🏀 NBA Seedings Check! 12 Games In!

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When do we start talking about seedings? Is 12 games too early? Probably is, but let’s go for it! Two teams that are the surprises in the young NBA Season!

Gonna start off with this…

Guess where the Eastern Conference’s three-seeded Orlando Magic would rank in the West. We are just 12 games into the season, so the disparity between East and West can’t be that big, right? The Magic would be the 11 seed! If the season ended they would not even make the play-in tournament!

We usually see this In January or February, but we’re getting this right out of the gate this season. The 5-6 Brooklyn Nets are one game back from getting a home playoff series. Yes, it’s only been 12 games, but it’s interesting to look at these sort of things. As more West teams play West teams, this will slowly tighten up, but the overall pattern of the West being overall a significantly better conference than the East still remains.

It doesn’t help that the Bucks are 3-8 and the Sixers are 2-8, both just two losses away from being the worst team in the Eastern Conference.

Alright, enough of the doom and gloom, let’s talk about the big stories. There are two of them. Are we in 2018? Because the Golden State Warriors are 9-2!

I’m watching their game against the Mavs, and they are an absolute army. They have their leader and then a bunch of guys ready to go to war. They played 11 different guys! That’s unheard of! But that’s what they’ve been doing all year, and it’s working. Their only losses have been to the 12-0 Cavs, and to the Clippers in a game where Steph went down with an injury. They are beating good teams! What’s the ceiling for this team? I have no idea, but the Warriors have had a phenomenal start to this season and yesterday was on different in Klay Thompson’s return!

The second headline would be the aforementioned Cleveland Cavs! We’ve talked about them already in our Stump’s, but NBA teams don’t go on streaks like that. You always lose a close game here or there. Hopefully, this isn’t the jinx but the Cavs have started 12-0! They are the biggest surprise so far in the young NBA season!

A stump story about the Warriors and Cavs. My goodness! The more things change…the more things remain the same!

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