after they finally found chemistry as a team since like all of em were new players .
-chicago because : the core is the same , rose will propably find his old self around christmas , pau is an improvement over boozer , mirotic will stretch the floor and open lanes for rose to drive in and brooks+rose will rest hinrich a little and move him to his real SG position something that means his FG % will improve since he wont have to play 48 mins . cavs will do good no hate at em but i cant pick a team with a rookie coach to have a better record than a team who made the 4th place in the east without its star and after the improvement it ve done this year
-oklahoma because : because portland has no bench
-clippers because : its now or never for em , plus they got a better bench this year
-spurs because : they are spurs ,same team as last year , they chase they repeat that they are missing. mavs did some good moves but overall they are the same team as last year in my eyes with different names , a pain in the *** if you meet em in the playoffs but not a high seed regular season team
-miami heat : yeah they lost lebron but they got mcroberts/granger/deng/napier . ofc none of em is equal to lebron but they kept the same core and they significantly improved their bench . Lets not forget what bosh did as the number 1 gun in toronto raptors and wade has life in him . mcroberts is a good team player will bring energy,hustle,defence,stretch the floor with his 3pt shot and he is a very solid addition that no one speaks for. i dont know about granger ( i dont believe too much in him ) and deng will do fine . napier will do good as well imo the guy has balls . i pick em over wizards because they lost ariza , except wall/beal step up so much their game and otto porter lives up the expectations of the number of his draft pick .