Now that the annual slate of Christmas games has come and gone, signaling the start of what many consider to be the real NBA season, we have ourselves what I like to call a “significant sample size of data” to evaluate how things have been going to far. Kenny Atkinson has played around with a lot of different lineups, and with the injury to Caris Levert and emergence of Rodions Kurucs, it’ll be interesting to see how things start to shake out rotation-wise in the next couple of months.
Here are some lineups that are interesting and have implications going forward (notice there’s not a single Shabazz Napier in sight.