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Ranking NBA's best-of-the-rest teams
Pro Basketball Talk on NBC Sports podcast
English - March 03, 2022 10:58 - 1 hour - 59.8 MB - ★★★★ - 36 ratingsBasketball Sports basketball sports nba entrepreneurship Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Five teams have emerged as consensus favorites to win the 2022 NBA title: Phoenix Suns, Golden State Warriors, Philadelphia 76ers, Milwaukee Nets and Brooklyn Nets.
Does anyone else belong in that group?
Eight other teams have at least a 98% chance of making the playoffs, according to The Ringer:
Miami Heat (41-22)Chicago Bulls (39-23)Cleveland Cavaliers (36-26)Boston Celtics (37-27)Memphis Grizzlies (43-20)Utah Jazz (39-22)Dallas Mavericks (37-25)Denver Nuggets (36-26)On the latest ProBasketballTalk Podcast, Dan Feldman and Dan Devine of The Ringer – who recently wrote an excellent article on the Heat's playoff hopes – rank those eight best-of-the-rest teams: