NBA: 4 teams that have gotten off to frighteningly bad starts this season

Philadelphia 76ers Joel Embiid and James Harden (Bill Streicher-USA TODAY Sports)
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Exploring four NBA teams that have gotten off to frighteningly bad starts this season.

Roughly a week and a half through the 2022-23 NBA season, there are plenty of interesting storylines that are beginning to take shape throughout the league. From teams that have emerged as possible contenders to a few contenders that have looked like everything but a contender to start the season.

While this is not different than any other year, what makes this particular storyline that much more interesting is the number of high-profile franchises that find themselves in trouble during the early portion of the season.

Can any of these NBA teams change the narrative of their season?

Specifically, there are a few teams that should be better than they’ve performed so far this season. A few teams that perhaps entered the season with high expectations but have fallen well short of them.

We’ve only played a small sample size, but we’ll explore four teams that have gotten off to a frighteningly bad start to the season.