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NBA season preview: Rankings, predictions and what to know for all…

Opening night is October 20, and ESPN projects Oklahoma City at 60.7 wins while predicting the champion Knicks will win fewer games than last season; the missing tenth stays unaccounted for.

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorNBA opening night is tomorrow, and ESPN has ranked all thirty teams.

  2. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorOklahoma City is first, with a projected sixty point seven wins and a ninety-nine point nine percent chance of making the playoffs.

  3. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorNinety-nine point nine. I have covered treaties with worse odds of holding. Who holds the missing tenth of a percent?

  4. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorNobody. It's a rounding thing.

  5. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorSomebody owned it, Hank. Somebody sold it. I'd like to know where it was kept.

  6. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorESPN also predicts the Knicks, the defending champions, win fewer regular-season games than in 2025-26.

  7. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAnd Opta's own simulations have Oklahoma City at fifty-six point one, so the number depends on who you ask.

  8. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorTwo numbers for one team. A forger would be proud.

  9. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorMoving on.

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