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Top 10 Line Ups and NBA Predictions

The NBA season is back!  After a busy summer where multiple All Stars changed teams, let's take a look at the Top 10 starting / finishing lineups for the upcoming season.  Since some teams such as the LA Clippers have talented bench players (Lou Williams and Montrezl Harrell) that play crunch time minutes, I will be ranking the best 5, as in the 5 that will probably finish most games.  So for the Lakers for example even though they are projected to start AD at PF with Kuzma on the bench, I would assume they would finish with a small ball lineup of Davis at the 5 and Kuz at the 4.  And since Kuzma is clearly the 3rd best...

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Top 10 Starting Lineups and Season Preview

Welcome to Starting 5!  Come check out our blog to see team previews, fantasy tips and predictions, rankings and anything else NBA related.  We will be having regular dedicated blogs for Top Ten Lists and Who's Better, so one week it may be the Top 10 Greatest Finals Performances and the next week it may be who was better Jason Kidd or Steve Nash?   Since our website is called Starting 5, it only seems fitting that the first top ten list will be the top ten starting 5 lineups in the NBA.  First I made a ranking system to grade each player in the starting lineup out of 10 (Lebron James is the only player ranked with a perfect score of...

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