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About the organization NBA:
Type: Business
Sub-Types: Sports League, Basketball League, Entertainment Production, Entertainment Promotion, Event Production, Event Promotion |
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Notable Organizations: NBA, Wikipedia
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| The Justice League? The Golden Great?
What cheesy nickname can we bestow upon the Golden State Warriors this season?
The NBA circus has set up shop in the Bay Area, to witness the latest iteration of SuperTeam. The Warriors have gotten almost all the attention, for good reasons and bad, all summer, after Kevin Durant shocked just about everyone paying attention and decided he’d relocate, taking advantage of a perfect financial storm to sign with Golden State. They are the story of the year, more than the defending champions who finally slayed the Drought Dragon in Cleveland, more than Dwyane Wade leaving the Miami Heat after 13 seasons, more than the incredible spike in player salaries this past summer.
But nothing is assured in sports. The NBA is no different. Twenty-nine other teams, all a little hot at all the pixels and clicks the Warriors are getting, will be gunning for them from opening night, when Golden State hosts the Tim Duncan-less San Antonio Spurs on TNT (10:30 p.m. ET). It may not matter, for the Warriors remain prohibitive favorites to win it all again, their offensive potential incapable of calculating.
But, we don’t know. That’s why people make ridiculous predictions before every season, guesses that will almost certainly be wrong and make the author look like an idiot.
Eh, what can you do? This is the business I’ve chosen.
So, as always, in honor of the late Danny Biasone -- whose simple idea in 1954 of putting in a 24-second shot clock for NBA play to make the games go faster and not degenerate into small ball saved the league -- here are 24 completely fact-lite predictions for the 2016-17 season. |
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