Kings: lost Harrison Barnes, and added DeMar DeRozan.
Pelicans: lost Valanciunas, and added DeJounte Murray.
Suns: lost Eric Gordon, and added Tyus Jones, Mason Plumlee, and Monte Morris.
Lakers: lost Taurean Prince.
Grizzlies: back in full strength. Last season Ja Morant played only 9 games, Marcus Smart only 20 games, and Desmond Bane only 42 games.
Easy.
Kings. Fox, Sabonis, DeRozan, Malik and a bunch of solid role players is a recipe for NICE.
Grizzlies. Top 2 seed when Ja last played. From how insane he was immediately as he returned last year, safe to say they’ll be at least playoff caliber. 6th seed.
Pels. DeJounte Murray get is underrated. They have their own ‘Big 3’. Only thing stopping them is having no starting caliber C.
PHX. 0-4 aside, they still got KD, Booker, Beal and added a real PG who’s actually good too in Tyus. They not finishing as well as last year, but they’ll still be hovering play-ins.
Lakers. No roster changes, lost their 3rd best player in playoffs. Bronny and JJ nepotism drama. LeBron and AD no off-season rest at the Olympics. Laker fans should be glad next season ain’t turn out to be a Bronny circus.
I feel like Suns will finish better than last year.
Nah, I think KD and Booker would see a decline because of Olympics + KD age. Beal too if you take into account injury.
I mean the Lakers got two additions in Vando and Vincent who didn’t play last season
They did play and when they played they were trash. Gabe was playing trash even before the injury and Vando gets hypothetically hyped up for his added defense, but by 5 games, Laker fans would start complaining bout his offense and blame their Ls on him.
They are moving the needle.
Prince was far away from being lakers 3rd best player that’s a horrible take