Uncovering the Hidden Clues in NBA Preseason That Could Rewrite the 2025-26 Season Dynamics
In the last five years, 36 of the 50 teams (72%) that finished top 10 in net rating during the preseason ended up making the playoffs. Twenty of those 50 teams (40%) even went on to win at least one playoff series.
Meanwhile, only 22 of the 50 teams (44%) that finished in the bottom 10 in net rating advanced to the playoffs, and only nine of those teams (18%) won at least one playoff series.
With this in mind, let’s look at the top 10 teams in net rating from this preseason.

If recent history continues, we can project that seven of these 10 teams will make the playoffs. We can probably remove the Brooklyn Nets and New Orleans Pelicans from this list, as both those teams are projected to be bottom-feeders in their respective conferences (ranking 29th and 26th in preseason TRACR, respectively).Â



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