Good morning everyone. If you a regular follower of my blog and came here for my comprehensive college football bowl predictions, I decided to do them early and you can find them in Tuesday's post. This is turning into prediction week on 'Bikini Hill' as I have decided to post my predictions for the upcoming NBA regular season today. As I posted here previously, I believe that this will be one of the more interesting NBA regular seasons in recent memory due to the fact that everyone's schedule will be condensed into such a short amount of time. I believe that player fatigue will create the potential for injuries to occur, and I think that we are more likely to see tempers flare from tired players who will be competing in 66 games during a 4-month span. I think that teams will need to play deep into their benches and avoid serious injuries to be successful this season. With that being said, I am throwing my predictions out there anyway because that's the kind of team player that I am... ;) For those of you who are new to the blog, some of my better predictions in recent memory were calling that none of the #1 seeds would reach the Final Four in last year's NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, picking the Houston Texans to win their division this season, thus earning their franchise's first-ever trip to the playoffs, and predicting that the defending AFC West champion Kansas City Chiefs would not reach the playoffs this year. And of course my list of missed predictions is too long to list here... ;) Here are my regular season predictions for the upcoming NBA basketball season:
Eastern Conference Western Conference
Atlantic Division W L Southwest Division W L
x Boston 44 22 x Dallas 45 21
x New York 39 27 x San Antonio 42 24
x Philadelphia 34 32 x Memphis 37 29
New Jersey 24 42 Houston 32 34
Toronto 20 46 New Orleans 29 37
Central Division W L Northwest Division W L
x Chicago 46 20 x Oklahoma City 43 23
x Indiana 38 28 x Denver 41 25
Milwaukee 31 35 x Utah 34 32
Cleveland 28 38 Portland 31 35
Detroit 25 41 Minnesota 17 49
Southeast Division W L Pacific Division W L
x Miami 48 18 x LA Lakers 39 27
x Atlanta 40 26 x LA Clippers 35 31
x Orlando 37 29 Phoenix 33 33
Washington 22 44 Golden State 23 43
Charlotte 19 47 Sacremento 14 52
Eastern Conference Western Conference
Team Games Behind Team Games Behind
Miami - Dallas -
Chicago 2 Oklahoma City 2
Boston 4 San Antonio 3
Atlanta 8 Denver 4
New York 9 LA Lakers 6
Indiana 10 Memphis 8
Orlando 11 LA Clippers 10
Philadelphia 14 Utah 11
I am curious to see how many of the eight playoff teams I can get right in each conference. I will be back here tomorrow with my usual Friday football predictions. If you remember last week's NFL picks, then you know to take these basketball predictions with a grain of salt... :) Have a great day and I'll see you tomorrow.
Wow, your predictions were pretty amazing. I don't know if you based this off an in depth schedule analysis, with maybe game to game predictions (which would have been really cool to see) but nonetheless, your predictions were almost spot on and incredibly impressive. Keep up the good work.
ReplyDeleteThank you. I actually took a piece of notebook paper and gave everyone a 33-33 record, and then for every win, 10 wins, etc... I gave someone, I added that many losses to someone, etc... Comparing it to other predictions I saw after finishing, Denver and Utah were the teams I liked more than others, who chose Portland or Phoenix. Denver had a pretty good draft - I looked at draft results as I went through this process. I thought the East was easier to figure out. Enjoy the playoffs!
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