The NBA surprises us every year. No one could have seen the Detroit Pistons going from 14 wins to 44 wins last season, or the Indiana Pacers reaching the NBA Finals and pushing the series to seven games. I thought the Clippers would be mediocre at best and then they became one of the best teams in the West. I certainly didn’t have the Cleveland Cavaliers winning 64 regular season games. That’s just the start of it.
There will be more surprises this season as the NBA kicks off the 2025-26 campaign. The conventional wisdom that formed in the preseason will inevitably be bucked, and new narratives will quickly form.
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