Any honest assessment of the 2015-16 NBA season has to start with the admission that, almost halfway in, we still don't know what's going on.
We have our crop of four clear title contenders: the San Antonio Spurs, Golden State Warriors, Oklahoma City Thunder and Cleveland Cavaliers. And we have our hapless outfits on the other end of the spectrum: the Philadelphia 76ers, Los Angeles Lakers, Brooklyn Nets and Phoenix Suns.
But it's hard to recall a time when so much of the rest of the league (a full two-thirds of it in this case) was such a chaotic mess. Are the Bulls really any good? Will the West end up with two sub-.500 teams in the playoffs? Which of the dozen half-decent teams in the East will hold up? Which will fall off?
It's a little nutty out there right now, and when it's so hard to get a handle on the bigger picture, we sometimes don't even bother to appreciate the little things. Weird, novel and exciting minutia make the long grind of a season more fun.
So let's focus on those for a while. The important things—playoff berths, rings, MVP honors and the like—will sort themselves out in ...
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