In addition to player rankings galore, it’s NBA futures gambling season, where you can plunk down money against your team’s results this upcoming season, and Las Vegas oddsmakers will take it and never give it back.
Those mysterious oddsmakers released a bunch of numbers this week, and if you’re a gambling noob like me (and general non-practitioner of math in all forms besides “how many slices of pizza is too many to eat”) they don’t really mean much.
But! For those that do like to throw money away (er, invest their money in high-risk scenarios, I mean) these numbers are, indeed very important.