As ESPN does throughout the off-season, their resident numbers guy, Kevin Pelton, has attacked the win projections for next year for each NBA team. As KP points out, next season is a wide open one. There are what look to be some very good teams, but no out-and-out dominant squad (like the Warriors of most of the past five years). What’s more, the defending champion Toronto Raptors are not quite the team they were last season, which complicates things further. If nothing else, it makes for some interesting forecasting work.
So then, where do the Raptors stand after all of Pelton’s complicated statistical chicanery, which involves RPM and SCHOENE and more math than I care to address right now?