A Way Too Early NBA League Pass Ranking

All right, it might be pretty early for this video, but but I want to do a league pass ranking. All right, ranking NBA teams based on watchability. The ver first version. I'm probably gonna do this again right before a tip off of the NBA season. I'll probably do it a couple months into the year. I'll probably do it halfway through the season because this is always evolving, right? This is how excited I am to watch all 30 NBA teams for this upcoming season. Reminder that it is again evolving and it is subjective. I may value something in an NBA team that you don't care about or I might not care about something you value. Let me know in the comment section what you agree or disagree with. Let's get into it. This video is brought to you by Segeek. Hit the link in description. Use code KFR10 to get 10% off your purchase of tickets with Segeek. See take from all over the internet, put them in one central location for you. 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I want to say again, thank you to Segeek for sponsoring this video. Use code KFR10 to get 10% off your purchase of tickets. So, I broke it down to five different categories. I got the first category is two words, must see TV. Second category is love it. Second category is pretty fun. The fourth category is I'm intrigued. And the fifth category is I'm not going to lie. And usually those I'm not going to lie teams are ones that like I'm I'm going to say this right over. I have some level of interest in all 30 teams before the season starts. that I'm not going to lie, tier is for the teams that I may watch a lot of for the first couple weeks of the season just to get a feel for, but by February, I might not be watching their games every single night. You know, the the first tier and the two words must see TV, those are the teams that I'm trying my very best, and I know it's impossible, but I'm trying my very best to watch every single time they sued up. You feel me? And everything in between is in between. And I'm going to go in the alphabetical order that I see right in front of me. Starting off with the Atlanta Hawks. The Atlanta Hawks had a really good second half of the season. They basically gave the Knicks their most interesting playoff series and the Knicks run to the NBA finals. And then they added some pieces. They added in Lud Door. They added in Aaron Wiggins. You know, uh I think this is a I'm going to put them in the pretty fun tier. They got a brand of basketball that I enjoy, but maybe not enough to put him in the first two tiers. The Boston Celtics I'm going to put into Oops. I'm going to put the Boston Celtics into the love it tier. I think that I I am just so intrigued by what's going to happen with Oh, I have a whole category from I'm intrigued, but you get what I'm saying where like I've said this before, but one of my least favorite timelines, my least favorite outcomes of the se this season is that you know Jaylen Brown is gone and they replace him with Paul George and now it's Tatum's turn to do basically what Jaylen Brown did when Jaylen Brown led them to a 53 wins last season. My least favorite timeline is that that Celtics team for this season is significantly worse than what the Jaylen Brown team was because I've been a a Jason Tatum backer and supporter for a very long time. And I kind of hate some of the the conversations and narratives that be around Jason Tatum. So, I want to see him and the team look successful, but boy would it hurt my heart and my feelings if they aren't as good next season. But I do also like Jaylen Brown. I'm gonna put the Brooklyn Nets into the I'm intrigued thing. Um Mike Brown, I really like him as a prospect. The way Jagger Jerger Drummond Jagger Demon was playing in this his summer league made me interested. They traded for Julius Randall. And now that we're in a world where like no team is actively tanking. I think a team like the Brooklyn Nets who had been bad on purpose last season automatically add some extra charm to the team. I don't think it's an awful awful roster. I don't think it's a good roster either, but they got some very interesting stuff. I was at open run and got to see Danny Wolf play and he looked pretty solid at least in this open run. Who knows how much that'll translate to the NBA season. I'm also recognizing I got a lot of ads for some air airfare. Can I do this differently? Nah, this don't work. Or maybe it does. Yeah, it does. All right, cool. Now those ads are gone. If you want to add, damn, you got to pay me like See just did. All right, so now we go to the Charlotte Hornets. Yo, be before Before they pull off the LaMelo trade and then also I guess the Miles Bridges trade. That team was a two words must see TV team, but they've fallen down a little bit, man. They were one of my favorite. They I think they were literally my favorite team to watch the second half of the season last year. They play played a fun brand of basketball. Everybody