NBA: Way-too-early championship contender rankings for 2021

Way-too-early NBA championship contender rankings for 2021

Now that the 2019-20 NBA season has reached its conclusion, it’s safe to say that this past season will be a year that players and its viewing fans will never forget. It started under the umbrella of normalcy in various NBA arenas across the country. Then, it ended in a basketball bubble in Orlando in which the Los Angeles Lakers won its 17th NBA championship in franchise history.

The 2019-2020 season featured entertaining aspects of basketball despite injuries to the league’s decorated stars, the reverberating death of the Late Kobe Bryant, and playing in a pandemic. But when there’s the end of one sequence of basketball, there’s always the excitement of a new beginning for another.

While the league doesn’t know when the games will be played next season due to the uncertainty of COVID-19, here is a way-too-early ranking of the top 10 championship contenders for the 2020-2021 season that has a chance to put their hands on the Larry O’Brien Trophy.