{"id":118662,"date":"2025-09-04T06:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T06:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/118662\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T06:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T06:43:10","slug":"grading-every-nba-teams-title-chance-after-2025-offseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/118662\/","title":{"rendered":"Grading Every NBA Team&#8217;s Title Chance After 2025 Offseason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The 2023 champions pushed the Oklahoma City Thunder to seven games this past spring and look even better on paper to begin the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Nikola Joki\u0107 is still the best basketball player on the planet at age 30. Cameron Johnson doesn&#8217;t have the offensive ceiling of Michael Porter Jr., but he may be a better overall fit with his passing and defense. Jamal Murray played some of the best basketball of his career over the final 20 games of the regular season (24.1 points, 5.8 assists, 1.2 steals, 43.8 percent shooting from three).<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">With a revamped bench that now features Jonas Valan\u010di\u016bnas, Bruce Brown and Tim Hardaway Jr., this is the deepest team that the Denver Nuggets have ever put around Joki\u0107.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">This is easily the second-best team in the West that features a three-time MVP with nearly 100 games of playoff experience already in his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2023 champions pushed the Oklahoma City Thunder to seven games this past spring and look even better&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-118662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}