was eating. The defense was good. Moose was getting all the offensive rebounds. LaMelo had them going. Khan was looking like a great rookie until he hit his little wall later in the season. But without LaMelo, I guess I'm just a little bit less intrigued with them. So, I'm going to put them in the pretty fun tier. They did add, you know, I'm sorry, retain Kobe White, who's one of my favorite players in the league, which I like. I like Nas Reed's fit over there. Like I don't again in a vacuum I don't love the LaMelo ball trade, but I think the team still could be decent. But overall, I think they lost some of their fun factor about not having a LaMelo. It's LaMelo Ball. Say what you want about LaMelo, his crazy ass penthouse in Charlotte or the man shouldn't be on the streets driving. He's super fun to watch B play basketball. So, let me get my first two uh two words. Must see TV team out of the way. This is of course 100% my biases. Um, I'm gonna try my very best to watch all 82 games like I do every single season, but I think this is the most I've been excited for individual season, even though uh my newly acquired shooting guard uh came out and said, uh, we have the potential to be really good, but we also have the potential to be really bad, which is like it's real. You know what I mean? So, like for me, I'll be there regardless. But for you, oh, the ads are back now. They're gone. But for you who are who have no attachment to the Chicago Bulls, I could see most people probably having the Bulls in this tier or this tier because I think that Cayla Wilson is gonna bring hella highlights with with like Josh Giddy running the break, but the average fan will probably have him over here, but for me, two words must see TV. Next up with the Cleveland Cavaliers into the Love It. I know some people are probably bored with the way the Cavs have played over the last couple seasons. I still look at them as a really good and fun regular season team. Just waiting for James Harden to get that contract to stay. Then we get the Dallas Mavers, a team I haven't thought about too much. I actually really like the Mavericks off seasonason from trading for Santi Alama, Zachary Reach, of course, Cooper Flag in year two. Uh, this I'm teetering between Love It and Pretty F. That's where I met with this Dallas Maverick. See, Carrie Irvin back. I got to go. Love it. I just remember Carrie Urban to be back. Oh, Gary Urban back. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Uh, D uh Denver Nuggets. Denver Nuggets. I'm going to put them back in the two words. Must see TV. recognize that maybe the last season was the season that they wanted, but Jo by himself was enough. You add in Jamal Murray's coming off the All-Star appearance. I just went on numbers on the board and said there's no way Christian Brown doesn't bounce back, right? Nobody on the panel believe um agreed with me, but I think there's a chance Christian Brown is better this season. And they just find a way to play really fun games at the end of the day. Like when you talk about an 82 game regular season, I think having one of the best players in the world, if not the best player in the world, automatically bumps your score up because you never know if he's going to have a 20 18 game or something like that, a 30, 15, and 12 game and and those type of things are ridiculous or hit a game winner or lose to a Washington Wizards team that had lost 18 in a row. You never really know what you're going to get with the Denver Nuggets. Detroit Pistons, I I I think they're going to be in my pretty fun tier. You know, they play a brand of basketball that I feel like years ago would be really prime for who I was as a viewer of basketball. I still do like them as a team, don't get me wrong, especially when they bring back Jaylen Durham, whatever the hell that's going to be, but I don't know. May maybe maybe it's not the team itself, but I'm looking at what their offseason was and thinking to myself, hm, that was kind of underwhelming. And maybe I'm grading them unfairly because of how underwhelming their offseason was. Golden State Warriors, I'm sorry. Listen, Steph Curry as a machine can only do too much as far as my watchability goes. He is one of the best shows over the last 18 years in the NBA. No if ends, buts about it, but I think I might be grading them differently just like I graded the Detroit Pistons differently because I look at their offseason. I say, "Ew." And because of that, I'm not really interested in like, of course, I'm interested to watching Steph Curry, but like who's number two? Who's your second most exciting player that you're looking to watch with the Golden State Warriors? Is it is it Yako? You tell you tell me like the drop off between Curry and player two when it comes to watchability is ridiculous. Especially with Jimmy Butler's gonna be out with an injury. So So while they are a better team than what their Brooklyn Nets team is next to them, when it comes to the