2021–22 NBA Preview: Sensing a Bizarro Western Conference

Jonah Hall
8 min readOct 21, 2021

The NBA’s West is going to be all jammed up and full of stressed out fan-bases. Parity is good. Too much parity makes for seeding chaos. Klay is out for another couple of months. Kawhi is out. Jamal Murray is out. Damian is still in Portland. The Suns hope to repeat last year’s success. Here we go.

Los Angeles Lakers (o/u 53.5)

It’s the aging veteran experiment. Maybe LeBron wants to feel young again, so he surrounded himself with graybeards. Maybe he was tired of the young fellas. Nine…

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Jonah Hall

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