Summer forecasts of the NBA: the greatest ribs and the East’s faller, as well as a gloomy forecast in Philly
With the new NBA program and training camps a few weeks later, it is time to look forward to the 2025-26 season. What reserves the future for the Eastern Conference? Our writers take a first stabbing in predicting how the ranking will take place.
Which eastern team will make the big leap in the ranking?
Ben Rohrbach: Orlando’s magic. I thought they were intended for 50 wins last year, before the injuries to Paolo Banchero, Franz Wagner and Jalen suggests, among others, they interrupted their rhythm in the regular season. Even if injured, they seemed formidable in a loss of the first round against the Boston Celtics reigning champion. Now they all report healthy, as well as Desmond Bane, who have acquired through trade. This is a team that should not be afraid of the Cleveland Cavaliers in his search for seed n. 1 of the conference.
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Tom Haberstroh: Orlando. Three of the seven teams in front of them in the ranking last season are making great steps backwards, so the magic would improve their record of .500 on this alone. He throws the additions of Bane and Sharpshooter Jase Richardson, and Magic has a good chance of cementing their first season of 50 wins from the Dwight Howard was (!).
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Dan Devine: The 76er. I am looking forward to my previously consolidated intent to speak in existence “a reasonably healthy season in Philadelphia”, why friends, what is the summer if not a time to stupidly tilt the windmills? And, from a more pragmatic trend: when looking for the team set to make the big leap, what better place to concentrate than on the team that has just done the largest dip?
Philly got a total of 60 games and 1,908 minutes from Joel Embiid and Paul George last season. The two maximum superstars played only 294 minutes in 15 games next to the guard of the All-Star Tyrese Maxey point. The trio appeared with only the rookie of the year Jared McCain Three games. If Anyone Of these totals they make a significant-e if Nick Nurse is able to maximize the value of a perimeter rotation that now also presents the choice of the VJ Edgecombe lottery and (probably?) Ala 3-and Quentin Grimes-A will even so the Sixer should.
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Vincent Goodwill: It should be magic. Feel, someone has to win these available games left free from the usual suspicions and assuming that magic has health on their side with Bancher and Wagner who are around a whole season, we will finally see how beautiful a Jamahl Mosley coach is. And they added Bane as a shooter with the spread of the floor with playoff experience. Fifty is not out of the question. Wild Card here, the Atlanta Hawks (cover, I know).
Which oriental team will make the largest drop in the standings?
Devine: The Celtics. Call me crazy, but I think that removing Jayson Tatum, Kristaps Porziņġis, Jrue Holiday, Luke Kornet and (probably?) To the horford from the rotation will probably send Boston to sink from the top of the oriental ranking towards the margins of the play-in tournament, if not beyond.
I know: take enough lukewarm. But as the great philosopher Rza said in the fundamental film “Popstar: Never Stop Never Stop”, “the higher get, the more you fall the more difficult. I want to say, ask any coconut.”
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Haberstroh: Celtics. How the powerful fell. Even an injury to altering Tatum’s career was a franchise alteration. In the wake of their best player who was put aside for the season (or most), the Celtics have resized their list literally. Their frontcourt rotation is made up of … prepared … NeemiaS Queta, Chris Boucher and Luka Garza. With Amphernee Simons in tow and a front of patchwork, there will be many losses of 152-144 in their future.
Start: Everyone looks to Boston and for a good reason. The Celtics still have Jaylen Brown, who could bring them at least to a play-in, but we are talking about a team of 60 wins here that he takes a big drop, while the pars lost Haliburton but had 50 wins last season. In addition, Pacers have Rick Carlisle, who is a wizard on the sidelines. Joe Mazzulla, let’s see if he manages to work magic without Tatum, Holiday and Horford (and often Poziņġis). Can you remove the bombs as plan A, B and C without the collective know-how of a defense of the championship behind you? They may surprise, but the only number of victories last season makes this choice easy.
Rohrbach: The Indian Pacers. The reigning samples of the conference lost Tyrese Haliburton due to an injury in game 7 of the NBA finals and then lost Myles Turner against the Milwaukee Bucks in the free agency. I don’t even know what their identity is in the absence of Haliburton, as well as continuing to push the rhythm, but now they have to do it without their best protector of the circle. They should give priority to development on their position in the conference, especially since they recently regained the rights on their choice of the first round.