watchability, it's just Curry, bro. It's just Curry. And that's not enough for me no more. I want to see Curry have another star next to him. I want him to have another very watchable player. If Jimmy Butler was here, that would raise them at least one tier, maybe even two tiers. But the fact that Jimmy Ba's gonna miss if not the entire season, but most of the season. I gotta go into my I'm intrigued, but I'm like, h I'll put into um Freddy's gonna be back. I think that changes some things. KD, I'm in Thompson, Shingle. It's a nice fun team. I'll put them for now. I'm put them in pretty fun with the possibility of moving up to love it by the end of the video. Obviously, Indiana Pacers, I'm going to love it. And I think it's just having a year basically having a uh yeah, truly a gap year. You know, when I graduated, um, can I use the word graduated? When I left college, I told my family, I'm gonna take a gap year. I'll be back. I'm gonna go back to school. I never went back to school. I never went back to school. The Pacers just had a gap year. And guess what? They're going back to school with a a healthy Hallebertton, a new Zubots as their five guy. And I'm curious to see how good Hallebertton looks coming off a major injury. I'm I'm excited to see what him and Zubots look like as a twoman game where like when he I'm talking about Hallebertton when Hallebertton played with the Kings he had like him and Rashawn Holmes had a nice little connection but once he ended up in Indiana he was basically playing with a popping big and obviously he's running more than just picking and rolls the fiveman but like I'm curious to see how him and Zubots gels like there's a lot of good intrigue and obviously the team was really good last time they were healthy and on paper they look like a better team so I'm going to put them in a lot I cannot wait to watch this team play the Clippers go out a team. No. Right. And we talk we we we talking about Grady and and Brandon Ingram, right? I'm intrigued by that team. I'm intrigued. We did our breakout players for the 2026 2027 season. One guy that I had number one on my list was Kobe Sanders. I can't wait to see what Kobe Sanders looks like. I can't wait to see how the NBA physicality impacts Keen Waggler in his first NBA season. Ruhachi Mororrow just switched to the other uh the other arena, but overall not the most fun team on paper. So, I'm putting them in intrigue. The Lakers are two words must see TV. They, you know, Luca Donuch, Austin Reeves, uh JJ Reic at the helm. I just I don't know. Lucer, Luca is just enough. And his supporting cast maybe not the greatest, but like I'm trying to compare what I was saying with the Warriors, right? With the Warriors, it's just Steph Curry and then a big falloff. While the Lakers are a ton of Luke Dodgers, the falloff between Luke and Austin Reeves when it comes to watchability is a big one, but it's not that crazy. And then you do have the question marks about like how would Walker Kesser look after getting paid and getting traded for or you know who's gonna defend anything. Like I think a lot of my intrigue when it comes to Love It Pretty Fun or Two Words must see TV has to do with like the questions I've personally had for these teams and watching to see if they can answer those questions or what the answers to those questions are or if they some of these they won't be able to answer question. Like there's a world the Lakers defense is trash after us asking how are they going to defend. There's a world where they figure it out and I can't wait to see. The Memphis Grizz is one of my most underrated picks here. I cannot wait. I'll say it again. I think I said in the video last week, I cannot wait to watch the Memphis Grizzlies play basketball. And part of me feels like this is just like offseason thing where I look at their roster and I really like Cam Boozer as a player. I really like Zack Edy when he's healthy and I re I you know there's a lot of players on this roster that I really like. Ty Jerome and and Si Cow. Like these are guys that I really love and I can't wait to watch them. The only thing is I think there is also a world we're 30 games into the season and it don't look as interesting as I think it will and then they go from a team that's really high on my watchability to a team that's really low. But as of today, I cannot wait to watch the Memphis Grizzlies play basketball. I just can't. I I don't know. That's really hot. They're not going to be better than most of the teams beneath them. I understand. Again, this is not ranking them based on how good they going to be cuz sometimes a good team could be summer boring and sometimes a bad team or mediocre team could be really fun. You feel me? Um, you would think immediately you go to two words musty TV because Jonian is on the new team, but I actually feel like I'm more of a love it for this team. I think I'm more of a lover for this team. I I think it's some some fit issues and stuff like that that