The Raptors and Heat have both lost 4 games in a row since the “top 3 seeds in the East are the Pistons, Raptors, and Heat” post a week ago. Outside of Cleveland, the East is slowly returning to preseason expectations as the Knicks are up to 2nd and Magic up to 4th.
It feels like every year some teams get off to an absolutely scorching start and everyone talks about them as new contenders but mostly outside of 1-2 surprise teams the top at the end of the year end up being teams that were expected to be good