Contender or Pretender?

[Rizzo]

Man I really wish I was able to sign Westbrook because to get a player like that in my lineup this late in the game would have been huge.

[emplep7]

Man I really wish I was cool enough to trade for Terry "God Himself" Rozier because to get a player like that in my lineup this late in the game would have been huge.

Don't worry, I fixed it for you Adam.

[Flaming Homer]

lol

[Andrewu91]

Really good article.

To be honest, all teams would have to be considered contenders I guess. There's probably a couple of games separating all of them but most teams are coasting on purpose so when the serious stuff rolls around, rotations will tighten, minutes will grow and I expect we'll see some differences. Maybe not the Rockets as they had to come from a fair way back to get into this mix.

I think we're really well positioned. We've had the best record in the league a lot of this season (6-6 recently has dropped us back a bit) but we've monitored minutes, got our young guys some burn and have an all star returning so I like where we are. We haven't had an injury free run since we won the title and no disrespect to OKC but we beat them last season with Nurkic and Westbrook who both will be present this year. That's how it plays out though as the Suns lost Austin the year we won so it'll play out however it's meant to.

No disrespect taken. Injury free team is the team that usually wins it all