Who will end with the first six seeds in the East?
Start: (1) Cavaliers, (2) Knicks, (3) pistons, (4) magic, (5) dollars, (6) Falchi
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I am still bullish on the knights as a team of the normal season, even if there are many questions about them in May. The Knicks will be a car from October to April even without the hard Tom Thibodeau. Detroit, assuming that Jaden Ivey is healthy and Ausar Thompson continues his ascent, could be ready for a real job. This is also preparing for the DOC Rivers over Overachieving Coach of the Year campaign which gives us from time to time, even with Prime Giannis.
Rohrbach: (1) Cavaliers, (2) Magic, (3) Knicks, (4) Hawks, (5) Pistons, (6) dollars
Cavs are still loaded. Even magic is now, since I believe in banquer as the main option in a great team. The talented Knicks are attenuating their time for the post -station. The Hawks and pistons are two other young teams on the rise. And I have more confidence in Giannis Antetokounmpo in Milwaukee than Joel Embiid does in Philadelphia or in anyone else.
Devine: (1) Knicks, (2) Cavaliers, (3) Magic, (4) Bucks, (5) Hawks, (6) Sixers
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I am taking a strong start for a team of Knicks who should open with a healthy Mitchell Robinson, a deeper bench, thanks to the arrivals of Jordan Clarkson and Guerschon Yabusele, and a new approach to both ends under the brown head and a slight step back for the Cavs with the All-Star Garland guard that potentially maintains the tip of the training field, at least following Surgery. I both like Orlando (who finished .500 despite the main trio Paolo Banchero, Franz Wagner and Jalen suggests 105 games, AND Added Desmond Bane) and Atlanta (probably the greatest winners of the low season of the conference) also to make jumps.
Milwaukee on the fourth is a bet on Giannis Antetokounmpo that continues to play at MVP level that we are now in some way in which we have been invaded. Philly in sixth place is what we call in the business by working in the bit.
Haberstroh: (1) Cavaliers, (2) Magic, (3) Knicks, (4) Hawks, (5) Pistons, (6) dollars
I have a good management of those six teams that are somewhere in hunting. What I don’t have Anyone Hands On: The Philadelphia 76ers. They could win east or be again among the top five on the lottery night. I divided the vehicle and analyzed them in the play-in tournament.
What is your most bold summer forecast involving the East?
Haberstroh: Joel Embiid joins Jayson Tatum and Tyrese Haliburton as East Stars who are Shir who unfold for the season. More than four months after arthroscopic surgery, the lack of positive news about the recovery of the EMBIID knee is worrying. Of course, it is notoriously private for his state of accident so that he can simply play Coy. But given his vast story of injuries, I am not confident about his availability this season.
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Devine: In addition to “projecting the belief in the 76er of Philadelphia?” Let’s go with: “The Celtics will go down to the top 10 in the East”.
It could be impossible if Jaylen Brown and Derrick White play the part of the lion games. What this takes on assumptions, however, is that, perhaps they will not do it-and even Payton Pi-Pritchard goes in full “is the time of Jordan Clarkson” will not bring a bright list to sufficient victories to qualify for the post-installation … which, in turn, gives Celtics a crack to a high lottery crack.
Rohrbach: I was trying to convince myself to Embiid playing quite well for more likely to be exchanged than Antetokounmpo, and what a hot blow would be, but instead I will go with this – a more optimistic ride: Jayson Tatum returns to the Celtics by the end of the season. Inspired by a hero for childhood, Kobe Bryant, and driven by a rapid surgery to repair his Achilles, Tatum will join the Celtics in some way, even if it is to put him under him in anticipation of a more formal reintroduction to Startom in 2027.
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Start: Are we sure Joel Embiid will play this season? Maybe there was too much atrophy, too friction on those knees and return for us to get more expectations for him. And this is not a fatalistic. A 7 feet with a floating weight and problems with the lower part of the leg, there is not a great precedent for the one in the history of the League, especially for someone who has never been a warrior of the regular season to begin with. He has just played enough games to qualify for his MVP season (66 in 2022-23), and since then he has played only 58. He is not a betting man, but the intelligent money is not on this.