I wouldn’t put them below wolves and nuggets, which both had major changes over the offseason, probably for the worse, the nuggets surely. But yea if you take previous seasons into account mavs don’t tend to do well in the regular seasons - I’d argue this is because of rotten injury luck though :)

I love that you mentioned that, because I felt the same way the first time I looked at my list. But thinking about it, I came to the conclusion that the hawks will probably end up being better with a happier Trae and getting Risacher, while the bulls will atleast look a bit closer to the first seeded team they were prior to lonzo’s injury. But as someone pointed out, putting them ahead of the heat might be foolish.