Ah, the Southeast Division, the NBA’s unwanted stepchild. A division where one must ask which team is the least bad rather than which team is the best. Last season, 4 of the 5 teams in the Southeast finished below .500, with the Orlando Magic being the division’s sole representative in the 2019 NBA playoffs.
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Not pretty! But every season is a clean slate, right? Let’s take a look at what these teams have done to improve their situation (or not so much).
*Vegas over/unders are an aggregate of three sources: DraftKings, FanDuel and PointsBet.