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We have a few things to get to today. We're gonna be talking about
the proposed start date of next year's NBA season. That gives us a lot
of material to work with. And we're also going to get into NBA Mats
franchise rankings for the past decade. It was determined using NBA Mats rolling rating
and I'm going to Adam's going to relay some of them to us. The
top teams we're gonna see, do we have any qualms is that are we
surprised or any teams too high? Too low? I'm gonna go at him
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right or review, even if it has constructive criticism. Adam, how
are you doing? Doing pretty well? I'm feeling a little pressure. I
am sweating because I'm I'm nervously anticipating having to justify some of these rankings.
But I'm also excited to talk about some of this news, especially because it
seems like the twenty twenty twenty one season will actually start in twenty twenty and
as a creature of Habit who is so used to referring two seasons by those
dual year tags, phrases, whatever you want to call it, that's exciting
just because it means it'll actually be accurate when we keep referring to this upcoming
season as twenty twenty twenty one. Yeah, that's look, it's so I'm
shocked by the date. So this was from I think it was Sham's at
a first right Woes was reporting on ESPN, was reporting out their supports all
over the place about it. But this one comes from from Shams. The
NBA is targeting in December twenty second return date for the twenty twenty one season
and a seventy two game campaign that finishes before the twenty twenty one Olympics,
and so before we I think there's a lot of line reading, like between
the line readings to do here, because this is still sort of unfolding,
But the swiftness with which is happening I think allows us to infer a couple
of things. And obviously getting it done before the Olympics was a priority.
The fact that we're at seventy two games, that they're doing it before Christmas,
those were clearly then priorities they wanted to be on Christmas. They're obviously
trying to fit as many games as possible. The thing that stands out to
me, I'm curious how you feel about this. I feel like it means
that owners don't think waiting is going to give them a better chance of having
fans in arenas next year, Like that was my primary read on that.
That was my first takeaway as well, because you know, they've been talking
about Martin Luther King Junior Day as a potential start date or maybe even later
than that, as a way to get some gate revenue and some fans in
the buildings. But you know that that was always contingent on the pandemic improving
upon you know, cases declining, upon vaccine possibilities, and as as we're
recording this, cases are continuing to spike around the country and we're seeing new
record setting number of positive tests and hospitalizations and everything. So I think it's
just becoming increasingly clear that this isn't going away in the short term future,
and that it is probably better for the league financially to make that gate revenue
sacrifice, get in a full season and then attempt to resume normalcy in the
twenty twenty one twenty twenty two season. And I think some people have pointed
out that maybe it just means that the teams are more optimistic that they would
be allowed to have fans in earlier and I just I would take the the
opposite side of that, where it's maybe they think that they'll still be able
to have some fans and arenas at some point, but they don't think that
waiting until Martin Luther king Day or even until March like had been rumored,
but just never really seemed realistic when you were considering it all that they wouldn't
get that much closer to capacity and so this that logic to me, like
that's where I fall on it, whether it's a good decision or not,
like you're imposing travel here. But WOAG did say that they're going to try
and set up baseball like series so you're gonna have teams, which I think
is smart, and that was probably the last wave frontier for them to cut
down travel. Anyway, when you look at what they've done just in previous
seasons for regular seasons, the way that they've sort of eliminated back to backs
in four games in five nights, this might be something they could look at
moving forward to you know, try and cater to players getting rest and then
cutting down on the travel. I'm make sure to see how it plays out.
As a fan, I'm excited that the league is planning on starting back
up again. It's a short offseason. It's wild to think that two months
from now is when the regular season and is supposed to start, or maybe
that's not, Like if that's the regular season date, like we are so
unbelievably close to training camps, like that's just absolutely wild. The drafts on
the A team, we don't even have a free agency date just yet.
That stuff is all. It's it's a lot to process, but it is
exciting. Of course, you want everything to be okay, like the bubble
worked out, which is great, and people like myself who were skeptical of
it, like we ate chrome on it. That's the thing that you love
to eat crow on, Like, I'm glad there was no it's just now
you're you are throwing some levels of travel into this, and players are going
to be going outside of their team dynamics, like to their families and and
living their lives. And look, I was very clear that you can't ask
them to be sequestered for longer than they were at Disney. I like that
was even a stretch. But that's the that's just the concern. Now,
it's like how what ends up happening with this? Will there be implications like
we saw in baseball, even in football, just because it's so much more
of a contact sport. Uh, they're not playing as much, but they're
because it's more of a contact sport, it feels like it's spreading easier through
there. And I think that the NFL would say that they've kept it under
control. And I guess you could argue with the fact that they're playing games
and like turning around, like when they have the results of these tests,
they are putting players in quarantine, but they're figuring out a way to know
where the tests are still coming back negative. But then there's this long incubation
period. I don't know whether you call what the NFL is doing effective.
