Last month, we picked apart every NBA team's case for title contention with the full force of a summer's worth of fresh snark. This time around, we're coming at that task not only with more evidence to back up those claims but also from a different angle.
There's no ignoring the news that Kobe Bryant is going to hang up his sneakers for good at the end of the 2015-16 season. His decorated and controversial career has inspired millions around the world—including this particular Los Angeles-based writer—over the past two decades.
And since everyone else is paying homage to the Black Mamba these days, why can't we? To do so, we've categorized all 30 of the Association's member squads by different eras in Kobe's career, according to how good they are and how close they are to bringing home a championship.
For the bottom feeders, there's the shell of a shell of a shell of the Mamba to whom we've had to bear witness over the past few years. For those scuffling but still promising teams, there's the afro'd No. 8 who arrived on the scene as a teen.
For those trying to compete while staving off the unfortuna ...
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