Which NBA Teams Actually Have a Shot? Power Ranking the Top 6 Contenders

Oddball w/ Amin Elhassan & Izzy Gutierrez

Meadowlark Media

Basketball, Comedy, Sports

2.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

With the playoffs one month away, these regular season powerhouse matchups are hitting a little different. After watching the Lakers take on two of the top teams in the East and the Thunder take down the Nuggets over the weekend, Izzy and Amin are turning their attention to the hunt for the Larry O'Brien trophy. Today they're power ranking the top six teams by record-- Cavaliers, Thunder, Celtics, Lakers, Nuggets, and Knicks-- to determine who has the best chance of winning a title this season. Plus, how will LeBron James and Jalen Brunson's injuries affect the title race? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:43.1	Welcome to Oddball. I'm Amino Hassan. That over there in Miami is the one and only Izzy Gutierrez. And we have a show for you guys today. Lots of arguments. Lots of people getting
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0:54.8	Kings, the crown is yours. Oh, yeah. There's actually another Israel Gutierrez in basketball.
1:00.6	I mean, he's a Mexican national. Really? Mm-hmm. I don't know if he had a... But there was.
1:06.9	Okay. All right. Well, maybe we'll cross past them at some point when we cover the Mexico City Capitanez of the G League.
1:14.3	But we're not talking about the G League right now.
1:16.3	We're talking about the playoffs.
1:18.1	The playoffs are legitimately a month away.
1:22.2	So it's time to take a closer look at how some of the top teams in each conference stack up against each other.
1:27.7	Izzy, you and I rank the top six teams, the top three seeds in each conference,
1:33.0	the east, the Cavs, Celtics, and Nix, and the West, the Thunder Nuggets and Lakers.
1:38.2	And we basically put them in order of, all together, who's got the best chance of winning
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