Over or Under? 🤔 Hoop Collective DEBATES Knicks, Bucks & Magic’s win totals for 2025-26 NBA season

Over or Under? 🤔 Hoop Collective DEBATES Knicks, Bucks & Magic’s win totals for 2025-26 NBA season

Milwaukee Bucks 42 and a half. Uh this seems to be a wager that Giannis is not going to be there the whole year because they have won over 42 games for like the last eight years even if there has been some injury issues. Uh Bontemps, I don’t know what’s going to happen with Giannis, but um I would probably not make this bet right now until I see opening night, but um uh 42 and a half if Giannis is there seems low. Yeah, I mean probably it’s low. I mean, again, they they had Damen Lillard last year who’s awfully good and they didn’t really replace him. Uh they replaced Brook Lopez with Miles Turner, but they they still have the all-star point guard hole on their team. And yeah, they went out and like I I’ve liked some of the stuff they’ve done on the margins like Ryan Rollins is an interesting young player. Um, you know, getting Cole Anthony uh for the minimum on a buyout is fine. Uh, there’s just not there is not a lot of talent on the roster and their one Giannis injury of any sort away even whe whether he’s on, you know, say he’s on the team. If he misses three weeks, they quickly become one of the worst teams in the league. Uh so I’m going to take the under both as a hedge on if something happens though I don’t really expect it to uh tradewise and also just the idea of him getting hurt cuz he’s going to have a insane usage load this year and you know he’s going to put up crazy numbers but what I’m also not convinced that’s going to have him in a situation where he’s going to be playing 75 games and if he misses. Like I said, he misses any chunk of time, these guys are going to have a really, really, really hard time winning games. Yeah. No, they’re going to put the ball in San Koopo’s hands. Uh, just kidding. I was continuing my trend of script brothers names. Could have gone cost us there. Uh, former 60th overall pick, the Maverick’s third player in the uh, Luca Jaylen Brunson draft. I I can’t go under 42 and a half with the honest though. Um, I think we there’s going to be an interesting MVP discussion around him if he plays 70 games. I have the information I have today is that Giannis is on the team. Obviously, if that changes, you you change it, but um 42 and a half I’m going over. Um, New York Knicks uh real close to the Cavs in terms of favorites to win the East. Uh, McMahon 53 and a half. They added some some depth to their team. Um 53 and a half New York Knicks. I’m gonna go over just because I think that the Knicks are going to benefit from playing in the Eastern Conference where there’s, you know, going to be a lot of wins to be had. Um yeah, so that that’s about what I’ll say there. Um I and I I don’t know Mike Brown’s obviously uh his credentials speak for themselves. I I don’t know if firing Tibs is going to lead to more regular season wins or not, but I think this team wins more regular season games than they did last year. If that makes sense. Yeah. I I’m also taking the over. Uh same reasons as the Cavs. The Knicks are good. The Knicks are pretty deep. The Knicks got deeper this off seasonason and the East stinks. So, they’re going to win a couple more games and they’ll probably be the second seed. Yeah, there’s there’s three teams that ESPN Bet has in the 50s for overunder in the East and I just think that there’s going to be a lot of wins available for those teams. So, the Knicks I’m going to go over. The other team that other than the Cavs that is over uh has in the 50s for their overunder is the Orlando Magic. 51 and a half bonds. Obviously, the big offseason move trading for first for Desmond Bane. Yeah, I’m taking the under. Uh I I don’t I I like the I like the Magic talent-wise, but the Magic have a lot of injury questions. Thug stay on the court. Desmond Bane has had um a decent amount of health issues over the past couple years. Let’s see how he can stay on the court. Um you know, Mo Vagner was a really important piece of them off the bench. He’s obviously got a torn ACL. We’ll see when he can play. Jonathan Isaac is a guy who’s in and out of the lineup in general. Um Palo Ben Carroll and France Vagner both missed time last year. This team still has some shooting issues. And Jaylen Suggs. Yeah. Well, right. Suggs I mentioned earlier, but um I they could go over this number, but there’s enough things that could go wrong for them to be under that I’m going to take the under. But if they’re healthy in April, uh, going into the playoffs and they show some improvement offensively from their core guys, they are going to be a very difficult out in the postseason. I’d probably take the under. 51 and a half’s a lot. I think I think it’s close. I I think they’re probably a 50 win team. I don’t know about a 52- win team. Um, I love the the Bane fit for them. Um, you know, I certainly can say they overpaid. uh given the the pick package that went back in return, especially with the the Suns pick being in there. Um but this team was starved for a big time shooter. Bane’s a big-time shooter who can also create a little bit. Um but again, I think I think I’ll go 50 and not 52. Bane has averaged 56 games over the last three years. True. But even if they get um 56 games out of Bane, I think it’s going to be a boost to them. And I do think that they’re going to win some games. I don’t think they’re going to I don’t think they’re headed like to threaten 60. But again, if if I’m if I’m on the fence about a team in the Eastern Conference, I’m going to lean a little bit over if it’s a good team because I just think there’s going to be some wins out there. So, I’ll lean over on the Magic. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause]

Brian Windhorst, Tim Bontemps and Tim MacMahon of The Hoop Collective justify how many wins they believe the Bucks, Knicks and Magic will accumulate of the course of the 2025-26 NBA regular season.

0:00 Milwaukee Bucks
2:36 New York Knicks
3:55 Orlando Magic

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