It seems effective for their purposes. I don't I don't know that it's safe.
I would argue that it's not, but that is the concern here.
I'm not saying the NBA's wrong. Like, the reality is that the NBA
season was going to happen. It just happened inside a bubble. They weren't
going to cancel the NBA season again or wait and do another three month bubble.
So looking at it through the lens of that reality, and I hope
this doesn't come off through callous because I'm honestly trying not to be. I'm
just hopeful that nothing goes wrong because they are dealing with a whole different set
of circumstances that are beyond their control compared to what they were going through in
Disney. I'm cautiously optimistic about how the NBA will be able to handle things
because I think that the league as a whole has earned the benefit of the
doubt after how well it handled the bubble. I mean, there was not
a single positive test within it. The rules were strict, the testing was
done properly and with sufficient volume, and you know, we saw the NHL
also have similar success in a bubble environment. But obviously, as you mentioned,
you can't ask players to stay sequestered once again for an entire season.
So given the success that the league has already had with a bubble environment,
and then the fact that it will become the third major American league to attempt
to have this travel based schedule, and we'll be able to take the positives
and the negatives from what MLB and the NFL have done. Again, like
just I'm cautiously optimistic on it. We saw in baseball we had the initial
outbreaks from the Miami Marlins and the Saint Louis Cardinals that created pushedback schedules and
created so many double headers and stuff. Obviously, you can't have double headers
in basketball. That just wouldn't fly. But I think that the NBA will
have learned that you need to budget some time for makeup games later on in
the season. The fact that they're already attempting to limit travel. I'm sure
that there are other things that are under consideration that we just aren't being appraised
about quite yet. And then with the NFL, you know, we've seen
teams consistently have smaller outbreaks. We saw it with Cam Newton and the New
England Patriots. Right now we're seeing it with the Las Vegas Raiders who had
Trent Brown and the rest of their offensive line through contract contact tracing. We're
all sent home to ensure safety and to make sure that there wasn't going to
be a more significant outbreak, you know, just seeing other leagues do things
like that and taking away the proper lessons from it. You know, if
there is a league that deserves that deserves that benefit of the doubt, like
it should be the NBA at this point. Yeah, I would agree with
you on that front. And look by December, like maybe they're something drastically
different with the level of the idiot testing. I mean, they're going to
have access to the testing. That's a whole other morality issue where it's if
they're going to have access to testing frequency that the normal citizens still doesn't.
That was something that people talked about as they were entering the bubble, but
for the NBA specifically, when you're just looking at if the assumption is they're
going to play the season, these are the circumstances under which they are playing
it, I would say that they have earned the benefit of the doubt there.
The other thing to wrapp our heads around though, was just how soon
this season is coming. Like that's just was gonna say, like if we
put aside the health concerns and acknowledging that those still exist regardless of how well
they're going to handle it. There are other concerns with this schedule, And
we were talking before we started recording about rookies. You know, like they're
going to be drafted on November eighteenth. If they're traded, they might not
officially be traded until a month after that date, which means that three days
later they could be playing basketball games. So like, I feel like the
quality of play could be pretty rough this season, especially if players are testing
positive and you're turning to backups more often and just knowing that teams are going
to want to still give run to their big investments on these young players.
But there isn't that get up to speed acclamation period for guys who haven't played
competitive basketball games since March with a limited training camp. If there is even
a preseason with this condensed schedule like it could essentially be like pick up basketball
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I want to be hopeful just because of how entertaining the bubble play was.
