It’s that time in the NBA off-season when, absent much news, pundits try to paint a picture of what the season might look like. They’ll do it again when camp opens a month from now and then again when the season starts.
ESPN’s Basketball Power Index (BPI) came out Tuesday. As the worldwide leader explains, it’s “our predictive metric that rates every team by how many points per game better or worse it is than the average NBA team.” Based on that ESPN extrapolates wins and playoff chances.
In that calculation, the Nets will be -3.