The Best and Worst Surprise Teams of the 2007-08 NBA Season

0ccff">-2 Supersonics -3 Suns -4 Mavericks -4 Knicks -4 Grizzlies -4 Heat -6 Bulls -9 The NBA just wrapped up it's greatest regular season of the millennium. The last five and a half months have been stuffed with enough intrigue to completely overshadow the potentially devastating developments of last summer; the Donaghy scandal, the boring and unwatched 2007 NBA Finals, and the league's two biggest markets being run into the ground, capped with a sexual harassment case in New York and Kobe wanting out of Los Angeles.

 

The Donaghy scandal wasn't mentioned during the season. This year's NBA Finals has the potential for the highest ratings in years. Mitch Kupchak will receive his share of GM of the Year awards. And while the Knicks are still a train wreck, the light at the end of the tunnel is brighter than ever with Donnie Walsh officially announcing that Isiah is gone. Rejoice Knicks fans, that's better than making the playoffs!

To decide which teams were the best and worst surprises of the season, I turned to the experts; the ESPN analyst's preseason predictions. Ten NBA writers cast their two cents on all 30 NBA teams and I averaged out their votes to create projected Eastern and Western Conference standings based on their "expert" opinions.

 

 

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