It didn't feel like they're you know, at the beginning with the referees
and then all the fouling, but it never really felt for a long period
of time that the players or the team's missed a beat. You are dealing
with rookies then, however, though, and you're also dealing with, like,
let's talk about free agency signings if there are any you know, fairly
big moves like they're playing for new teams and like that can have or warrant
in acclamation period as well. One thing I want to ask you, do
you think the teams that did not go to Disney now or maybe even let's
say the ones that only played in the eight games they're looking at Phoenix or
Washington, did they have an edge over the teams that went deeper into the
postseason, just because of how quick this turnaround is. My guess is that
the teams that played in the bubble but didn't make the playoffs are going to
have the biggest advantage, But it's probably just a marginal one, and it's
you know, it feels like this past season was the one that, really,
more than others in the recent past, enforced the idea that the regular
season and the postseason are entirely different entities in the NBA, That a dominant
regular sea and team like the Milwaukee Bucks might be schemable in the playoffs.
That a very well coached team with depth and lots of upper end talents like
the Miami Heat might be able to just experiment a little bit during the regular
season knowing that it can turn it on a little bit in the postseason.
So I feel like by the midway point of this expected seventy two games season,
everyone's going to be in the same same boat. Maybe someone like the
Phoenix Suns that got the benefit of more recent play and gets to experience a
little more continuity and confidence without exhausting itself during the deep postseason run might have
a marginal advantage at the start of the season, but I don't think that
that's going to be like a big enough factor for us to really take it
into consideration when we're making predictions and figuring out who are award picks and playoff
picks are going to be. What do you think, like, how quickly
does free agency have to happen? Now there's the draft is November eighteenth?
Did they just started on November nineteenth? Selfishly, I hope that doesn't happen
because I'd like a little bit of time to breathe with all the work that
we'll be doing up to and through the draft, Like I just need a
moment to catch my breath after that. To have to pivot directly into free
agency, which is arguably our second busiest time of the year behind the trade
deadline, I would say would just be absolutely wild. But it's also like,
well, if you put it, push it a week, like all
of a sudden, that's almost December, and that's three weeks before the season,
basically three or four weeks. This is just so hard to wrap my
head around. I think that there should be and probably will be a gap
of at least a week, just because it's asking too much of front offices
to go into a draft environment that's already more uncertain than in previous years,
just because players haven't played as many games and haven't played recently, and you
can't do the in front of the team workouts that you're used to doing,
and you're getting the combined results direct from the league and all that. Like,
just going through that uncertain process and not knowing who you're gonna land,
it would be unfair to ask them to immediately turn around and have to offer
contracts to players like you at least need to give them time to reshape their
priorities and lists of needs to address based on the results of the draft,
because it's always such a tumultuous time that that quick of a turnaround would create
more bad money contracts that I don't think the league ever really wants to see.
Yeah, that's a good point. The final issue here, the All
Star Game is now in jeopardy, which is slated to be hosted in Indiana.
That's you know, that has to become a casualty of the season if
you're not going to have fans in there anyway, Like the NBA might be
okay with that. I would be curious what happens with Indiana hosting the game,
Like, do you now all of a sudden push back the All Star
schedules a year for each city. Do you pick a few years down the
lines that it doesn't impact where the other All Star Games are scheduled for?
Does this just screw and yet to indefinitely? That would be something to consider
for the Indiana market specifically. But there's a chance we just don't have an
an All Star Game, which I think you're just more I'd be more worried
about, Like, can we get through this season without just any catastrophe would
have to be the goal. And if if the All Star Game is the
collateral damage of that, that sucks for Indiana. But if they weren't going
to be able to have fans in the arena anyway, I don't really know
how big of a loss then the All Star Game ends up being. I
do wonder what it would do to contract incentives, you know, if there
are any salary contingencies that are based on All Star appearances or anything. I'm
not aware if those are in any current contracts, but if they are,
like that would have to be something to consider. But yeah, Okay,
like what a loss that would be. Well, that was pretty dismissive.
That was more dismissive than I was, right. I mean, like,
who cares like it's it's fun, I guess to watch a game being played
with no defense whatsoever. But there was defense in this past All Star Game.
I think that a little bit, a little bit. Yeah, the
new format worked well for that, But still like, until the NBA and
I'll get up on my soapbox here, until the NBA expands rosters commensurate to
the growing size of the league, I don't care about the All Star Game,
Like I still just hate the fact that, you know, there were
twelve twelve player rosters for the Eastern Conference in the Western Conference back in the
nineteen seventies when the league had had a dozen and a little bit more teams
without cycling through so many on the back ends of the rosters. And it's
still twelve players per team in twenty twenty, even though we have thirty teams
with expanded rosters and more players on the back end. It's just it no
longer represents the same X percentage of the league the top X percentile, and
it should so until they expand like having fifteen all stars per conference. I
just don't give a shit. Firm but fair. Let's get into these franchise
rankings for the past decade. Do you want to take us through the methodology
just behind it, like how the rolling team ratings work a little bit before
we eviserate you and I say we because the listeners are right here with me.
