Unlike what happened in 2023-24, where Utah was a respectable team during the first half of the season before embarking on an epic tank job the rest of the year, the Jazz were a terrible team since the start of the last season. Their prized rookies Cody Williams and...

Portland had a 15-win improvement from 2023-24 to 2024-25 as they went from winning 21 games to winning 36 last season. This is obviously immediately great news but it is especially good news because a lot of those wins happened during the second half of the season as...

Orlando was the biggest surprise of the 2023-24 season as they won 47 games in the regular season mostly due to having the #2 defense in the league. With a young core of players, it was expected that the Magic would continue to improve last season. In fact, their...

The Knicks almost reached the NBA Finals last season, but they lost in six games to the Pacers. That feat wasn’t enough for coach Tom Thibodeau as he got fired in the offseason and was replaced by Mike Brown. So, why did the Knicks fire a coach who had just led them...

It has been a rarity to see a team coached by Erik Spoelstra have a losing record, but that happened with the Heat last season as they had to deal with the whole drama around Jimmy Butler until he was finally traded to Golden State in February. The Heat were for the...

Dallas was one of the most talked about teams during the second half of the last season but not for what they did on court. Luka Doncic was basically traded for Anthony Davis, Kyrie Irving tore his ACL and then, they got incredibly lucky in the draft lottery by...