As the NBA heads past the All-Star break, the season begins its final push to the playoffs. At this point, the contenders for the championship are quite obvious and have been narrowed down to a few.
This article does a deep dive into why your team has the chance to hold up the Larry O'Brien trophy by the end of the year.
Los Angeles Lakers
The offensive ability of Luka Doncic and LeBron James.
As shown in previous years, Luka Doncic is a man on a mission in the playoffs, and he can win a playoff game by himself. Which is what the Lakers are going to rely on all playoffs if they were to make a deep run.
Lebron James will also need to have a big playoff run to have the Lakers pushing for a title. Their defence is not great and outside of the big three they don't have much offence.
It is going to be hard for them to make a deep run but a team with Luka Doncic and Lebron James can do anything.