We have our swords out as you should. Yeah, I mean,
this was a this was a fun project that you know, we tried to
make very clear on the Twitter thread that was meant to be viewed as a
baseline more than anything else, just because the methodology isn't perfect. All the
categories are rated the same, are ranked the same, and weighted the same,
so you know, if if you are frustrated that your team is fourteenth
instead of fifteenth, then they were separated by a minuscule margin. Like remember
it's just a baseline. But yeah, So we first the rolling team ratings
that we use at NBA Math. They essentially look at margin of victory adjusted
for pace of play and the difficulty of the opponent, also giving extra credit
to teams that are playing back to back games just because of increased scheduled difficulty
there. So the Rolling Team ratings show a one number estimate of how well
a team has played over its past twenty games is exactly average, anything above
is better, so on and so forth. So four are three of our
categories. Of the six that we used for these rankings were based on the
Rolling team ratings. We looked at going back to the twenty ten eleven season
through the end of this last campaign. We were only interested in that last
decade, and we looked at their average score in the Rolling Team rankings.
They're eighty two highest games, simulating the peak season, if you will,
even though those didn't have to be consecutive numbers. The true peak so the
highest twenty games stretch that they had at any point during the last decade.
Then we looked at their win percentage, the number of playoff appearances that they
made, and how many titles they want. So the idea was to recognize
regular season six how high the peaks of teams rose, just because it's better
from a fan experience to have a team that peaks really, really high than
to have a team that is consistently good, even if they tend to lead
to about the same amount of success. Just that entertainment factor. And then
we also wanted to give credit to making the postseason and doing well in the
postseason, so we took the Z scores in all six of those categories to
account for how why the disparities were between ranks and not just where they ranked.
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I dig it. So do you want to take us through the results?
Yeah? So I want to go through the top ten. I don't think
we should go through all thirty here and then just ask you if you had
any surprises within that top ten, and then if there were any franchises you
were surprised weren't in the top ten. So at number ten, we had
the Dallas Mavericks, who have their one title, the one that they won
over the Miami Heat and their first year of that Big Three era that was
so surprising and led to Mark Cuban eviscerating Skip Bayliss, which remains one of
the most satisfying moments of the decade. We had the consistently success full Indiana
Pacers, who were one of a handful of teams that made the playoffs nine
out of ten seasons. We had the Boston Celtics, who do not get
to count their two thousand and eight title in this but we're consistently good,
another team that made the playoffs nine times out of those ten years. We
had the Toronto Raptors at number seven, who had the title in twenty nineteen
and have been another consistently excellent franchise despite the playoff disappointments that they have endured.
We have the Los Angeles Clippers at number six, and the Houston Rockets
at number five. The Oklahoma City Thunder are at number four. Miami Heat,
who won two titles during the Big Three era and made the finals this
past season, are at number three. Then there was a gigantic gap.
The gap between number three and number two was about as big as the gap
between number three and number ten. We had the San Antonio Spurs at number
two, even though they only won one title during the last decade as the
dynastic era of that franchise kind of petered out a little bit. And I
don't think it will surprise anyone given their titles and the ridiculous peaks that they
achieved with Steph Curry, Kevin Durant, Clay Thompson, and Draymond Green Golden
State Warriors checking in at number one. Yeah, that's not a surprise.
I was. So let's start with a team that I was shocked, wasn't
I guess? Closer to the top ten. The Portland Trailblazers being at seventeen
this decade were a little bit surprising to me. That was surprising to me
as well, And it really came down and that's why in the introduction of
this segment, I wanted to emphasize why that peak mattered, because that's where
they fell short. So in terms of winning percentage, they won fifty four
point eight percent of their regular season games over the last decade, which ranks
tenth. They made the playoffs eight times, which is obviously impressive. There
were only four teams that made the playoffs more frequently. Their average score and
rolling team rating was tenth. They did not win a title, but that
the same is true of most franchises over the last decade. Where they fell
short was the eighty two game peak average and their true peak. In those
two categories they ranked twenty second and twenty third, respectively, which I think
feels pretty accurate to me. Where they were like them in the Memphis Grizzlies.
