Four NBA teams finished the 2013-14 campaign with a winning percentage above .675. None of them are among the five clubs that have opened the 2014-15 season by winning their games at or above an 80 percent clip.
With roughly a month's worth of data in hand, it's hard to tell exactly what the basketball world is witnessing. These could be fiery starts or the early signs of a league-wide changing of the guard.
Chances are that there are elements of both in play.
Not all of these teams are going to end this year where they started it. Some will slowly fizzle away, plagued by unsustainable production or schedules that increase in difficulty. It hardly seems coincidental that none of the league's five hottest teams have faced even a top-third schedule in terms of difficulty, per ESPN.com.
But some of these early-season juggernauts appear built to last. With deep rosters and two-way balance, they have the ingredients for something far more substantial than a quick spurt out of the gate.
Judging these teams based on what they have accomplished to date and how they project to perform down the road, let's take a worst-to-first run through the league's strongest starts.
//from Bleacher Report http://ift.tt/1rB6czI
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