Mat Issa
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- Sep 30, 2026
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The Timberwolves are the NBA’s ultimate boom-or-bust team (opens the original)
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The Wolves lowered their floor to raise their ceiling. Will it work? Normally, when a sportsbook, like FanDuel, sets a regular season win total, the team ends up right around that range. For instance, the Charlotte Hornets over/under win total is set at 37.5. Given that they are projected to be right on the fringes of the playoff/play-in picture in the Eastern Conference, it seems pretty likely that they will be in that 35-40 win ballpark. However, the Minnesota Timberwolves, who the Hornets tra
The Raptors are the best NBA team no one is talking about (opens the original)
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Don’t sleep on the Raptors as a championship contender. Take a quick look at FanDuel’s listed odds for the Eastern Conference Champion and you’ll see the defending-champion New York Knicks there at +340. After them, you have the Philadelphia 76ers (+400), Boston Celtics (+500), Detroit Pistons (+850), and Cleveland Cavaliers (+900) rounding out the top five. However, there is one team missing from that top five that may just be better than all of those championship hopefuls, and that is the Toro
Can the Knicks go back-to-back? These are New York’s biggest obstacles (opens the original)
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The NBA hasn’t seen a repeat champion in a long time. Do the Knicks have what it takes? The 2012 edition of the famed Madden game was graced by Peyton Hillis. He earned that honor after a season where he rushed for 1,177 yards and 11 touchdowns. What followed was a season where he missed six games, he ran for less than half as many yards (587), and only found the end zone three times. In fact, after his double-digit touchdown season, he only found pay dirt six more times for the rest of his care
The Lakers won the breakup with LeBron James, and they will be better than the Sixers (opens the original)
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The Lakers have a chance to be a top-5 team even after losing LeBron James. In the first episode of Season 3 of How I Met Your Mother, the primary storyline revolves around breakups, and the idea that every time two people split there is a winner and loser. If the 2026 offseason was HIMYM, the big breakup that occurred this offseason would be the divorce that transpired between the most storied franchise in league history (the Los Angeles Lakers) and (probably) its greatest player (LeBron James)
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