NBA Early Season Contenders vs Pretenders

San Antonio: Contender

It’s the Spurs. Need I say more?

You should never count the Spurs out of the NBA finals race until Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobli, Tony Parker, and coach Greg Popavich are out of town. They are such a well-oiled machine and so fluent at the game that, despite their slow start, they have exactly what it takes to take it all the way no matter what seed they finish the regular season with.

Let’s also not forget Kawhii Leonard, who is on his way to NBA super-stardom and is a great defender, showed it as such when he and the Spurs dismantled the Heat last summer.