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By JAVIER DOSAMANTESPima Post We're in the midst of the second quarter of the NBA season. The trade deadline and the All-Star break came and went, yet everything remains the same around the league. Kinda. The top 10 teams are who we expected them to be, with the surprising addition of the Sacramento Kings and New York Knicks into the mix. The Brooklyn Nets are about to drop out of that group, and a suddenly feisty LA Clippers team will replace them. Out of that top 10, the top five of each conference make up the top teams in net rating — and those teams are the contenders to win the championship. However, the Phoenix Suns are about to surge in the net rating rankings. They were the surprise team who made a trade that reinvented their roster and changed the trajectory of the...

(Illustration by Javier Dosamantes) By JAVIER DOSAMANTESPima Post Whatever happens in the Western Conference might ultimately end up not mattering because the two contenders in the East — the Boston Celtics and the Milwaukee Bucks — look and play the part of a championship basketball team. Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown are fronting the Celtics' revenge tour. They're currently residing at their apex mountain, playing the best basketball they've played in their young careers.  Their team plays almost perfect basketball, the Celtics are nine-player rotation deep and with the least amount of questions about who they are and who they'll be in the playoffs. Giannis Antetokounmpo has become the personification of “a man on a mission” and has turned into the basketball equivale...