like they're going to have to to wrinkle out, but I'm I'm definitely seated. I'm definitely seated, but maybe just not the two words one. Um, the Bucks, I'm not going to lie, and I feel bad because now that I look at the rest of these teams, the Bucks have mess around and be the only team, and I'm not going to lie to you, but the year after you trade your superstar players always a tough one. And I said, I don't think this roster is as bad as some of the other rosters when like some of the other superstar players got traded. Um, but I also don't think it's going to be very good or very fun. Tyler Herro's talking about the chip that he's playing with on the shoulder. I love that for him and I hope that he goes out there and balls out and then now they go from not not gonna lie to I'm intrigued or pretty fun. But as of today, if every team invited me to an open practice right now, I got all 30 NBA teams inviting me to open practice. The one that would be dead ass last on my list for attendance would be this thing. And it's nothing against them. Actually, nothing against them at all because last time I was in Milwaukee, they showed me nothing but great love and hospitality. But like the roster itself, it again, it's year one. Now, they do got two lottery picks that they can I really like Braden Burries for a while when the Bulls projected to be the ninth overall team before we jumped up to where we jumped up to. Braden Bur is the guy that I wanted the Bulls to draft. Obviously, you jump up, you get Caleb Wilson, but like I'm excited to see him play, but for the most part, it's it's a I'm not going to lie. Hey, two words must see TV for the Minnesota Timber Wolves. I'm sorry. I I see Melo earlier with the Charlotte Hornets. Whether it's going to equate to a finals appearance or conference finals appearance or nothing close to that, I don't care. Minnesota always detained as pretty fun to watch for me. And now they add LaMelo Ball. Sign me up. When was the last time Rudy Go Bear had somebody that could throw him the ball? Tell me that. Tell me that. When was the last time he had a point guard that could and I know he ain't got the greatest of hands, but damn it, he gonna score sometime. Um, the Pelicans are a tough team. On paper, a lot of interesting talent, young talent, Jeremiah Fier, Dear Queen. Older talent, older talent like a Trey Murphy, Zion, and stuff, but obviously it hasn't been able to work. You can look at that second half of the season where they were okay. I think they were close to like a 500 team. For the most part, I think it's more of I'm intrigued. You know, if they start playing a little bit better, I could definitely move them up. But, h New York Knicks have to be two words must see TV coming off a championship run. Um, even deeper than that. Hypothetically, they lost in the finals. I still really enjoy watching that team play. So, got to keep it there. Jaylen Brunson is a absolute stud and I have some level of admiration for the smaller guards and the fact that like he was the smallest guard to be a finance MVP since I don't know who. Um, got to love it. Got to love it. And the team camaraderie, if that's the right word, has been 10 out of 10, especially during that run. So, yeah, I'm also putting OKC. Same thing. Every year y'all make fun of me because I really like watching OKC basketball. And some of y'all look at it as like, I don't know, petty ball or whatever. I I really like watching OKC. I think the defense is as real as it gets. And they also still have some of their questions. You know, how would Chad Homegrren look after what happened to him in the conference finals last season? Who's going to step up? Not saying that Aaron Wiggins and Isaiah Joe were super important to like the championship runs because a lot of those guys end up losing a lot of their minutes in the postseason, but when you talk about an 82 game regular season, you do need guys that have filled the Lud Dort shoes and the Wiggins and you said Joe Shoes. I I don't think it's going to matter as much come postseason, but like will you see a Topic? Will you see I mean it's going to be a lot of Jerry McCain and AJ AJ Mitchell for sure, but somebody else also got to soak up some of those minutes. I'm just excited to see who's gonna be the Orlando Magic. I'm gonna put Orlando in the pretty front tier. I'm putting them in pretty fun tier. Um, they didn't do a ton this off seasonason. They ended the season pretty solid. Got to the postseason, almost took down the one seed. End up blowing that, but whatever. Must see TV also has to go to the Philadelphia 76ers. What can you say? They added LeBron James, they added Jaylen Brown. They were also already fun to watch with VJ and Maxi in the back court. And then you get what you get from process. And then now, boom, ba boom, musty TV. And I do want to say once you get to the tiers, there's no ranking within the tiers. Some of y'all are weird like that, Kenny. How can the how can the Bulls