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There will be an explosion: the house that includes the most unexpected team in the NBA and a potential MVP

Durant, Irving and Nash make Brooklyn the league's crazy card, Boston may get the MVP and Philadelphia will give the troubled star duo one last chance.

By the start of the NBA season we will be analyzing the six houses in both conventions.

Start at the Atlantic House, which features four top teams and one serial slouch

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• Brooklyn Nets

• Philadelphia Sixers

• Boston Celtics

• Toronto Raptors

• New York Niks

Assaf Ravitz

Sunday, December 13, 2020, 2:00 p.m.

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Ahead of the slightly shortened NBA season that kicks off in a week and a half, we will go over the six houses in the league and focus on the main story of each team.

We’ll start with the Atlantic House, which features four teams aiming very high for the upcoming season.

And the Knicks.

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Brooklyn Nets: Kevin's Second Career

No team comes this season with more question marks than the crazy NBA card.

Will Steve Nash know how to express his brilliance and excellent interpersonal skills in his first role as head coach?

What will his dynamics look like with Mike D'Antoni and Amara Studmeier on the lines?

Has Kyrie Irving reached a stage where he does more harm than good to his teams?

How will Charis fit into Worth as a third option?

How will the news affect him that Brooklyn is willing to trade him for James Harden, and perhaps open to hearing offers in general?

In general, the trade option on Harden will accompany the Nets' season until something happens to the bearded man.

But if there's one question on which Brooklyn's season will rise or fall, and perhaps all of the club's coming years, it's the question of Kevin Durant's recovery from the Achilles tendon rupture.

On the one hand, it is considered the most difficult injury to recover from and history provides very few reasons for optimism about the chances of returning to a capacity reminiscent of what it was before the injury.

On the other hand, medicine is making huge strides in the field of body rehabilitation and the world of sports looks completely different even compared to what it was five and ten years ago.

Durant is 32 years old, an age that is now considered part of the peak of an actor's career, and he has the tools to continue to be one of the best players in the world even if athleticism does not return to what it was.

After a year and a half of rehabilitation, it is impossible to know what makes sense to expect from someone who is considered to be number 2 injured in the league.

If KD mentions himself, Brooklyn's chances of developing into a very strong team will be high.

Sean Marx has built a deep and quality staff around his two stars.

Lewart has made a significant leap forward in the second half of last season and his hat-trick percentage has also skyrocketed, Spencer Dinwiddy is a classic sixth player for a big team, Jarrett Allen and Diandra Jordan complete a pair of very effective chins, Joe Harris and Landry Shamett are threes experts on each team Big need, Jeff Green is coming after a great playoff in Houston and will add depth to the face positions, Torian Prince will be a great complementary player when he is a Japanese who is a complementary player, it is also worth noting the diverse Bruce Brown who came from Detroit and could turn out to be one of the quiet thefts of the summer.

It's a diverse and interesting staff that has everything a coach could ask for alongside two superstars.

MVP?

Do not be surprised.

Taitum (Photo: Gettyimages)

Boston Celtics: The Jason Taitum Show

On paper, Boston weakened when it lost Gordon Hayward, who was great until he was injured (again) last season.

In the playoffs Boston managed (again) without him, but Toronto and Miami revealed the difficulty in the offensive flow that with Hayward was much more successful.

Despite the significant loss, it is quite possible that Boston will be better next season, largely thanks to its emerging franchise player.

Jason Taitum looks on the safe path to becoming one of the best players in the league, and no one will fall off the chair if he becomes a legitimate candidate for the MVP as early as next season.

After the leap in the middle of last season, all that is left for Taitum to improve on the way to the league of the greatest is stability, the ability to influence every game, every quarter.

In the playoffs he also showed game management abilities that if kept would make him an almost perfect regular season player.

Jaylen Brown has positioned himself as a worthy No. 2, and if he, too, continues his consistent improvement in Boston, she can also cope with a slow recovery of Kamba Walker from a knee injury.

Boston's summer is not considered impressive, but it is certainly possible that in retrospect we will think differently about it.

Danny Ainge has mostly included veteran Tristan Thompson and Jeff Teague, two who know top fights but have been absent from them in recent years.

Tristan has continued to be effective in Cleveland and will add a rebounding ability that Brad Stevens is sorely lacking, Tig has faded rapidly in the last two years but may very well fit for the role of sixth player on a big team (and by the time Kamba returns he will probably open in the top five).

Also worth noting is Rocky Aron Neismith, a threesome expert in the movement who is built like a perfect winger and can add something else that Stevens did not have at Arsenal.

And perhaps it will turn out that the most important move of the summer was the huge trade expiration that Boston received on Hayward.

Without going into details, it allows the Celtics to trade for a player earning up to $ 27 million without returning a similar salary, which will make Boston an interesting destination for players who could become available for offers during the season like Marcus Aldridge, Nikola Wojciech, Aaron Gordon or Eric Gordon.

Murray will give them one last chance and enough.

Ambide and Simmons (Photo: GettyImages)

Philadelphia Sixers: Last chance, probably

After years of experience with inexperienced professionals, Philadelphia has brought in two of the top and most experienced names in the league.

