"Bold" Predictions - 2016-17 NBA season edition

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  1. Orion Bailey

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    You lost me
     
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    Portland trades for Okafor. Which causes some posters here to freak out because of his "lack of defense".
    CJ plays less than 35 games this year.
    Ezeli plays less than 20 games this year.
    Portland misses the playoffs.
    Lillard averages 28pgg but shoots sub 40% from the field.
    Stotts is fired before the season is over
     
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    You had Blazers vs Clippers in the WCF. He is saying the only way this happens is if the Warriors team dies in a fiery plane crash.
     
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    RipCityDSCPL Could be worse, at least it's not Lonzo.

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    OUCH!

    AHH got it. :)

    I second that??? Or please go knock on an oak table or something?
     
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    Ha, I guess I'm in a glass half empty kind of mood this morning.
     
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    Nobody will make any misogynist remarks for the first week.

    Oh, you said bold, not impossible.

    The Blazers will be the #2 seed. I honestly don't see why not. I have no faith in Clippers and Spurs will regress. So will OKC. Unless someone seriously thinks Dallas, Utah, Houston, New Orleans or Memphis will erupt, and I don't.
     
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    Ducks bring back Bellotti to coach next year.
     
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    SPD switches to Beavers.
     
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    I already made my prediction in some other thread: we'll have a better record than the Spurs.
     
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    Olshey leaves at the end of the season to become GM of Miami or one of the NY or LA franchises. Canzano writes article about Blazers being a small market team who can't keep a big market GM, relates it to the Ducks and then blames everything on the Vulcans.
     
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    Updated thread title to make it easier to find at the end of the season.
     
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    HCP gets in trouble, similar to the situation that occurred with Richie Incognito.
     
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    Another prediction, 76ers will make the playoffs this year. Embiid will stay relatively healthy with only missing a few games.
     
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    HCPand OB share a drink before/after a home game before season's end
     
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    Sixers are going to hold Embiid out of b2b games. So he'll at least miss those.
    Believe he's also on a minute restriction.
     
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    Now that's bold¡
     
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    While not mathematically impossible, those combined win totals are highly improbable and unprecedented. I guess that what makes your predictions so bold.

    Never in the entire 70 year history of the NBA have 3 teams in the Western Conference won more than 60 games. The two closest times were:

    2006-07:
    DAL = 67 wins
    PHO = 61 wins
    SAS = 58 wins (NBA Champs)

    1971-72:
    LAL = 69 wins (NBA Champs)
    MIL = 63 wins
    CHI = 57 wins

    Yes, prior to western expansion, MIL and CHI were in the Western Conference (as was DET, which is in the Eastern Time Zone).

    In any case, that means there has also never been a time when the top 4 teams in the West all won at least 58 games. Again, the 2006-07 season comes the closest with HOU at 52 wins having the 4th best record behind DAL, PHO and SAS.

    There are only so many wins to go around and the more the top 2 or 3 teams win, the fewer there are for the middle seeds. The only times you see the 7th and 8th seeds winning 50 games is when all the playoff teams are closely clustered between 50 and 60 wins. For example, in 2009-10 the 8 playoff teams were:

    2009-10:
    LAL = 57 wins
    DAL = 55 wins
    PHO = 54 wins
    DEN = 53 wins
    UTA = 53 wins
    POR = 50 wins
    SAS = 50 wins
    OKC = 50 wins

    BNM
     
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