Every NBA Team’s Best Possible Outcome | ALL NBA PODCAST
Tim Legler and Adam Mares break down the best case scenario for every NBA team this season. From the Boston Celtics, Brooklyn Nets, Philadelphia 76ers, and New York Knicks in the East, to the Golden State Warriors, Los Angeles Lakers, Clippers, and Phoenix Suns in the West, they analyze what it would take for each franchise to reach its ceiling. The conversation covers all 30 teams including contenders like the OKC Thunder, Denver Nuggets, and Cleveland Cavaliers, rising teams like the Hawks and Magic, and rebuilding squads like the Hornets, Wizards, and Nets. Every team’s ultimate path to success is on the table in this comprehensive NBA preview
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00:00 – Intro
01:48 – Boston Celtics’ best case scenario this year
03:34 – Brooklyn Nets’ best case scenario this year
05:16 – Philadelphia 76ers’ best case scenario this year
06:57 – New York Knicks’ best case scenario this year
08:40 – Toronto Raptors’ best case scenario this year
10:55 – Golden State Warriors’ best case scenario this year
14:03 – Los Angeles Lakers’ best case scenario this year
16:06 – Los Angeles Clippers’ best case scenario this year
17:36 – Phoenix Suns’ best case scenario this year
18:43 – Sacramento Kings’ best case scenario this year
20:24 – Chicago Bulls’ best case scenario this year
21:54 – Cleveland Cavaliers’ best case scenario this year
24:10 – Indianapolis Pacers’ best case scenario this year
27:11 – Detroit Pistons’ best case scenario this year
30:12 – Milwaukee Bucks’ best case scenario this year
34:44 – Denver Nuggets’ best case scenario this year
36:19 – Minnesota Timberwolves’ best case scenario this year
41:13 – OKC Thunder’s best case scenario this year
43:05 – Portland Trailblazers’ best case scenario this year
44:40 – Utah Jazz’ best case scenario this year
45:55 – Atlanta Hawks’ best case scenario this year
47:20 – Charlotte Hornets’ best case scenario this year
49:22 – Miami Heat’s best case scenario this year
50:53 – Orlando Magic’s best case scenario this year
53:29 – Washington Wizards’ best case scenario this year
54:33 – Dallas Mavericks’ best case scenario this year
55:45 – Houston Rockets’ best case scenario this year
57:23 – Memphis Grizzlies’ best case scenario this year
58:20 – New Orleans Pelican’s best case scenario this year
59:12 – San Antonio Spurs’ best case scenario this year
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25 Comments
DEN is no1 seed, OKC vastly overrated
Thunder in five.
Wolves won 56 games last time they ran it back and elected to go with chemistry amd consistency.
Okc core is still insanely strong, nuggets reloaded while the wolves are gonna be waaaay more humble and hungry after their akward shooting splits 10-70 from 3
and out east giannis last year with the bucks while indy has Halliburton injury lingering so the knicks or cavs are gonna be fun to watch.
Legs continuing the ESPN promotion of the Lakers and Warriors. The ESPN agenda is to promote large market teams to get more subscribers. These guys aren’t serious and don’t do any real analysis. It’s all about the money. You all remembers the Lakers in 5. Legs is a joke be cause he is committed to the ESPN agenda.
Legs always hates on the wolves!!!…. bro we swept denver last year!!! Bro we not worried about anyone but OKC.
Love the underestimating of Timberwolves again. Suns in 6, Denver in 5, Lakers in 5, and now their ceiling for this year is second round LMAO!
The Bucks hate continues… go figure lol
This is the best and most cohesive roster they’ve had since 2021. Conf finals!
Indianapolis Pacers???
