Way Too Early Futures & Win Totals | 2026

Most of the deals, I think, have been approved.

Still waiting on LeBron.

Everybody expects it to be Cleveland.

It would be a shock if it wasn't Cleveland at this point.

I don't have any sort of like intel for you.

Um, I'd always kinda thought Cleveland made the most sense.

It does sound like the Warriors are not gonna be able to get it done, which I'm thankful for 'cause I thought that was the lamest ending.

Um, Philly, I think, is probably still out there.

The Wolves are still out there.

Miami's still out there.

Denver's supposedly not listed, but Denver definitely thinks that they're still in the hunt.

But whenever that wraps up, we'll probably have a podcast talking about LeBron and the ramifications of that.

On today's show, we're gonna do a little bit of early NBA futures because win totals did pop up at FanDuel and DK, and a couple other books.

We wanna take a look at the NBA win totals market here before the NBA schedule comes out.

Uh, this is like your too early NBA futures kinda panel.

I'm not like firing off on any of these.

I'm still in the process of reworking projections, um, doing things right now like how much do I give a team if they actively pulled starters last year trying to lose, and I expect them to try and win this year? Like, what should that adjustment be? Should it be four and a half points to the power rating? Should it be five? Like, trying to figure out exactly how much to adjust for the tank-a-palooza that we saw last year, um-

You gotta start from scratch, Matt.

You cannot use last year's numbers with these tanking teams.

You, you can.

I was thinking about that today.

I was looking at-

You can.

You can, you just gotta make a lot of adjustments.

You gotta make a l- like for exa- for example, I will tell you-