The last three teams to win NBA championships have all been eliminated early in the 2025 Playoffs. Joining them is a top-seeded title favorite, who despite their improvements and massive spending, only managed one win in the second round.
Apart from not meeting their title aspirations, they will now join several other teams in dealing with the dreaded tax aprons that threaten to force major changes. So where do the Celtics, Warriors, Nuggets and Cavs go from here?
Do they start a complete rebuild? Reload and try again? Somewhere in the middle? That’s what we’ll try to figure out as we chart the biggest issues and likely
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