There’s only a handful of teams that can win an NBA championship. That’s the old adage at least. For the past several years, the Boston Celtics have been on the cusp of the discussion, teetering back and forth between the Kevin Durant-era Warriors’ greatest nemesis and a team with too much in-fighting to make anything happen.
This off-season was a sort of NBA hard reset. Golden State was dismantled, left in its wake an injury-riddled roster that is currently being led by Alec Burks and Eric Pashcall. Anthony Davis joining a healthy LeBron James on the Lakers creates a duo that ranks as perhaps the league’s most daunting.