Daryl Murray is the new president of basketball after many years in Houston, Doc Rivers is the new coach after many years at the Clippers, both have been at the top of the West for most of the last decade, but have always lacked a penny per pound, with much of the criticism directed at them.

They are now joining forces and will try to take the extra step with the help of the two (relatively) young stars of the Sixers.

Philadelphia's key question has been the same for three years: Are Ben Simmons and Joel Ambide fit to play together.

Both tend to look better when surrounded by four outside shots, most notably Simmons who starred at a time when Ambide was injured last season.

According to his moves this summer, Murray has come to the conclusion that the way to allow the two to work together is to surround them with as much shooting as possible.

He brought in Danny Green and Seth Kerry, two threesome experts who often move without a ball and employ the defenses.

They will likely complete the top five along with Simmons, Ambide and Tobias Harris, another good outside shot that would be a third option with an excessive contract.

On the bench will be waiting players who provide either threes or defense, but there are not enough players on Doc's roster who are strong on both sides of the 3-and-D equation.

I bet my teacher's this is the last chance of the two.

While he is known as a manager who does everything to get stars and believes that everything else can be arranged, he is also a big proponent of the importance of shooting from the outside and has proven on several occasions that he has no problem taking bold bets.

If he concludes that two stars with problematic shooting from the outside and a troubling injury history will not take Philadelphia to the end, he will be quick to maximize the trade value of one of them before he goes down.

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Siakam (Photo: AP)

Toronto Raptors: Generational change continues

A year and a half ago Toronto won a championship with a rotation made up mostly of seven players, which can be roughly divided into five veterans and two youngsters.

In the two summers since then, four of the five veterans have left, but Toronto continues to be considered a big team that is expected to struggle at the top this year as well.

Kyle Laurie, who was there before everyone else, is also the last Mohicans left to lead an inexperienced but intriguing roster.

Laurie, 34, will continue to influence the game in every way possible, but this year the spotlight will be on the generational change process that Masai Yujiri has carried out.

To understand where this group can go in the coming years, one needs to focus on the young.

First of all Pascal Siakam.

Before the bubble Siakam looks like a real top 15 player in the league, in the bubble he looks very mediocre.

Is it difficult to adapt to this unique situation, or was his difficulty in becoming a leading player revealed in the playoffs?

This is the most important question for the Raptors.

Fred and Anvit, on the other hand, have only gotten better and the bubble already looks like an All-Star for everything.

O. G. Anonovi also made a leap that culminated in the wonderful Buzzer Bitter against Boston in the playoffs.

If Siakam is due to be number 1, Anvolit and Anonobi look like quality 2 and 3 numbers in the making even after Uri fades or leaves.

To this bunch can be added Norman Powell, the gifted scorer who last season finally connected to.

Alongside next-generation executives, there are also some anonymous but interesting names.

Terence Davis is a versatile winger who showed a lot of sparks last season, Matt Thomas is a threesome expert seen just before crystallizing as a rotation player, rookie quarterback Malachi Flynn leaves a first impression of a player with the right nature to screw in rotation and could turn out to be another draft steal in Yogiri's never-ending collection .

But before all that, energetic inside player Chris Bushay will be the one to get the biggest chance, following the depletion of the team’s inside players position.

Nick Ners specializes in being able to get the most out of young players and secondary lineups, you can be sure all four of them will get a chance from him and believe he will develop from them at least one more significant player for the new generation of Raptors.

The challenge: finding players to his liking.

Tom Thibodeau (Photo: AP)

New York Knicks: There is a process, there is no construction

The gap between fourth and fifth place in the Atlantic House may be the highest ever.

Along with four fairly confident playoff teams, the Knicks may have the weakest and least logical roster in the league.

This is not entirely bad.

The Knicks are likely to pick high in the promising 2021 draft, they have no long-term commitment and management has made some moves that have helped it garner future draft picks.

General manager Scott Perry has avoided the kind of trade-offs on Russell Westbrook, and when it comes to asset management and the Knicks' salary cap are in an unusually healthy process.

But the faculty continues to be built without clear logic.

Perry is adding more and more players with a similar profile: talented scorers with question marks related to character, defense and shooting from the outside.

Obi Topin, who fortunately Danny Abdia Knicks chose in eighth place, may be able to score from the outside, but he is an inside player whose natural living space is in color, and he is considered a shocking defensive player in colleges.

He is the last to fit into a team whose top youngsters are RJ Barrett, Mitchell Robinson and possibly Julius Randall.

When you add Alfred Peyton, Dennis Smith, Frank Nilikina, Nerlens Noel and Kevin Knox, whose shooting only works in theory, you get a squad that was considered without outside shooting even ten years ago.

This group will be supervised by Tom Thibodeau, who will have a very hard time finding players in his roster.

So the Knicks may get talented players in high picks and give the youngsters time to develop, but these youngsters need more than a stage, they need tools, a situation that will allow them to get better.

Bart and Robinson, the two most interesting players on this roster, need a veteran or two to learn from them, need a space that will allow them to express their abilities in color, need defense experts to help them also taste occasional victories.

It's hard to see this happening this year.

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