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Looking at the amount of crazy starting rosters this season, it seems difficult to think of an equivalent to it in recent times:

  • Denver returning to defend their title with Jokic and Murray
  • Suns with KD, Booker, and Beal
  • Heat looking for the Finals runback
  • Bucks with Giannis and Dame
  • Spurs continuing their legacy of lanky stoics with generational talent in Wembanyama
  • Blazers with Scoot and Sharpe
  • boston celtics
  • Almost 40-year-old LeBron still being a top 10 player alongside AD
  • Warriors with Chris Paul

When was the last time a season showed as much promise as this? And which of these teams has the most potential to live up to the hype?

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people got sick of GSW vs CAVS but i feel like those years were stacked, like the Clippers had enough firepower to win a chip and couldnt even get to the conference finals. same with the Rockets, given the east was a bit weaker, but damn the West was crazy

[–] dys0n_giddey@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Never.

The league is stacked and we are all the better for it

[–] DJBabyB0kCh0y@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

We're on a trend. Great players are playing longer. The last generation of great players are still great. In the 90s KD, Steph and LeBron would be washed up or severely diminished by now. Also as the league got more global they've opened up their talent pool by a couple billion people. And now arguably 4 of the top 5 in the league are international players.

[–] pskill43@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Blazers will be one of the worse teams in the league and doesn’t really belong in your list

[–] Cervicals@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’ll just get more stacked each season until expansion dilutes the talent a little bit

[–] JoJonesy@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah it's about time they went to 32 teams tbh

[–] honestnbafan@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

A couple of the teams you mentioned aren't actually stacked lol

[–] RVAIsTheGreatest@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

This is the most talent the league has ever possessed at one time. I'm absolutely stoked. Let the Games begin.