Darryl Morrie: The championships are often won in July. It does not matter what happens 11 months before the finals are played, but it also does matter. I think James Harden is gonna start the season on the Sixers and we will see how that goes. But if you just look at the landscape right now, the odds of them getting one of those two things back for him are pretty slim.
Brian Windhorst is joined by ESPN's Tim Bontemps and Tim MacMahon to break down both the Eastern and Western Conferences into tiers based on who will contend, who will be draft lottery bound and more!
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