Title: Bold NBA predictions for 2025: Thunder turn title-favourites after trade
Date: December 28, 2024
Original Source: Sportsnet
Synopsis: In my latest at Sportsnet, I teamed up with Michael Grange to make a few a bold predictions for the year 2025 in basketball.
The NBA season isn’t quite at the halfway point, but with three months of games already played and the new year approaching, it seems like a good time to look ahead and make some bold predictions for the season remaining based on what we’ve seen so far.
There have been plenty of surprises: Did anyone forecast the Cleveland Cavaliers as the best team in the East? Did anyone anticipate that Philadelphia would be one of the worst? Or that the Milwaukee Bucks would be one of the worst and one of the best in the space of three months?
There have been other pre-season predictions that have panned out well. If you were one of the many to anticipate that the Oklahoma City Thunder would be the best team in the Western Conference, take a bow. Similarly, if you were of the mind that Nikola Jokic would once again be leading the very short list of potential MVPs as he guns for his fourth win in five years.
But there is a lot of season left, which means there’s plenty of time to still be wrong about things:
Blake Murphy Sports Writing 