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We now officially have the 20 teams that will be in the post season.

What are you conference finals/finals predictions?

Who do you think wins Finals MVP?

Any surprise contenders?

The bucks miss the playoffs for the first time in years in what is likely the last season we’ll see Giannis on the Bucks.

https://youtube.com/shorts/BCNDiNUjqFY?

Obviously KD is a way better player on the court. But is he actually more "toxic" than Brooks? I feel like these two clips And the whole" Getofmydickerson" thing point to yes?

Bulls pick is top 8 protected so they’ll be hoping the balls fall their way this offseason.

Ok I know this isn't NBA content. But this shot was insane. And this is a compilation of all the cameras that were on the floor at the time. You gotta see them!

1st Proposal

In the first proposal, sources told Charania, 18 teams --the bottom 10 that miss the play-in tournament, and the eight that qualify for it -- all will be part of the draft lottery•

The bottom 10 teams will all have an equal 8% chance of moving up in the lottery, with the remaining 20% of the odds being split among the eight play-in teams in descending order from 11th through 18th.

All 18 spots would be drawn as part of the lottery in that format.

2nd Proposal

In the second proposal, sources told Charania, 22 teams - the bottom 10 teams that miss the play-in tournament, the eight that qualify for it and the four playoff teams that lose in the first round -- will all be included in the lottery, and will be ranked according to their record across two seasons. The last part, weighting teams by their record across the prior two seasons, is how the WNBA weights its lottery system.

Under that system, each team would need to reach a minimum win total floor in each season, to mitigate the need to lose every game possible. For example, if the minimum floor for an individual season was 20 wins, a team that went 14-68 would be 20-62 for lottery purposes. And if a team wins 40 games one season and 20 games the next season, it would go in as 30 wins for the lottery.

In this system, the top four spots would be drawn as part of the lottery, as is currently.

3rd Proposal

The third proposal is a "5 by 5" method, sources told Charania. In this one, the same 18 teams from the first proposal -- the bottom 10 that miss the play-in, plus the eight that make it -- would be entered into the lottery.

The teams with the five worst records would then all have the same odds, with them descending from there, and there would be a lottery drawing for each of the top five picks in the draft.

After those five picks are selected, there would be another lottery drawing for the remaining 13 teams. If any of the teams with the five worst records didn't land one of those top five spots -- like last season, when the teams with the first (the Utah Jazz), second (Washington Wizards) and fourth (New Orleans Pelicans) worst records all moved back to 5th, 6th and 7th, respectively - the lowest they could wind up in the second lottery drawing would be 10th, preventing a bad team from falling too far down the draft board.

Guess at least the Pelicans still have most of their picks despite stupidly trading this years.

Zion is on track to have his 2nd healthiest year yet too, not sure what that says about the rest of the roster though if they’re still this bad.

Now that they’ve decided to rebuild it will be interesting to see where Morant goes.

Pretty clear this was the pivot they were going to do after getting Flagg last year.

Their pick in 2027 is only top 2 protected though so have to imagine they start trying to win next year.

Kyrie has a PO after next season so figure we’ll see him moved either this offseason or at the deadline too

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Based on the JJJ trade it looks like they’re going to push to actually win games next year so we’ll see how good they can be with Lauri and JJJ given how tough the west is.

Think it’s pretty clear they need to go for a full rebuild again. The light the beam year was a bit of an outlier that they then over committed to unfortunately.

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If I’m understanding right Houston can swap picks with the Nets next year so they won’t have an incentive to tank.

Could be why they kept MPJ who had a good year last year.

Seems like they’re going to make a playoff push next year with the trades for AD and Young. I think they have a good shot especially in the east if AD is reasonably healthy.

23/30 owners need to vote yes.

This vote is to allow the league to get bids from Seattle and Las Vegas specifically.

Then once the bids have been received another vote later this year would occur to approve those.

With their loss to the Kings they are now out of the playoff race.

Not a big surprise I’m sure since this was always going to be a gap year after Hali went down. They’ll be hoping to add a top lottery pick to the roster to regroup for a run next year.

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