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The Phoenix Suns are imploding. Now what?

It would be hard to start the season worse than the Phoenix Suns have. They are 0-3, having lost by a combined 92 points already. Their best player, Eric Bledsoe, just tweeted "I don't want to be here". So much for subtlety. Oh, and the Suns just fired their head coach Earl Watson. So much for patience. The Suns dug themselves into a hole on this one. They trotted into the season with a clear directive to lose as many games as possible in order to nab another potential superstar in the draft to pair with their lone bright spot, Devin Booker. Flush with cap space, GM Ryan McDonough stayed pat in free agency. Last season, they basically sent Bledsoe home so they could lose more games. There is no doubt that Bledsoe's recent blatant signs of displeasure stemmed somewhat from his team's decision to bar him from playing basketball games when he was perfectly healthy. McDonough has just burned through his second coach in three years. Executives generally receive a p

NBA over/under '17-'18 record predictions

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The NBA is finally back! We made it! After an "off season" where Kyrie Irving, Paul George, Chris Paul, Jimmy Butler, Gordon Hayward, Carmelo Anthony and Paul Millsap all switched teams, it's time to get back to the actual games. I'm here to predict if you should take the over or under on each team's projected win/loss record. At the end of the year, we can all check out to see how wrong this was. Over/unders are based on Vegas Insiders. Atlanta Hawks Line: 25.5 The Hawks underwent quite the talent drain this summer. They lost a ton of defense in Paul Millsap, Dwight Howard and Thabo Sefalosha, then lost their most proficient scorer in Tim Hardaway Jr. for good measure. It should be noted though, that the Knicks grossly overpaid for his services and the Hawks were wise not to match the laughable 4 year, $72 million deal. What's left is point guard Dennis Schroder, who at 24 years-old, is still young enough to take another leap forward. Schroder is blazi