Rockets: After becoming a "rebuild squad" and selling off their best players in hope of a fresh start in the future years, Houston bets it all and gets James Harden. So now the Rockets have Jeremy Lin (which I still am not sold on at all), Harden, and some other people. Are they rebuilding? Nope. They have no real draft picks in the recent future. Are they elite? Hell no. Harden may go off for oodles of points a game, but the players around him are still the same. My verdict, The Rockets are setting themselves up for the same kind of "good team but not great" mediocrity that they have had for the past half a decade. PRETENDERS.
Thunder: I have seen a lot of reports lately that say the Thunder aren't clicking completely and that something is wrong with their system all the sudden. Well, I say that these people aren't looking at the facts, which are:
1. We are like three games into the season.
2. Your two star players were just ripped away from your third star player in a trade.
3. In that trade, you received players that aren't as good.
4. It has been a week since the trade.
Come on folks, lets give it time. Verdict: CONTENDERS.
Nuggets: The blockbuster trade that brought Iggy to Denver had huge ramifications throughout the league, like a rippling hair in the stache of Adam Morrison. Iggy seems to be a perfect fit in Denver, and the Nuggets brought him in it for cheap, which is always a plus. There is no doubt that the Nuggets will be a contender this year, but I can't see them beating a Laker team that crushed them last year because of their bigs, and has only gotten more bigger now because of a trade they themselves facilitated. I don't think this will be the year, but with an aging Kobe and Gasol, as well as an impatient Howard, their time as kings of the west might be on the horizon. Verdict: CONTENDERS.
Break it down now y'all.
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