With that roster, I really think they already made history as one of the best offensive teams and the worst defensive team in the league. For sure they will hit the playoffs but I don't think they will win the ECF. History is said to be repeating itself as LA Lakers being the defending champion and 76ers which might take that from them. What can you say about this? Danny Green might three-peat.

76ers are probably their biggest match up in the east, but it's too early, what if these 3 superstar in the Nets will blend perfectly, I think it will be hard for them to stop. Embiid is no doubt giving everything this season, we can see on his stats but 76ers hasn't prove anything yet in the playoffs, so I have a little double, regular season and playoffs are different and the big 3 of nets have a lot of playoff experience, 2 of them has become a champion.

Guess one more time! I cast my vote late. It was after Jazz won 2 times against Dallas. So on  January 27. So they had 14 wins by that time.

Nobody indeed was expecting the Utah Jazz to be at the top of every team in the NBA and as the first to reach the 20 wins.
Lakers just finished 2nd base on the poll.
I suggest the same poll, to who ever team gets to the 40th win first. I'm pretty sure the poll result will change this time.

Harden was always a good assist kind of guy, whereas kyrie was always a good scroing guy, so that does make sense. Kyrie Irvings highest assist number is 6.9 assists per game in 2018-2019 Celtics year, he was mainly under 6 assists every year before that as well but he has been scoring a lot more as well since he left Cavs too. Whereas Harden had 11+ assist per game years as well as have 3 seasons with 10+ assists per game and also this year is like that as well so this will be 4th year if he finishes this way.

Sure Harden is a great scorer and nobody denies that but he is also a great passer as well, he managed to have 17+ assist games many times if I remember correctly. Finally looking at how Kyrie is a good scorer, and how Durant is a great scorer, it makes sense that Harden will be the passer in them, dude at least could hit them with great passes compared to others just looking to score.

They might be "struggling" a little but playoffs are wayyy different than regular season.  Lakers would sweep ok city if they ever ended up meeting.

Lebron had complete garbage to work with in clevland and always made it far.  Remember lebron has never lost a first round series.  And that's riding with teams that started people like "boobie" Gibson...  all these years its the same story lebron doesn't have it, he is getting old, and then playoffs come and poof he is unstoppable.

And this is from a knick fan not a bron rider just got to give props where its due

The players are crying about having to be away from their family, which I'm not sure why this year that's suddenly a problem.  This seems like a way to try and make them happy, that they only need to spend a single day away from their families.  I feel for these athletes and the ridiculous requirements they have to meet to play these days, but some of the guys complaining are making over 40 million dollars per year.  That's almost a million dollars per week, and they still complain about having to attend an all star weekend that is supposed to be filled with fun and lasting memories for fans.  There's too much money out there...  People are forgetting why they started doing things in the first place.

If you really watch NBA you should accept the fact that DRose is done now. There's no impact or spark or what you are calling it. I'm his fan but I'm not blinded by the fact that he can't bring impact now for any team. Don't expect him to change a certain team,  like New York because he is Derrick Rose, the youngest MVP in the league.

Let's accept that fact and move on. Chemistry is not enough to become a competitor in the NBA.

They really fell short in the playoffs. The last season they got straight Ls against Boston Celtics. The last time they reached the finals is in 2001 against the LA Lakers too as far as I know, but at that time they lost. After that, they are falling short and just reaching opening matches and semis. Right now, they have a good line-up, it is not just Embiid, then there's Green and Howard.