Really who checked it at number fifteen and was another team where I was
surprised they weren't a little bit higher. They are suffering for being consistently good
without ever being great. I mean, if you think back on the last
decade of Portland Trail Portland Trailblazers basketball, is there a team that really stands
out as being like a legitimate title contender. They made the Western Conference Finals
in twenty eighteen nineteen. They have a handful of fifty win seasons. They
peaked at fifty four wins in twenty thirteen fourteen and then lost in the Western
Conference finals. But these LaMarcus Aldridge and Damian Lillard led teams, like they
never really established themselves as the class of the Western Conference, and without doing
that at any point, or even having a twenty games stretch within a season
where it seemed like that would be a possibility, that that's why they fell
short. Yeah, that one of the misstapportunity I think it was twenty fourteen
twenty fifteen is that when West Matthews ruptured his achilles toward the end of the
year. Yeah, that was big for them. But still they've had the
tenth highest winning percentage for the decade among teams, which among teams, which
is incredibly impressive. I don't know that I was. I guess another some
of the pushback would come from the Lakers being not they maybe not even not
in the top ten, but they were nineteen on the rankings. Since I
have the you know, the full thirty right in front of me, I
like that makes sense to me if they just haven't been great this decade.
This season they won a championship, but there was a lot of hardship on
the court for them before that, and this look the decade starts like after
they won their last championship with Kobe, and then from there it's like kind
of a quick path to when he ruptured his achilles in twenty thirteen, and
everything was downhill from there for them. For they were out before that happened,
too well, they were he first of all, he was playing out
his mom when that happened. I remember that that season he was playing so
well, but that team was underachieving. They was injuries to Palcasol and Steve
Nash, and then Dwight Howard wasn't at full strength, and then there was
the fact that he was Dwight Howard and getting along with Kobe Bryant. That
stuff mattered. But like they've had I can't tell whether I think they should
be lower, is what I'm getting at at numbers nineteen, or if I
feel like I'm surprised that they're that low. They're probably just where they need
to be. If anything, I might be surprised that they're not a little
bit lower. But then the thing is like, well, they were still
a playoff team in twenty twenty thirteen, and they did just win a title,
and they weren't absolutely awful last season. I don't know where I land
on where they've fallen. It felt pretty accurate to me. I do think
it's important to emphasize that we did not give any extra credit to the most
recent seasons. So even though the Los Angeles Lakers just won a title,
that doesn't matter anymore than the Dallas Mavericks winning a title in twenty eleven,
because we are considering all of the seasons equal. The Lakers and the Cavaliers,
who ranked eleventh, were the only two franchises the won a title and
did not make the top ten. But the Cavaliers had more good years and
a higher peak. Because even this title winning team, it never really like
ascended to Juggernaut's status. You know, it played very well throughout the playoffs,
but at no point was it like this is like a ridiculous historic team.
So if we look through the ranks and the six categories, I think
it becomes more obvious why the Lakers weren't able to rise any higher than nineteenth
in average rolling team rating. They were twentieth ninety nine point three seven one,
so on average, they were below that league break even point. Their
eighty two game peak ranked fifteenth, their true peak ranked twenty first. Their
winning percentage of forty five point one was eighteenth, and nineteen teams made the
playoffs more frequently than they did because they only advanced to the postseason four times
in the last decade. Really, without that title being included in the methodology,
they would have ranked far lower. The Knicks coming in at number twenty
two was kind of shocking to me. It feels like those mellow seasons are
doing some heavy lifting for them in this and I just, I honestly would
have thought that, you know, the Wizards being at twenty four, I
would have thought that they finished ahead of the Knicks, even having Brooklyn at
twenty five, I don't thought the Knicks finished below then. I'm not even
trying to dump on the Knicks here. You know, maybe you could put
them ahead of the Suns. I'd listened to the Timberwolves, the Hornets,
sure, but even there were some good Hornets teams mix in with that decade.
