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The NBA season / playoffs structure will continue to change. The NBA will have to decide on a next generation structure, as more tournaments / play-in's get added into the schedule.
Expansion is likely within that time frame. Most likely two teams in the west, and Minny moves to the eastern conference.
Every NBA franchise will have a GL team, and with expansion there will be more than 34 GL teams.
Average player height goes up an inch. Sengun is all-star. LeBron gets another ring.
Celtics will be chasing banner #21
Kings winning
Tyty Washington will average 8+ assists per game.
Lebron is still in the league entering his 9th prime at age 44
These comments are looking strangely circlejerky
The spurs will regret not going all in sooner. They will have one title with wemby when they could have had like 3
RemindMe! 5 Years
Seeing as I’m from the future I’ll help you guys out:
We start to see interest in pro sports slightly decline across the board as young people begin to prefer using rapidly improving generative AI to entertain themselves rather than deal with ad-ridden and timeout-ridden basketball/football broadcasts. Older people still follow the league out of habit and more wealthy people begin to watch broadcasts in VR which has just gotten to the level where it can put you courtside in a way that finally feels somewhat immersive. However the league finds ways to inject ads into those VR broadcasts which are a dealbreaker for many. The league hasn’t yet realized the optimal solution to this, which is ultimately just charging a shitload of money for commercial-free VR experiences.
Sports medicine continues to improve as well. You see more guys playing longer and having longer primes than 2010s players. Injury recovery time is further reduced. Some guys who are 29-30 now are slightly more athletic and spry than they should be. Several guys among the Steph/Russ/PG/Kawhi/KD/Harden/Klay/Dame generation of players are weirdly still in the league.
The game itself is increasingly unsatisfying to watch as analytics continue to choke the spontaneity and creativity out of it and commercials continue to tax the patience of a consumer base that has very little patience for sitting thru commercials and can easily find something else to do. The players are more skilled and there’s even more talent and parity across the league.
Anthony Edwards is on the Lakers. Zion is much thinner due to advancements in GLP-1 receptor agonists. Wemby vs Chet is kind of a thing in the way Lebron vs Melo was kind of a thing but not really. Thunder are the team to beat in the west. Orlando is a good playoff team. Indiana is good. The Hawks are gradually becoming one of the worst teams in the league. There’s a new expansion team.
5 years is kind of a tricky amount of time in this era. It’s not like 2010-2015, but it’s also not like 2028-2033. That 5-year gap is where shit gets seriously different. Significant decline in pro sports interest among youth. League scrambling to keep you watching but only old heads care and even that is starting to take a real hit behind the scenes. It’s beginning to become a genuine niche activity. If you’re good at basketball irl you watch NBA basketball. If you’re not you don’t and you have nothing to do with the sport at all in your entire life. VR is now good enough that no one goes to regular season games beyond literal luddites stuck in the past. However there are lots of these people and ticket prices drop to fill the seats. Playoffs are still hopping, even if stadiums for bottom tier teams during the reg season are increasingly, eerily empty. Young people spend their time in the metaverse and use AI assistants to do anything involving this iteration of the web. They’re not on r/nba, which has become a wasteland because people can’t differentiate between a real person and a bot. Reddit tries to counter this by verifying identity, which predictably backfires because anonymity is the whole point. A few thousand stubborn people aged 30 and up remain on some bastardized version. It’s not pretty.
But keep in mind, to the average user on this sub right now, it doesn't feel as extreme as it really is, because so many older people are stuck in their ways and still dragging their families to cheap NBA games. You talk sports on some verified social media site with many of the same folks who are reading this today. It’s mostly business as usual. That said, you’re definitely reading articles on how the future of pro sports is in jeopardy. You’re noticing stuff. It feels different.
Ah, looks like I’ve gotta go back to 2150. I’d talk about that but post-humans are specifically instructed not to tell humans about anything that takes place after the singularity. Wiping my host’s memory now, have a good one and remember to take care of yourself, ie exercise and eat well. You don’t want to miss what’s coming.
Karl Anthony Towns wins a championship
the league will expand to Vegas and (return to) Seattle
Luka will be fully tattooed
The Sixers have Embiid demand a trade, he goes to create a super team in Boston and wins 1 ring cementing his legacy as KG 2.0
In 5 years Victor Wembanyama will be a 2x MVP and 2x DPOY and 2x FMVP after they draft a really good PG within the next 2 years and the spurs begin another dynasty.
Cleveland Cavaliers win the 2025 Championship and Darius Garland wins FMVP.
The Boston Celtics go down as one of the best teams to never win a championship and Jayson Tatum leaves to join the franchise in Las Vegas in his FA year.
1 of the next 5 1st overall picks becomes one of the biggest busts in NBA history.
The league will look to change defense rules because the scoring and offenses will be so good and extreme that it will start to affect the game
That Giddy take is HOT
The Blazers will have made or won the finals
- Scottie Barnes is a top 10 player in the league and leading the raptors to be a top 10-5 team for years to come, they win at least 1 ring during this time.
- OKC and the Spurs are basically the new 2010s warriors of the 2020s
-Lebron is either still in the league or a coach (For either Cleveland or whatever team Bronny's on)
- The wizards are still shit
-The process fails once again for the Sixers
!RemindMe 5 years
Wemby gonna be beat up.
KD still hasnt a ring that counts
Spurs Dynasty 2.0