This Year's Make It or Break It Teams Are Many (and They Could Shift the Market)

Featuring my favorite team to hate on, plus some other franchises

The tightening of rules tends to increase the frequency with which organizations pivot. Do I have cold, hard data on that? Not really, but the current financial state of the NBA has demanded it.

The Celtics traded away Jrue Holiday and Kristaps Porzingis for financial reasons; the Suns had to buy out Bradley Beal and trade Kevin Durant; the Bucks waived and stretched Damian Lillard to sign Myles Turner; the list goes on and on.

It feels as if this year could be particularly interesting in terms of “Make It or Break It” teams, the ones who, if their seasons go south, could just blow the whole thing up (or at least make significant changes).

Today, we’re going to talk about a few of those teams, starting with the team that I love to hate on more than anyone else…