August really is the worst month on the calendar, at least when you’re covering the NBA. There’s not a lot going on so the big media players resort to things like ranking players and predicting win totals. For little media players like us... that means we have to follow up on their inane lists and predictions with rebuttals of our own! When really, shouldn’t we all be on vacation, enjoying a beach or a cottage or exploring a new city or something?
Alas, the content mill must ever churn. I promised myself I wouldn’t get caught up in “player rankings season” this time out (too many years of DeMar DeRozan slander have forever tainted the exercise for me), but when it comes to team predictions.