Whether or not an NBA team is a real title contender in any given season has a foolproof means of being tested in that year’s NBA playoffs, but the masses hungry for information demand prognostications for their favorite teams well before that process even begins.
To that end, analysts have been working for decades to develop ways to project what teams might realistically be among the final four or so franchises left to compete in the conference finals in a given season, probably the lowest bar one can settle on and still call a team a ‘contender’ in a sense that carries useful meaning.
And in today’s NBA, Synergy Sports is one organization in particular that is leaned on heavily in such projections.
