 What's the word y'all? The season is around the corner, which means that it's time for prediction week. We're starting off with an impossible. Try to predict the standings for the 2022-2023 season. And I'm calling it impossible because there are a lot of different factors when it comes to predicting these things. It's like one major injury can take a team for being in the upper echelon to a lottery team. One disgruntled star, one general manager watching scoop versus victor and decided we'd rather take for those dudes than be competitive this year. And let's be real, I'm looking at five different teams that I think can be the one seed this season. I am not exaggerating. I am looking at five different teams that can legit be the one, two seed. But in reality, one of them is gonna be like the sixth seed. And one of them might not even make the playoffs at all. Predictions are hard. For example, the Portland Trailblazers last season, I felt very confident that the bare minimum, they'd be a playoff team. But then Dame got injured and they was like, you know what, let's go tank because if Dame is not here, then what are we playing for? They trade a season of color. That's all you need to know. Nobody predicted that. And I'm not very good at this. Objectively, I'm not very good at this. PricePixx is back, man. They were the presenting sponsor of the channel last season. And this is a new year, which means new winnings. PricePixx is daily fantasy that it's just you versus the numbers. And if you hit the link in the description, use promo code Kenny, they're matching all the pods is up to $100. So much going on right now. We got NBA pre-season, NFL, MLB post-season. All you have to do is pick between two to five players. And after you do that, you just determine whether you want to go more or less than the projected numbers. 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I got the Grizzies as a bottom playing team again and then they surprised the word into being a two seed. So if I am too low on your team, it is okay, man. I know you got all the faith in the world and your favorite team because I do too. But there's so many different great teams that somebody's got to end up being low. Again, this was my last year's and this is just in Google Sheets. It is extremely ugly. We can fix this. We did fix this is what I meant. Me and my team have been working for this, the enjoy basketball NBA standings predictions. Ladies and gentlemen, it is enjoypredictions.com. All you got to do is click the spot and put the team in there. And then once you're done, you can share it or you can put it onto Twitter and we can start a dialogue. It is enjoypredictions.com. Shout out to my team because they've been working. They've been working. Of course, East and West here, this is hard by the way, like legit. I haven't actually done it. So we're doing this all together. I think the easiest thing to do is to start in the lower tier. The teams that we are confident are gonna go out there and try to win games. I think the 15th seed this season is going to be the San Antonio Spurs. I think the 14th seed this season is gonna be the Utah Jazz. I think the 13th seed this season is probably gonna be OK seed, especially with Chet being out. Josh Giddy looks really good in preseason and I know Shae is a stud, but I do believe they're looking at Victor in school and be like, I think we can take one more time. I'm putting them there. I do think the Houston Rockets also are gonna be there. And now we got these 11 teams. In my mind, I'm gonna be the 11 teams competing for the final eight spots of the playoffs. Who do I think is gonna be the one seed this season? I think the Denver Nuggets can do it. But do I wanna put them there right now? Or will there be some like hangover because of the injuries? Like Jamal Murray takes a couple weeks or a month to really get in the swing of things. Michael Porter Jr. in the pre-seasons look really good. I mean, we know he's gonna be a bucket no matter if his back is working or not. And remember, we're only predicting regular season standings because a team is high in the standings. Don't mean they're gonna be a real championship winner because in the last couple of seasons, the one seed hasn't even got there. You know what I'm saying? So like it is what it is. The three seed is one of the championship in the last couple of seasons. I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna say the Denver Nuggets are gonna finish with the best record in the Western Conference. But I do believe that these top three spots are probably gonna be decided on the last two days of basketball. So the two seed is going to be a man. The teams that are really in my mind for the two seed is Phoenix, Golden State, and LA. Phoenix, the vibes are not completely right in camp right now, but I do believe that they have enough talent to look past that and still win a bunch of basketball games. Golden State, the vibes might not be high right now either with Draymond Green doing what he did, but they still have Steph Curry and Clay Thompson gonna be fully healthy. And Draymond will be playing for them this season. At least that's what we guess. And they're coming off the championship. So I still believe they deserve that level of respect. And the Clippers, they have the best depth in basketball, but we still question whether or not Kawai is gonna play 50 games or he gonna play, I don't know, somewhere between 25 and 50. I don't know. I'm gonna give the respect to the Golden State Warriors and have them be the two seed this season. Because though the Golden State Warriors are great, I don't feel like they're a team that's gonna care too much about having the one seed because they just won the championship as the three seed. Like it didn't matter too much in the grand scheme of their season. And I would kind of want them to chill on Steph Curry in the regular season or Clay Thompson's probably gonna get some games resets out just based off him missing a bunch of time in the last couple of years. But you know what? I think Minnesota is completely built to be amazing in the regular season. One thing that has been true with Rudy Gobert is he's been a regular season defensive monster. And if your team is top five in defense and you have a competent offense, which I'm sure they will because Anthony Edwards and Carthage are there, they're gonna win a bunch of games in the regular season. I'm actually gonna go Minnesota based off that alone. That might be super high for a lot of people, I understand. But again, I'm thinking about the regular season exclusively. Then I'm gonna go LA Phoenix. Do I feel good about that? Do I feel good? I mean, no, I don't. There's nothing in this video that I feel confident with except for Utah and San Antonio being 14 to 15. Everything