2024-25 NBA standings predictions

[Soldier]

-Eastern Conference-

Top 6 safe seeds/Sure playoff teams

1. New York
2. Boston
3. Philly
4. Indiana
5. Orlando
6. Cleveland

Wildcard seeds/Play-in teams

7. Milwaukee
8. Miami
9. Chicago
10. Atlanta

Non playoff teams

11. Charlotte
12. Toronto
13. Brooklyn
14.Detroit
15. Washington


-Western Conference -

Top 6 safe seeds/Sure playoff teams

1.Oklahoma City
2. Dallas
3. Minnesota
4. Denver
5.Sacramento
6. Memphis

Wildcard seeds/Play-in teams

7. Phoenix
8.Houston
9.New Orleans
10.Los Angeles Lakers


Non playoff teams

11.Los Angeles Clippers
12. Golden State
13. San Antonio
14. Portland
15. Utah

 

[Mandizi]

Clippers are too high. I'd be surprised if they make the play-in.

Houston too low as well.

 

[PatCake]

I got...

1. Thunder
2. Mavericks
3. Wolves
4. Kings
5. Suns
6. Nuggets
7. Pelicans
8. Grizzlies
9. Rockets
10. Lakers
11. Warriors
12. Clippers
13. Spurs
14. Blazers
15. Jazz

Thunder are obvious, take Mavericks over the Wolves due to better offseason additions plus Lively getting better.

Kings and Suns over Nuggets. Denver losing KCP and even Jackson is going to hurt. Bench looks exploitable. Kings over Suns i like the DeRozan addition better than the Jones and Morris additions for Phoenix.

Pelicans have a better guard situation but now have a big man rotation problem.

Grizzlies in the middle solely because I am unsure how well they bounce back. It is also a very tight conference.

Rockets 9th over the old head teams of california. Youth movement is great and i think Sheppard wins ROY.

Lakers slight edge over Curry and the Warriors. Loss of Thompson hurts but they replaced him as best they could. Wiggins would have to regain form he had 2 seasons ago to even make play ins.

Clippers just weird to me. George and Westbrook gone for nothing and didnt really replace their production well. Plumlee also left and they got Batum, however Leonard and Harden are older and i cannot see them willing this group to playoffs.

Spurs will win a bit more than last year. Blazers same thing. Jazz lose a lot more and probably finish in the teens in wins after an inevitable Markkanen trade.

I think the conference returns to the way it was 2 years ago, lots of 30 and 40 win teams. I think only OKC, DAL and MIN finish with 50 wins, while POR and UTH finish with under 30.

 

[Trojan 24]

Lakers going back to back for the In-Season Tourney