In only 4 days the NBA season starts with over 1200 games and spanning 6 months fans Worldwide can start to rejoice because their favorite sport is back. 

The NBA season last year ended with Nikola Jokic, the lowest draft pick ever to win the MVP, and the Denver Nuggets defeating the Miami Heat 4-1 in the NBA Finals. With the finals over the time for teams to add new pieces and trade away old ones began. 

Khalil Grubb, a senior at Hidden Valley said, “Either the Celtics or the Bucks had the best offseason, the Celtics added Kristaps Porzingis and Jrue Holiday while the bucks added Damian Lillard to create a great duo with Giannis.” 

With that being said, it is believed that the Miami Heat still have a good chance at winning the finals this season since they kept many of their core players and their bench players who played well when they needed them to. When asked Grubb said, “I think the Celtics are going to win because they fixed their defenses issues by adding Porzingis who is an excellent defensive center and gives them the height they need to compete with the taller teams in the east.” 

Fans also have a new concept to look forward to in the middle of the season, a Mid-Season Tournament with a month-long pool play section consisting of 6 pools of 5. Then after the pool play, 8 teams will advance to a single game knockout round until there are two teams left who will play December 9th in Las Vegas. The tournament offers more incentives for players to play games and not sit with monetary rewards being given based on performance and how far your team advances and how well they do. This adds more competitive games to the NBA since the conference format has long since become Irrelevant. 

With all that said NBA fans only must wait 4 more days till October 24th when the league tips off and basketball returns.