else is up in the air. But now I'm looking at the teams that are remaining and it's like two of either Memphis, Dallas or New Orleans is gonna be in the playing? That feels wrong, but the teams above them, I feel a little bit more confident in when it comes to the regular season. Like, Memphis did everything in their power to gain our respect and here I am disrespecting them for the second season in the row. But Jiren Jackson Jr. is gonna miss at least some time this season and they did lose a little bit of depth with Cal Anderson leaving and them trading for, trading the Anthony Melton away. I'm sure one of those rookies are gonna step up just like the way they do and we're probably gonna see Anzaiya Williams jump. But like, they're one of those teams that I can see end up being the top three seed or being in the playing. There are a lot of teams in that range. Like Minnesota is in that range for me. Where I can see them being top three. I got them top three right now in the regular season but I can also see it taking a year to actually jail. So I'll drop them. I'll drop them. So I'll drop them again. It's not gonna be a lot of jailing for the Phoenix Suns. They do have the Deandre Aiden cloud over them and they do have the J crowd of what the heck is you're getting for J crowd of thing. But I do believe that Rudy Gobert don't matter what his teammates are, he's gonna be able to carry you to a top 10 defense. And this is the first time where he's got multiple like elite level offensive threats around him with Ant-Man and Carthony Towns. Luca in his self might be a top five seed. You know what I'm saying? They lost Jaylen Brunson. They brought in Christian Wood. Tim Hardaway, Jr.'s back from his injury. Oh man, this is extremely, I knew it was gonna be hard. That's why I said this is impossible. But like now that I'm here and actually doing it, it's even harder than I imagined. Controversial, controversial, controversial. What is this 11 team? I'm looking at these three in the middle, obviously. Is it Sacramento, is it L.A. or is it Portland? And I know you're probably looking at me like, Kenny, it has to be Sacramento, right? I'm high on Sacramento this season. I'm gonna put Sacramento as a 10 seed. We gotta get bold, ladies and gentlemen. I think the Sacramento Kings are a play in team. But now we're looking at L.A. Portland for being on the outside. I think a lot of people have forgotten who Damien Lillard is. Damien Lillard has been a, like how we say, Rudy Gobert has been a top 10 defense by himself. Damien Lillard with healthy has been a top 10 offense by himself. Like for the last, I don't know, eight seasons it feels like. But they also have some of the worst depth in basketball. Their start at five is solid. I like their start at five. But their depth is questionable. And I think overall their defense is gonna be questionable. I'm put in Portland at 11. And I don't feel good about it. I don't feel good about it. This right here might be the thing that bites me the most because Damien is such a monster that I can see him just carrying his team to like one of the top burn and spots. But like again, somebody has to end up there and I'm saying it's gonna be Portland. I'm guessing I'm putting the Lakers here and then now we're figuring out this. I'm gonna give Memphis the benefit of the doubt. But again, Zion Williamson is back. They're gonna be healthy. But maybe my argument against them, if that's what we're saying, is that they might take some time to get used to playing with each other, especially with CJ being their lead guard right now. But again, that don't feel great either. This sucks. This sucks. This is hard. This is impossible. That's what it is. I would rather do this in tears. You know what I'm saying? But then again, Dallas could be the three seed or they can be like the eight seed. LA could be the one seed or they could be the four seed. Like I don't think there's a lot of variance to the LA Clippers if we're assuming that Kauai Leonard's gonna play some this season. The Phoenix Suns can be up to the one seed or down to I would say like the five seed. The Timbers, like I said, I'm high on them. I think they can be the three seed or play-in team. The Grizzlies can be as high as a three seed or play-in team. I think the Pelicans can be as high as like a four seed but as low as a play-in team. The Lakers can be as high as like six I would say and as low as missing, I'm being honest. And Sacramento, I think I put Sacramento at their absolute ceiling. And then Portland has like six to 11. This is hard. But this is what you would do. If you have finally came to your 15 prediction, you hit share, you should subscribe to the newsletter for sure, hit this button here. But after you do that, you just hit share and then it'll copy it and you could just paste it into your Twitter just like this. But I'm looking through it again. I don't feel confident with this. A video like this, you're not gonna have anybody on your side other than the Denver Nuggets. Denver Nuggets fans loves this video. Everybody else is like, can he got us too low? But again, I'm thinking regular season, there's no right answers. I mean, there's gotta be one right answer. But hey, can he got these two right? Maybe. One of them could be the other way around. I don't know. Like is Memphis gonna fall from the two seed to the seven seed? All I hope is that you don't take this too seriously. I made some final revisions. I can't sit here for 40 more minutes thinking about it. It's just gonna give me a big headache. I have the Denver Nuggets SD1 seed. Number two, the Golden State Warriors. Number three, the Clippers. Number four, the Sons. Number five, the Minnesota Tim Wolves. Number six, the Pelicans. Number seven, the Memphis Grizzlies. And you know what? I might be a prisoner of the unseen. Because we haven't seen the Pelicans in Minnesota, maybe I'm higher on them than I probably should be. When in reality, like Memphis has showed that they could be a very, very good team. Same thing with Dallas. But that's just me kind of projecting that these two teams are gonna outperform. We'll see how it goes. We got Memphis S7, it sucks to have them S7, but I do believe that they have the opportunity to be way, way higher. Same thing with Dallas, but it's just the way I ended up going. I got the Lakers, the Kings, and then the rest. Wow. That was hard. But you know what's harder? The Easter Conference. So I'll see y'all in a few days with the Easter Conference, brother, this is not gonna go good. If you enjoyed it, leave it a like. Hey, actually, if I got your team too low, talk me into it. Help me change my predictions for the upcoming season. And don't just say, oh, we got this and that. Compare it to a team that I had higher. And we'll see. I appreciate y'all.