Wasteland 3 bill2/21/2023 ![]() and Gary Payton II depart, they will have to increasingly rely on the team’s youth contingent, which includes Jordan Poole plus a trio of recent lottery picks. Stephen Curry and Jordan Poole Photo by Bart Young/NBAE via Getty Images Golden State Warriors: 46.8Īs the Warriors’ championship core ages, and as depth players like Otto Porter Jr. So if the Suns win 50 or fewer games this season, that will represent an unprecedented collapse-and even 50-32 is good enough to compete for a top-four seed. In fact, not a single one of those teams that went 63-19 or better declined even to mediocrity the following year, as the worst of the bunch still won 51 games the following season. History is in the Suns’ favor, after they became the 32nd team in NBA history to lose fewer than 20 games in an 82-game schedule-because those 31 previous teams won, on average, 59.3 games in the next season. And the Suns just gave up 134 points to Australia’s Adelaide 36ers in the first preseason loss to a non-NBA team in six years.īut the roster that went 64-18 last season is still mostly intact, with the top four players-Ayton, Mikal Bridges, Devin Booker, and Chris Paul-all in place, plus sharpshooter Cam Johnson ready to take Crowder’s place in the starting lineup. Deandre Ayton apparently didn’t speak with head coach Monty Williams for months following a disastrous, embarrassing Game 7 loss last May. Suns owner Robert Sarver is exploring a sale of the team. ![]() The vibes aren’t great in Boston, which has the highest over/under in the Eastern Conference, and they’re just as dire in Phoenix, which has the highest over/under in the West. Teams are listed in order of their over/under win totals from FanDuel. Presented below is one key fact or figure that can help explain every Western Conference team’s outlook this season, for better or worse. Last week, we analyzed one defining number for every team in the Eastern Conference as the 2022-23 season approaches. ![]()
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