It’s the last week of July and we’ve had a tumultuous and tamperiffic NBA offseason. You know what that means! As we wait for August to come and go so we can get to the Team USA G Team, we can kill some time by looking at the potential playoff situations of both the East and the West.
For the Eastern Conference, the departure of Kawhi Leonard makes it feel like an instantly wide-open race. The Milwaukee Bucks and the Philadelphia 76ers seem to have the clearest paths to the NBA Finals, but that doesn’t mean other teams can’t start making their moves. Indiana, Boston, Brooklyn and Toronto still want to be in the mix. Teams like Orlando, Miami and Detroit want to prove they belong in the tier above them. Teams like Chicago, Atlanta and maybe even Washington want to get into the mix.
And the rest of the conference? Well, the NBA Draft Lottery is just 10 months away! Let’s group these 15 Eastern Conference teams into five categories. There…
