The NBA regular season starts tomorrow! But it’s not tomorrow yet, which means we’re still in NBA preseason rankings season.
The beautiful minds at FiveThirtyEight are the latest to join the wave, and as is typical with FiveThirtyEight, their rankings are less subjective and more data-based.
Rather than explain their methodology, I’ll jump right to the important part:
FiveThirtyEight ranks the Toronto Raptors as the likely Eastern Conference champions, with the best chance at the best record in the East, and the second-best chance of any team to make the NBA Finals.