The what if is assuming that Philly will be worse off without Simmons, and the stats show Embbc plays better without Simmons and that Simmons is bad. 4 shots in the 4th quarter etc while getting 40mil a year bad. CP3 levels of bad.

Second paragraph refers to your steaming hot take that Charlotte will come in 6th in the East.

Considering how The Bulls, Cavs, and Pistons have gotten better now that pushes Charlotte from 10th to 13th

and Charlotte has lost their Center with no cap space to get a new one so they need to trade unless they want to start a sophomore. The oldest player on the roster is Terry Rozier and he was drafted in 2015 so its not like they have a veteran presence to school the pleb rookies.

Not only that but Hayward is still injured so that just a GIANT L.

There are definitely things I may not be considering but Charlotte isnt even a complete team yet filled with rooks I doubt Lamelo can single handedly get them to the Playoffs cleanly in 6th.. Trae couldnt do it 2 years ago, Neither could Doncic 2 years ago.

This post was edited by Crunkt on Aug 13 2021 12:25pm

Dumb.

Why you rank Knigs so low

Power rankings are adjusted after trades not before

Kings/10
Sacramento/10

Not the Kings, the New York Knigs.

They can finish off worse than last year easily while “getting better” through free agency as they over performed and the teams around them got better. Them actually being dangerous is banking on the development of Barrett and Quickly or some contributions from Toppin on top of that. I like RJ but he’s not ready to be the guy on a contender nor is Randle. Evan and Kemba ain’t it

Bucks and Nets gonna be great.

Both team got MVPs in Giannis and KD

Rather bold statement

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