Atlantic questions

Cannot believe I came up with individual questions for all 30 teams at this time of year.

What an incredible coincidence.

BOSTON CELTICS

You doin' anything with those Philly picks, or ...

It isn't that we think Paul Pierce may come out of retirement to help with Boston's swingman depth, that would be silly.

But Joe Johnson isn't technically retired, so that wouldn't be silly.

Jayson Tatum wore himself out in defense of a championship. Put his career on the line for the Celtics, yet Tatum is asked to lead the 2026-27 team through his prime with no clear All-Star counterpart. Hugo's gonna take off, we get it, but 74 games of Paul George working 30 minutes a night in 2026-27 is not happening.

Searching for the Bulls' shakeup

The problem for the Bulls, and new GM Bryson Graham, are numbers. Growing numbers, shrinking numbers, low numbers, high numbers, The Who, Small Faces, Kinks, whole scene. The team is fourth on Chicago's depth chart, behind football and baseball and Blackhawks. The internet takes stronger issue with Chicago

Best of the East

We will see a different Jaylen Brown, Tyrese Maxey, Joel Embiid and V.J. Edgecombe next season. Each won't be able to help it. Nobody's bowing down, but they will peel off. LeBron James will have the ball in Philadelphia for as long as LeBron'

Good work, Don Nelson

We won't miss Don Nelson too much because his legacy is right in front of us, starting in October and all the way through June. Best players on the floor, always running, taking the best shot for the most points. This isn't Don Nelson's

Worst of the East

The bummer here is not the East, but what they keep doing to our East. Sure, the East won the last title, took the 2025 Finals to seven games, won in 2024 and 2021 and 2019. Nice outputs, poorly sustained so far. At least those teams tried, even if it

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Searching for the Bulls' shakeup

Best of the East

Good work, Don Nelson

Worst of the East