be before the 76ers? They're not. They're in the same tier. They literally in the same tier. They This is not a competition. They are the same to me. Um Suns go pretty fun. I They always tell you that the year the year after the surprise year is tougher than the surprise year. And I do believe that the Suns surprised us last season. They made some trades, right? Whether I agree with what they gave up for Miles Bridges or not, they did make some trades. And Miles Bridges is a good ball player. Mau Watt should be a real rotational player this year after only playing what eight minutes a game last season. And then I picked Rashir Fleming as one of the breakout players and just meaning that he's going to be a real rotational player this season. They also got Colin Gillespie, the guy that I also predicted was going to break out who actually did break out. So like it's some fun stuff there, but like I think that the teams I have above them will be more enjoyable for me to watch. Portland, I gotta go I gotta go pretty fun for Portland. And the reason they're going pretty fun, there's a couple reasons. I cannot wait to see what the back court of Damen Lillard and John looks like. That's one. Second is Scoo Henderson ended the season so good and I I just feel like I can't use the word lost in a shuffle because he's better than most of the people that will be coming off that bench. But like you just use a top three pick on bro like four years ago and yes he's been in and out of injury. Started his career with an injury. Started the season with an injury but he had a what a 30 ball in the playoffs with zero assists and he's playing off the ball. He's playing pretty solid stuff. I'm curious to see where he ends up landing as far as rotations go. I'm excited to see Michael Nory with an opportunity to like maybe get in a second year on his contract which is still nuts to me. And then obviously you got all the drama about the new owner and everything. So like it's gotta be pretty funny. Kings. Kings. You know what? You also going in. I'm not gonna lie to you. I think you're also going in. I'm not gonna lie to you. You got your guy Daryus A. Coven. I hope he ends up being exactly what you need him to be. But but I can't lie to you. Those West Coast games going to come on and I'm going to have the option to either watch a Warriors game, a Kings game, a Lakers game. And I'm the Kings are going to be the last choice every single one of those towns unless they're the only West Coast team. So, they have to go. No, I'm not gonna lie. Next, we gonna have to go back here with all our ads because we have another Oh, no. No, we don't. No, we don't. Look at that. Boom. The Spurs. Two words. Musty TV. Can you tell that I love watching I I enjoy I enjoy basketball. Everybody's musty TV. Toronto Raptors have to go to Love It. Assuming Assuming Kawhi Leonard is on the team. I just I don't know. Kawawaii Scotty CMBB. Anyway, Utah Jazz has to go to love it tier. I'm intrigued. Oh, did that mean I go to him? No. No. Uh, I'm gonna put him in pretty fun. I could put him in pretty fun. I'm put him in pretty fun. I'm excited to see Jiren Jackson Jr. I think you only played what three games with them last season. I'm excited to see what their starting lineup looks like going into the next season and how much you see all of the bigs play together from Lowry to Nerk to Jiren Jackson Jr. Excited to see what to their young players take a next step. Whether it be Ace, whether it be Cody, whether it be uh Isaiah, whether it be another jump from Kee, I don't know, but they got a lot of intriguing guys there and they're actually going to try to win basketball games completely next season. And then lastly, Washington Wizards might I got to put them in a love it. I got to put them in love. I ain't going to lie. I ain't gonna lie. Trey Young and Anthony Davis. You know, you don't know what you're gonna get from those guys necessarily, but like these young guys just got thrusted up into an opportunity to play with two guys that are trying to win today and the the Wizards are trying to win today after they just got AJ Debons. So, like I think they're going to play a lot of fun games. The only reason that I'm thinking about maybe bringing them down is I hate their jerseys and I do believe you have to have good jerseys to be in this, but like their jerseys are pretty bad. Can we agree? Can we agree? I think we can agree. Do I feel good about this? I mean, it feels weird to have the Warriors down here with these teams. I'll maybe move the Warriors up just out of respect, but I don't feel good about it. Yeah, it's it's the first row. LIKE I SAID, I'LL DO IT AGAIN BEFORE THE SEASON START. I think we got 70 something more days left before the season starts. I'll do it again 20 games to the season, maybe 40 games to the season, 60 games to the season. Uh but no, I can't wait. I always lock in around this time of the year and I am locked and I can't wait to do more content for you.