NBA Opening Night Preview: Predicting The Winners

October 23rd, 2010 by Patrick Harrel Leave a reply »
Exactly zero games into the NBA season, analysts all over the country are frantically trying to name who the champion will be this June. Typically, these predictions are fairly laughable by the end of the year because it's impossible to see exactly how a team is going to perform until the real games begin.

Bill Simmons declared that the future sixth-seeded Milwaukee Bucks would win 19 games and fall to the last spot in the Eastern Conference and former Rocket Charles Barkley said that his old team would be the West's worst. Simply put, before meaningful games are played, any predictions are going to be nothing more than educated guesses.

After a summer in which Amar'e Stoudemire, Chris Bosh, LeBron James, and Brian Cook left their teams for new area codes, it seems like there has never been this much excitement to start a season.

And an interesting season it promises to be. To start off the season, the NBA has treated fans across the nation to three very enticing match-ups: the Heat vs. the Celtics, the Suns vs. the Trail Blazers, and the Rockets vs. the Lakers. Six of the league's best face off on one night and anyone that can't watch on ...

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