There’s always a point in a season where it feels as if enough time has passed to start making some more definitive calls about what’s to come. It’s around this time that I start to think about what the next championship-winning team will look like. It’s a question which very few people can definitively answer come playoff time, never mind before Christmas. However, my mind will really start to dig into what sort of team has the perfect makeup to get themselves some hardware at the end of it all.
Last season, for example, I thought it would merely be the team with the most stars — the Brooklyn Nets were the most obvious name to my mind — that would be the one to be parading round their town, hanging up a banner and collecting their rings.