OT: 2025 NBA Season

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The most beautiful, exciting team sport in the world (with apologies to soccer) is about to begin a new season.

A few random thoughts and prognostications:

I think the TWolves got the better of the KAT trade. I personally like KAT. I just think he comes up short when it counts. If Randle can shoot a few percentage points better, it’s a no-brainer. DeVincenzo is a great shooter and gritty defender.

The Mavs suffered against Boston because their best players (Doncic, Kyrie) are great volume shooters who can’t defend. So they added Klay, a pretty good (at this stage) volume shooter who can’t defend anymore. Not sure how this makes sense.

OKC just put themselves over the top by adding Hartenstein and Caruso. They were very skilled but lacked toughness and rebounding. Has there been a better GM over the past decade than Sam Presti? (Outside of Bob Myers) I don’t think so.

Playoffs: (West) OKC over Denver
(East) Boston over New York


Finals: Boston over OKC.

MVP: SGA
ROY: Reed Sheppard (but Matas Buzelis looks really good too)
MIP: Wemby
COY: Billy Donovan

First Team:
SGA
Doncic
Brown (Bos)
Tatum
Jokic