Championship tier: The only teams with a reasonable chance to win it all
Teams: Bucks, Clippers, Lakers
Everyone wants to get cute and find some “sleeper” team that can win it all, but we already know who the best teams are and they reside in Los Angeles and Milwaukee.
Stars win in the NBA and these three teams all coincidentally have one of the best three players on the planet. And for the L.A. teams, they also have an elite second option that perfectly compliments their superstar.
This doesn’t mean that I think these teams will walk to the NBA Finals. They’ll be pushed along the way, no doubt. But when the chips are in the middle, when the lights are the brightest or any other bad sports cliche you can think of, I trust the best players in the world to find a way to get it done.
Just because it’s the easy answer doesn’t make it the wrong answer. Bubble or no bubble, the Bucks, Clippers, and Lakers are the best three teams in the NBA.