Inside the NBA’s 2025-26 Gamble: Which Teams Will Rise to Glory or Crash and Burn?
If everything falls apart: Honestly, it feels like the only “everything falls apart” possibility would include Tatum’s rehab not going off without a hitch, and I don’t want to entertain that possibility. This portion is over!
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Brooklyn Nets
Best-case scenario: Jordi Fernández continues to coax meaningful development out of the gaggle of 22-and-under players under his care, with one (or more) of Egor Dëmin, Nolan Traoré, Ben Saraf or Kobe Bufkin popping enough on the ball to inspire confidence that Brooklyn’s got a real path to a point guard of the future. That development, however, isn’t meaningful enough to produce anything more than the worst record in the NBA, guaranteeing a top-five pick and a chance at the type of potentially transformational homegrown talent the Nets have lacked since before Barclays Center even opened. Michael Porter Jr.’s podcast mic breaks and he can’t find another one, no matter how many thousands of dollars he spends on Ubers.


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