Fivethirtyeight.com posted their record projections for the upcoming NBA season last week, and in an ongoing trend, the Spurs are not expected to do well. In fact, this may be the lowest they have been projected to finish yet, with just 37 wins and a 20% chance of making the playoffs based on this particular formula.
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As Jacob Goldstein of BBall Index recently discussed with PtR’s Bruno Passos after his model predicted the Spurs would win just 39 games, it is important to remember that these projections are based on mathematical formulas and cannot take certain aspects into account that the human mind can.