The Denver Nuggets are coming from their best season in the team's franchise history and such outcome was coincident with the arrival of Chauncey Billups to the roster. Billups brought leadership and a high basketball I.Q. to a team that was lacking those skills and suddenly all pieces were in the right place in the puzzle. However it is a huge error to consider that Billups was the only reason why the Nuggets to... Read more

Development was the key word for the Blazers in the last season, as GM Kevin Pritchard was step by step building a young team via the draft and with Head Coach Nate McMillan, the Blazers were turning into a better team year after year. I remember that the Blazers ended the 2005/2006 season with a dismal 21-61 record and since then, they have finished the next regular seasons with records of 32-50, 41-41 and last year... Read more

The Utah Jazz are coming from a bizarre season last year. Of their projected starting lineup for this season, there isn't a single player that played all the 82 games of the regular season. In fact, the starting unit missed a combined of 85 games and this is one of the reasons why the Jazz regressed 6 games, when compared to the previous season. However, injuries can't be the single explanation for such disastrous season... Read more

The Minnesota Timberwolves and GM David Kahn are not worried about building a good team for this season, instead they are focusing in the future, even if this means that the Wolves will be in the lottery the next 2 or 3 years. Drafting Ricky Rubio was the clear sign of that because the Wolves knew that there was a big chance (consummated) that Rubio would remain in Spain for the next 2 years, but still they pulled the... Read more

GM Sam Presti is making a terrific job in the last couple of years in turning the Thunder into a decent and respectable team through the draft, while preserving cap space. Patient is a virtue and he didn't freak out last season, when the young Thunder team started the season with a 3-29 record and the media started talking about the Thunder being the worst NBA team ever. Presti replaced P.J. Carlesimo with the assistant... Read more

The Celtics were a pretty good team last season, even though their season didn't end with the same outcome it did in 2008: they didn't win the championship. They started the season with an unbelievable 27-2 record and during the process, they had a 19-game winning streak. However, we already know what happened to Kevin Garnett's knee and the Celtics with a short rotation couldn't go through a tough and deep postseason... Read more

Forget about those days where the Nets were perennial contenders in the Eastern Conference with Jason Kidd, Vince Carter and Richard Jefferson because these days are gone! President Rod Thorn and G.M. Kiki Vandeweghe are already thinking in the future and although the Nets are going to experience some fairly severe growing pains in this season, this was the right move for the franchise. Now without Vince Carter, the leader... Read more

General Manager Bryan Colangelo had a tough and busy offseason just to "offer" Chris Bosh a competitive team that can make some noise in the Eastern Conference. Chris Bosh is entering a contract year and few doubt that he will depart from Toronto if they fail to be competitive like they failed last season. Colangelo added 9 new players (and I'm not counting the 2 rookies DeRozan and Weems) and in fact, only Bosh... Read more

The Sixers were a 0.500 team in the last 2 seasons, but they always missed to take the next step. Last season, they ended up with a 41-41 record in pretty bad circumstances, as Maurice Cheeks was fired after a 9-14 start of the season and their biggest off season addition, Elton Brand, got injured several times and played just 29 games. Still, the Sixers ended 6th in the Eastern Conference just to be eliminated by... Read more

I wish these NBA previews will be useful for your analysis for this NBA season. Feel free to comment and to share your thoughts with me! I will also later announce my plans and goals for my NBA season. Stay tune! The Knicks are not thinking about this season, in fact they would rather prefer to skip this season and immediately go to the summer of 2010. I'm not developing the Lebron James' soap in here (we are already... Read more