The quarter mark of the 2015-16 NBA season should come with a crystal ball.
It doesn't. Not for the most part.
The only truths revealed so far are the ones we could see coming before the campaign tipped off. The defending champion Golden State Warriors are incredible. Ditto for the San Antonio Spurs, already a contender last season before adding LaMarcus Aldridge and David West during their free-agency heist.
As for the bottom-feeders, that group looks equally short on surprises. The Philadelphia 76ers are tanking, and they're playing like it. The Los Angeles Lakers look like they're being led by a broken-down present version of a leader from their past.
There's plenty of smoke and mirrors beyond those four, with injuries, inconsistencies and still-developing identities clouding our view. But there's still enough data on hand to make educated guesses about what lies ahead.
Between current bodies of work and the track records behind them, we can get a sense of who's playing under, over or at its actual level. Factoring in health concerns (those we've already seen and the ones we're likely to encounter going forward) and sch ...
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