I was surprised that the Knicks evaded bottom five status. Is basically what
I'm getting at. Honestly, the team that surprised me most was the Phoenix
Suns being twenty six. I would have expected them to be lower because they,
along with the Sacramento Kings, are one of only two teams in the
league that failed to make the playoffs even once in the last decade, and
like that has to matter. So the Suns are carried by their peak being
relatively high at the bottom of these rankings. It checked in at twenty second
in the league. But other than that, like their resume is so it's
not even nondescript, it's just bad. So that was that was a surprise
for me, where it's like wow, like they're they're actually ahead of the
Timberwolves, the Hornets, the Pistons, and the Kings. The Kings aren't
earning a surprise. At thirty. They ranked dead last in every single category,
so like they were the very obvious last place finisher And I'm sorry,
Kings fan, like I hope it gets better for u. Daron Fox is
super fun and it seems like they could be a playoff threat just like every
other team in the Western Conference going forward. But this last decade was really
bad. Recency bias is funny too in that way where I'm looking at the
top and to me it's like, oh, the Bucks aren't in the top
ten, but then then looking at the decade in full that that kind of
makes sense. I think this what I think it gets right is the Toronto
Raptors being at number seven. They don't receive enough credit for the longevity of
their success. They're you know, they became postseason punchlines a lot with the
Kyle Awry Demarto was in partnership. But since twenty thirteen twenty fourteen, they've
basically been a fifty win team every single year and that's really hard to do
in the NBA. So with all the turnover that takes place, and look,
they've taken some swings themselves. They went after the Quaie trade and they
lost Kauai. That they're being at number seven, is that that feels right
where you could be like, oh, would you put them ahead of the
Clippers or the Rockets. Yeah, maybe, but that they're in that conversation
at all is really kind of a testament to what they've been able to do
there over the past specifically like seven years. Great. Great. It kind
of feels like they're like the souped up version of the Portland Trailblazers where they
don't have like the super high peak. Even that title winning team like it
was, it was a very very good, fundamentally excellent and deep team,
but again, it wasn't like reaching that Warrior's peak or that Spurs peak where
it was just like the epitome of basketball perfection. So their true peak actually
ranks twentieth and this methodology, but they're so good in the other category that
they were still carried into the top ten. It's like, I do think
it's like what the Portland Trail Blazers in Memphis Grizzlies kind of hope to achieve,
whereby being so consistently good, not necessarily consistently great, that you just
hope that everything clicks for that one season and it's magical. I'm looking at
their title seasons specifically, I wonder how much that has to do with the
restraint that they carry themselves with when looking at how quiet Leonard was playing,
and even they dealt with some injuries that year. But yeah, if you
put the Blazers in the Eastern Conference, like maybe they have a similar arc
that the Blazers did. I would still argue that last year's thrount a Raptors
team, which is a better version than anything we've seen from the Blazers in
the past decade, regardless of the conference you're in. Totally agreed. Was
there any teams that really stood out like to you, like going since this
wasn't something that necessarily required your you know, I made funny at the beginning,
but this was not surely subjective. Was there anything that was surprising or
even disappointing to you? Maybe that the Jazz weren't a little higher, just
since they've been so consistently good over the last half decade, But no,
I mean it really with the exception of like those minor discrepancies, now it
was it was fun to look back at the rankings and be like, wow,
like the Bulls are twelfth, how did that happen? Oh? Yeah,
like we get to include the Derek Rose MVP season and the peak joke
of Noah year, and like that team was really good, and it was
nice just to like give credit to those those organizations that were so successful at
the beginning of this past decade, in addition to the most recent ones.
But I think I think the Suns remain my biggest surprise where I was,
you know, I was originally going through them, and you know, just
to to increase the enjoyment for myself as I do this, I tend to
scroll down on my spreadsheets and reveal one at a time as I'm working through
this and like formulating the Twitter threads and stuff. So I was like,
when are the Sun's going to show up? Because I hadn't seen the results
until I got to them at twenty six and I was like, wow,
like that that was just not expected at all. But I do I ultimately,
I hope that this was something that people enjoyed and brought back either good
or bad memories. And I'm considering trying to do something similar for all of
NBA history, since I have that data already and it might just be interesting
to see, if you know, using this exact same methodology, Are the
Lakers number one? Are the Boston Celtics number one? Because we're going to
give even weight to the Bill Russell led teams that we're winning even when the
NBA had fewer than a dozen teams in it, as we are to the
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