Inside the NBA’s 2025-26 Gamble: Which Teams Will Rise to Glory or Crash and Burn?

Inside the NBA’s 2025-26 Gamble: Which Teams Will Rise to Glory or Crash and Burn?

If everything falls apart: The vibe shift is short-lived. New coach Jordan Ott looks overmatched, the defense doesn’t come together, and Booker and Green mesh about as well as Book/KD/Beal did — which is to say, very badly. Add it all up, and the Suns, elevated levels of scrappiness aside, look like one of the worst teams in the West. And with their 2026 first-rounder leveraged to all hell, no tradable firsts through 2032 and $23 million worth of waived-and-stretched salary on their books for the next half-decade, they can’t even enjoy the fruits of the badness; the long walk through the desert is just starting.

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