What are people’s predictions for this season?
Who’s winning MVP?
Are we going to have a dark horse win the championship?
Will the new lottery rules reduce or eliminate tanking?
Not really a hot take but I think Wemby wins MVP.
Jokic will have the stats but don’t think Nuggets are getting a top 3 seed unless they have much better injury luck than the last couple of years.
Same with Luka who would have the benefit of LA market pushing his case and he doesn’t have the voter fatigue Jokic/Shai do.
Shai as mentioned will have the voter fatigue hit hard since the voters really don’t want to give 3 in a row especially to someone coming off a short playoff run (see Jokic and Giannis). OKC likely has the team record and he’ll put up similar stats but Wemby takes it.
Giannis is an outside shot but I don’t think Heat have the record either.
Top 5 is something like
- Wemby
- Jokic/Shai
- Jokic/Shai
- Luka
- Giannis
TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
I think the lottery rules, as imperfect as they are, will massively reduce tanking and I’m excited to see more teams actually trying to win games down the stretch.
Having “relegation” battles at the end of the year to not be bottom 3 should be interesting stakes.
A big side effect though is draft pics values just got flattened. Before you’d rather have 1 pick from a really bad team, now you just want a volume of picks. Really changes the landscape for trades.