Who Will Rule the NBA? Ranking the Top 15 Franchises of the Next Decade
After contributing to Nate Silver's "Future of the Franchise" rankings, here are my 15 teams with the most promise to win NBA championships
Recently I contributed to
’s “Future of the Franchise” rankings — covering all 30 teams and how they rank in NBA championship equity over the next decade.I’m sharing my rankings here for the top 15, with the bottom 15 published earlier this week.
Nate provided the full background at his Substack —
— but here’s his short version:The sole criterion for these rankings is a team’s expected number of championships over the next 10 NBA seasons (2025-26 through 2034-35). We hope these rankings are well-informed and analytically-minded, but ultimately they’re subjective opinions. The voters are me, Silver Bulletin Assistant Sports Analyst Joseph George, and Jeremias Engelmann, the developer of Real Plus-Minus and a former analyst for the Mavericks and Suns, who writes at the newsletter 5x5.
My rankings:
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