Last Season: 56-26, 2nd seed in the East
Off-season Losses: C Bismack Biyombi (free agent/Orlando), PF Luis Scola (free agent/Brooklyn), PF James Johnson (free agent/Miami)
Off-season Stock: They still have CoJo, so TAKE MY MONEY.
League Pass Team?: In theory? Sure. In practice? No.
The Raps reached several milestones last season. They won over 50 games for the first time in franchise history and also reached the conference finals for the first time, whereupon they took the eventual champion Cavaliers to six games. My initial instinct was to give Cory Joseph 100 percent of the credit for their breakthrough, but after weeks and weeks of poring over the analytical data, doing exhaustive film study and conducting hundreds of extensive interviews (both on the record and off) with players, coaches, scouts and personnel executives within the organization and throughout the league, my objective conclusion was that in reality Joseph was only deserving of 93.