Published 11/5/2008
by Zach Bowers
at Bleacher Report - NBA
It is the start of November and the campaign is just beginning. Not the presidential campaign (no one wants to read about that), but rather the start of the NBA season.
Yes! It has finally arrived.
We are about a week into the season now and there are some things that we already know: The Celtics, Lakers, and Hornets are really good, the Nuggets have traded Allen Iverson to the Pistons, and the Bobcats, Knicks, Grizzlies, and Thunder are terrible. So without further ado I will now announce my sleeper team for the 2008-09 NBA season.
With the first overall selection in the 2008-09 sleeper draft, I select the Toronto Raptors. I would love to pick my team, the Bucks, but honestly I just don’t see it. They are a team in progress who will surely get better as the season goes on, but right now they are slow on defense and struggling to score in the half-court offense. So I’ve decided to go with a slightly more established team in the Toronto Raptors.
A lot of people have ...
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