I am not sure I can agree with you guys here on this one.  Carmelo Anthony and Dwight Howard are a shell of their former selves. I’ll take Durant over Lebron right now, I’ll take Lillard over Westbrook, I’ll take Tatum over Carmelo and I’ll take Adebayo over Howard.  Its going to be a solid team but let’s not forget Lebron is on the tail end of his career along with Melo and Howard. Also Anthony Davis can’t stay healthy to save his life. I’ll take the Nets over these guys I think.

That's amazing move to their management since they settle to improve their current line up than getting those big stars and work again with chemistry which for sure takes time. I'm still confident that bucks will still give a good fight just to reach the finals eventhough there are teams who recruit strong players to play with them next season. Lets see one next season on how bucks will defend their title since many strong teams has been build up and they are huge threat on winning the champ.

Still not believing because of so many injuries,  but he already accomplished what all the stars wanted from this league, league MVP, all star MVP and a title for his name, good enough to complete a resume naming a superstar inside all the stars of the league.

With healthy Jamal and with the same lineup It's very possible to see this at the finals, though I'm also eyeing for the warriors with
a healthy splash bro and a possible Simmons, I'll wait if this would happened.

The path is basically the same. That year they were not so great because Nash was 100 years old and had huge back problems, many smaller players have back problems after playing basketball for over 20 years (these guys play before NBA too, we have to remember that) and that meant that he wasn't 100% himself, plus he was older anyway even on healthy situations and not the MVP Nash we all remember. Kobe got injured that same year, and Howard was injured for a little while as well.

Only players that were healthy as far as I remember were Gasol and Artest which doesn't mean much. Plus they were not deep neither. Same goes for this Lakers as well, Melo is old, very old, Lebron gets injured, he had it on his first years at Lakers and last year as well, AD gets injured all the time, like constantly throughout his career, and Westbrook is getting to that age as well, who knows? So injuries could keep them from being anything at all, barely make it to playoffs, if it happens. If not and they are healthy then....

Yes, it's hard to predict because last playoffs, we were expecting that the Lakers would dominate the West, but injury happened and they made an early exit in the season. Clippers for me still have a chance though, they are silent now as they don't have any major roster addition but as long as Kawhi is healthy, they still have a chance, a big chance actually.

What a total waste of money and for sure he will regret his decision for his entire life imagine he wasted that 80 million dollar contract and try to ask for more when he didn't give anything to his team yet. Now for sure he will struggle to get that 80 million $ contract back especially if he fails to give a good performance to the team where he accept the offers. I guess this is the start where his career ends so hopefully he will give his best shot if he can get a contract so that he can increase his value if not 80 million but for a decent amount.

From all the listed  players from the poll, it's only Kawhi haven't got any updates is he going to stay with the Clippers?  update: (he' going to re-sign a contract still fnalizing terms) if he'll stay and if he played with a healthy condition they still have the title contender not as heavy favorite but still a caliber team who can chase it.

Those teams that you mentioned are all have equal chance to win this title, though we still don't have updates from the final rosters of each franchise it surely going to be a fun season this coming year.

Just love to see how coaches will use those 5 stars rotating them with roles players to avoid getting serious injuries.

He already did good a good performance with the Lakers during his last stint, helping them to win the title (remember how he guarded Jokic that time, using his experience with this mind games), and then he says that he will be staying with the Lakers and then at the last minutes sign with the Sixers and he is back again. Regarding that 2012/2013 with that line up, most of them are really way past their prime and then some ego clashing.

Errr, almost the same. I didn't say he own the team. He is picking and if he didn't like what the management put in their team he will show it and it's actually obvious on the faces and actions he made with IT at Cavs. I am not like the Lebron haters out there, I like him actually when he started, there's just a big difference after he received the reputation. People change.

https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/nba-free-agency-rumors-mavericks-finished-second-in-kyle-lowry-sweepstakes/
Could this be the reason behind the investigation being done by the NBA with Lowry? Teams not having a chance to offer something to players because they are signed too early.

That picture say it all  until know him and his agent are thinking what they've done wrong, a huge amount of money that being wasted.

He's deserve that contract from how we seen him playing last season, maybe he can ask for more if Celtics see his value helping them to win a title,

that might happened "only if", for now he should take this and enjoy his stay at Boston, try to figure out what help he can give to system and be worthy upon staying.