For instance, we're coming off a top-heavy regular season in which the No. 1 team in net rating, the Oklahoma City Thunder, put up the second-best figure (plus-12.8) since the 1976 NBA-ABA merger ...

Let's run through the dominant NBA narratives we'll hear if each team, ranked in order of my title odds with at least a 1% chance (after rounding), wins the Larry O'Brien Trophy in June.

1 word to describe each of the last 4 teams standing in NBA playoffs. This NBA postseason has been compelling, but there are better words to characterize the 4 teams that still have a chance to ...

This is OKC's first conference finals appearance since they blew a 3-1 lead to the Warriors and Kevin Durant bolted for the Warriors the following season. 2012 was the last time OKC made it to the NBA ...

Ranking each of the last NBA champions, from 2000 to 2025: ... This was the best championship team of the Warriors dynasty and one of the most dominant.

Championship history: Led by Isiah Thomas, the "bad boy" Pistons won back-to-back championships in 1989 and 1990 after coming up just short against the Lakers in the 1988 NBA Finals.

And that's without getting into all of the other teams who have at least some chance to win the 2024-25 title -- each of which has its own potential lesson about where the league is heading.. Let ...