Each week during the 2021-22 NBA season, we will take a deeper dive into some of the league’s biggest storylines in an attempt to determine whether the trends are based more in fact or fiction moving forward.
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There is no NBA championship favorite
Call it East Coast bias, but there is a sense that the NBA championship picture is blurred, probably because the Eastern Conference features a handful of potential finalists.