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20 NBA Predictions for 2020: Here's What We Said Would Happen Back in 2016

In November of 2016, the Sports Illustrated staff made predictions about what it thought the NBA would look like in 2020. The predictions ranged from how LeBron James would be performing and where Russell Westbrook would be playing to if the NBA would have robot referees and if people would still use NBA Twitter.

No one did, nor could they have, predicted exactly what would have happened to the league this season. But amid the NBA’s hiatus, here’s a look back at some of what the SI staff got right and what didn’t exactly go as we thought it would:

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