In the night from Tuesday to Wednesday the match between “Cleveland” and “Boston” kicks off the 72nd season in the National basketball Association.
The offseason in the NBA was one of the most intense in recent years. Which is only the exchange of Kyrie Irving from Cleveland to Boston, and the transition Chris Paul of the clippers in Houston. Emerged another trend is that the stars don’t want to play in the weak East and prefer to play in a competitive environment in the West. So, Jimmy Butler was replaced by “Chicago” in Minnesota, Carmelo Anthony moved from the “new York” “Oklahoma”, from “Indiana” went Paul George and former leader of the “Atlanta” Paul Millsap as a free agent signed a contract with “Denver”.
The reigning NBA champion Golden state in the summer extended his contract with Kevin Durant and Stephen Curry, and retained all the key roleplayers. The warriors, with four stars in the starting five, suited to the season in the status of the unconditional favourite.
In the new season, Golden state will face high competition: the main stimuli champion promises to be the trio of Westbrook-George-Anthony from Oklahoma, star Duo of harden-Paul from Houston, stable, “San Antonio” and unpredictable “Minnesota”, with the arrival of the Butler, at last, ripened to fight for the playoffs.
In the East LeBron James and without Kyrie Irving, but Izea Thomas will lead Cleveland to a fourth consecutive final. The main opponent of the hegemony of the conference will be “Boston” summer “Celtics” in addition to the exchange Irving signed leader “Utah” Gordon Hayward took in the draft promising striker Jason Tatum. Washington, Toronto and Milwaukee do not reach the two favorites, but they can create problems for them.
After dropping Joel Bolomba of “Utah” the only Ukrainian in the NBA became the center of “Phoenix” Oleksiy Lang. For his upcoming season will be the determining factor in his career, because next summer he goes on the free agent market for the first adult contract. The preseason showed that Lane is locked and loaded and ready to go to a new level.
The East – zone playoffs (forecast hronika.info):
1. Boston, 2. Cleveland, 3. Washington, 4. Toronto, 5. Milwaukee, 6. Miami, 7. Charlotte, 8. Philadelphia.
Western conference zone playoffs (forecast hronika.info):
1. Golden State, 2. Houston, 3. Oklahoma, 4. San Antonio, 5. Mn, 6. The Los Angeles Clippers, 7. Denver, 8. Utah
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