2021/22 Official NBA & Pacers Prediction thread

[Peck]

Here it is folks, time to put that thinking and prognosticating hat on and show everyone all over the world how good you are at predicting the upcoming season. In this thread we are going to do it all, we are doing both teams and individual awards for the entire NBA but since this is a Pacers fan board we will also do Pacer award predictions as well.

I try every year to get people to do the entire roll out of teams but as always some people just want to pick the top teams

For those of you brave enough to actually give out predicted records

And away we go.

I'll start

Atlantic

Nets 1
Knicks 5
76ers 6
Celtics 8
Raptors

Central

Bucks 2
Bulls 7
Pacers 9
Cavaliers
Pistons

Southeast

Atlanta 3
Miami 4
Hornets 10
Wizards
Magic


Northwest

Nuggets 1
Jazz 3
Blazers 7
Timberwolves
Thunder

Pacific

Warriors 4
Suns 5
Clippers 6
Lakers 9
Kings

Southwest

Mavericks 2
Grizzlies 8
Pelicans 10
Spurs
Rockets



East play in

Pacers vs Hornets
Bull vs Celtics

Pacers vs Celtics

East playoffs

Nets vs Celtics
Heat vs Knicks
Hawks vs 76ers
Bucks vs Bulls

Second round

Nets vs Heat
Hawks vs Bucks

E.C. Finals

Hawks vs Nets

West play in

Lakers vs Pelicans
Blazers vs Grizzlies

Lakers vs Grizzlies

West Playoffs

Nuggets vs Lakers
Warriors vs Suns
Jazz vs Clippers
Mavericks vs Blazers

Second round

Nuggets vs Warriors
Jazz vs Mavericks

WC Finals

Nuggets vs Jazz

NBA finals

Nuggets vs Nets (a repeat of the 76 NBA finals)

NBA Champion

Nets

Individual awards

MVP
James Harden

COY
Steve Nash

ROY
Scottie Barnes (runner up Chris Duarte)

6th man of the year
Patty Mills

MIP
Kevin Porter Jr.

DPOY
Bam Adebayo


Pacer Awards

MVP
Domantas Sabonis

ROY
Chris Duarte

DPOY
Isiah Jackson

MIP
Jeremy Lamb

Most disappointing
T.J. McConnell

Most impressive
Chris Duarte

[BobbyMac]

Pacers win 48 - 50 games and finish 4th in the east.

[Ozys Nepimpis]

Pacers win 48 - 50 games and finish 4th in the east.

If that happens Domas is ALL NBA and Duarte is ROY

[Motion Offense]

MVP: Giannis
DPOY: Bam
ROTY: Green
MIP: Jordan Poole
Coach: Ime
Comeback Player: Klay

1st Team All NBA

G: Curry
G: Harden
F: Durant
F: Giannis
C: Joel

2nd Team

G: Lillard
G: Luka
F: LeBron
F: George
C: Jokic

3rd Team

G: Mitchell
G: LaVine
F: Tatum
F: Middleton
C: Bam

Defensive Teams

1st team

G: D. Murray
G: Holiday
F: Butler
F: Giannis
C: Bam

2nd Team

G: Simmons
G: Smart
F: George
F: Green
C: Gobert

All Rookie Teams

1st

G: Green
G: Cunningham
G: Suggs
G: Mitchell
G: Giddy

2nd team

G: Duarte
G: Bouknight
F: Wagner
F: Kai Jones
C: Sengun

[djeazykutz]

Duarte will win 6th man of the year, but not Rookie of the year.
Brogdon will enter the star point guard conversation (if he stays healthy).
If we’re under .500 by the trade deadline, Turbonis is done.

[Ichi]

MVP: Embiid if healthy, Jokic if not
DPOY: Giannis
ROTY: Cunningham
MIP: Monte Morris
6Man: Nance Jr.
Coach: Billy D (I feel like I could coach that roster to a good record, which is probably a big enough turnaround to win it)

Pacers: Play-in game as 7th seed. I don't really care enough about the outcome to predict it further than that.

To add further: I don't believe in guys on rookie deals getting MIP, so they've all been disqualified in mine.

[Pacerized]

I agree with all of Peck's picks in the East and sadly I think we're looking at an 8 or 9 spot for the play in again.
In the West I'd call it as follows.
Nuggets 1
Lakers 2
Jazz 3
Mavs 4
Suns 5
Clippers 6
Warriors 7
Blazers 8
Grizzlies 9

[Motion Offense]

I agree with all of Peck's picks in the East and sadly I think we're looking at an 8 or 9 spot for the play in again.
In the West I'd call it as follows.
Nuggets 1
Lakers 2
Jazz 3
Mavs 4
Suns 5
Clippers 6
Warriors 7
Blazers 8
Grizzlies 9

Murray is out till like March/April. I don’t see the Nuggets being a top 4 seed with him out

[BobbyMac]

If that happens Domas is ALL NBA and Duarte is ROY

That would be nice.

[Trader Joe]

God the West is just an absolute knife fight 1-7 isn't it. I could legit see any of those teams in the NBA finals if things went right.

[doctor-h]

7th or 8th in east. First round out. Maybe win 1 game in the playoffs.

[RamBo_Lamar]

Pacers 43W-39L

Better than play-in, but not enough to advance.

To hell with the rest of it.

[BillS]

42-40, win play-in, lose in 1st round

[owl]

44-38 Pacers get to second round

Bucks win it all

[Motion Offense]

44-38 Pacers get to second round

Bucks win it all

What seed you think we will be with that record?