A much-hyped 2010-11 NBA season will tip off in roughly one month and there is no question it will live up to its promising expectations.nba playoff Team practices are underway starting this week. Here is an early look at three teams who are in great position to have a successful season.
The logical favorite has to be the Miami Heat. Miami entered this summer’s NBA Free Agency period with nearly $45 million in salary cap space and proceeded to add two of the best players in the NBA, LeBron James from the Cleveland Cavaliers and Chris Bosh from the Toronto Raptors, nba playoff to join their star player Dwayne Wade.Labeled promptly as the new “Big Three” of the league, James, Bosh and Wade have an extreme amount of pressure going into this season. All three players were chosen in the draft class of 2003 with Wade going at No. 5, Bosh taking No. 4 and James being the No. 1 overall pick.
One problem the Heat face is figuring out who will start amongst this “Big Three.” A clear choice at point guard is 24-year-old Mario Chalmers but center remains still left questionable. Canadian Joel Anthony and Zydrunas Ilgauskas, reunited teammate of LeBron James, top the list.The defending champion Los Angeles Lakers will begin their 2010-11 season one man down. Center Andrew Bynum has already publicly said he will not play his first game until late November, which will hamper Los Angeles in the start of their season. Bynum suffered a knee injury during the 2010 NBA playoffs in Game 6 of the first round against the Oklahoma City Thunder.