I aligned more with Adam's best case scenarios, even though I KNOW Tim know the NBA way better than me, it seemed like in this particular exercise he repeatedly kept forgetting that this was BEST CASE SCENARIOS . So for each team this was whats possible if everything breaks the right way for them, including the easiest playoff path, all their players stayed healthy & played 100% up to their capabilities, with any younger players on roster reaching there potential. It seemed he kept kind of hedging back to whats likely instead of possible. Full disclosure I am a Rockets fan so they both picked HOU as champs, but for instance to say everything broke right for the NYK, Brunson balls out finishing 3rd in MVP, Brown hits the floor running as HC winning Coach of the year, Robinson stays healthy, the 2 big new starting lineup is a positive, while OKC loses a 7 game series in the WCF to the LAL who had to beat DEN in a 7 game series in the 2nd round, while CLE got knocked off in the 2nd rd by ORL & NYK beat ORL in 5, that the Knicks can't beat the Lakers in the finals with a 43 year old LeBron having played 3 rounds & 2 game 7 game series already while the Knicks are way more rested already, is crazy. THATS a best case scenario to me.
Going by BEST CASE SCENARIOS I have a total of 6 teams having a possibility of being able to win the Finals in their respective base cases. In order its…
1. OKC
2. DEN
3. HOU
4. CLE
5. NYK
6. LAC
That's just me personally I think ONCE AGAIN like last season the LAC are being severely underrated after only having Kawhi for like 30ish games & still winning 50 games & going to a 7 game series against the team (DEN) thay everyone thought was the 2nd best team in the playoffs after OKC. Not only is Kawhi healthy & very likely to play more than 30 games but they upgraded their roster more than any team outside of HOU to me including ATL & ORL. They added B. Beal who is 1 year younger than his predecessor N. Powell & he is a better on ball creator & perimeter defender than Powell was. They added J. Collins to their roster without giving up anything, they added C. Paul without losing anything, & B. Lopez to back up Zubac without giving up anyone. They are way deeper with way better depth than last season, and the starting lineup might even be better than last years as well. So that's why I barely included them as the 6th & final team capable of a title. FYI the team that came the closest on the other side of the cut on my list was GS followed by ORL, then LAL but I couldn't bring myself to add THAT many teams.
We're here again. Comparing Dallas and Houston, two teams with similar identities and issues, but somehow Dallas, the arguably deeper team with arguably the best player, and with a much better chance of getting their much, much better PG back before the playoffs, is a second round out, and the Rockets are a Finals contender. Make it make sense.
The East is wide open. It will depend who’s hot and healthy at the end of the season.
I like Spues for 6th above Mavs and Rockets. Then having an epic battle with Minn where we db
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Let’s Go NuGGetS!
🏀 ⛏️ 🏆
So the Pistons and Magic can make the ECF but the Hawks can’t ? Lmao the disrespect is crazy
Thompson bros high in Fantasy this year…
2nd round MAX for the Clippers lol? This is one of the most loaded teams ever assembled and Kawhi isn’t missing 60+ games to start the season.
If a team is a finals contender they have to have a punchers chance at worst case scenario and this is supposed to be best case, legs never gives Knicks any credit. Wonder why there’s s hate there?!?🤔 it’s like he’s saying even if someone key gets hurt on the other team Knicks still have no best case scenario that leads to them winning, and injuries are definitely a possible scenario that could help the chances of deep playoff contenders especially a finalist.its just bias and disingenuous. 💯 maybe if he didnt always obviously shade the Knicks but it’s weird atp.
Alpi in Eurobasket was wild. Him vs Jokic was basketball porn. Sengun got the best of the Joker though.
Can we please get OKC vs Hou in the conference finals. Straight up dog fight.
Tim with the ESPN takes on the Warriors and Lakers. Pleasee
Fuck the lakers and lebalco james. Ive been sick of him for 5 fucking years at least. Hes literally overstaying his welcome via PED’s and i wish he would go away
Wait so Legs is higher on the Bulls than he is the Raptors who have a more talented team? I’m genuinely confused by that take. Help!
I don’t agree with clippers ceiling, I think the issues is age but if they get to playoffs healthy they can beat any team in the league