they won't. There are a few teams that could take games off of them on any given night. Denver, Cavaliers, Rockets, Minnesota, Knicks, healthy Dallas could all take games. Maybe GSW/LAL/LAC could take a game off of them as well.
70 wins seems very plausible. A decade after 2016, it feels like a repeat of it. If LeBron retires, it’ll be like Kobe in 2016. The thunder, a young team with a big 3 with great floor spacing, will win 70 games, but perhaps are overtaken by Cleveland or another east team in a historic finals. The draft has a top 2 very similar to 2016 (Ingram to DP) and Ben to Boozer. Marked by a huge summer of 2026, despite a quiet deadline
Back to back I can buy. But breaking that record is such a long shot. It would mean they have no injury issues, they aren't load managing, at all, or resting starters late in the season after they've secured the one seed. I just don't see it.
The Warriors won 67 games before going 73-9, but what required was Curry, the reigning MVP at the time, being in conversations for the most improved player award. Unless you think Shai or JDub or Chet like all have like another level they can get to, and then it just not mattering that the Warriors now have training camp with Butler after going on a crazy record to end last year, the Rockets getting KD, Jokić finally having a good roster around him (they fired their coach right before the playoffs and the series still went 7 against OKC), then I really don't think that 74 wins is at all likely. They won the chip, but it was not terribly convincing. We'll see, but I'm penciling them in for like 55-56 wins. The Nuggets and Rockets could very well be the 1 and 2 seeds. There is a world in which that happens.
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Mark my words…. (baring major health issues) not only will they do that but they're going b2b
they won't. There are a few teams that could take games off of them on any given night. Denver, Cavaliers, Rockets, Minnesota, Knicks, healthy Dallas could all take games. Maybe GSW/LAL/LAC could take a game off of them as well.
I respect the take. I think it's more likely that they win the title again then that they break the wins record.
70 wins seems very plausible. A decade after 2016, it feels like a repeat of it. If LeBron retires, it’ll be like Kobe in 2016. The thunder, a young team with a big 3 with great floor spacing, will win 70 games, but perhaps are overtaken by Cleveland or another east team in a historic finals. The draft has a top 2 very similar to 2016 (Ingram to DP) and Ben to Boozer. Marked by a huge summer of 2026, despite a quiet deadline
If the next CBA is anything like the current one there won't even be a 70 win team for a good while
Lol
Your whole shtick is engagement baiting with terrible takes
OKC is not THAT good. They’re a great team not a historical team. By a longshot, this season is going to prove it.
No.
Back to back I can buy. But breaking that record is such a long shot. It would mean they have no injury issues, they aren't load managing, at all, or resting starters late in the season after they've secured the one seed. I just don't see it.
The Warriors won 67 games before going 73-9, but what required was Curry, the reigning MVP at the time, being in conversations for the most improved player award. Unless you think Shai or JDub or Chet like all have like another level they can get to, and then it just not mattering that the Warriors now have training camp with Butler after going on a crazy record to end last year, the Rockets getting KD, Jokić finally having a good roster around him (they fired their coach right before the playoffs and the series still went 7 against OKC), then I really don't think that 74 wins is at all likely. They won the chip, but it was not terribly convincing. We'll see, but I'm penciling them in for like 55-56 wins. The Nuggets and Rockets could very well be the 1 and 2 seeds. There is a world in which that happens.
They're definitely not breaking the record