5 Freezing Cold takes the San Antonio Spurs are destroying this season

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San Antonio Spurs DeMar DeRozan (Photo by Ronald Cortes/Getty Images)

Offender: Bleacher Report

I know the San Antonio Spurs didn’t look like they’d make much noise considering their performance last season, but this prediction was ridiculous from the start. Last season’s team was plagued by two defensive black holes getting way too many minutes at the wing position. Still, the team won 45.1 percent of its games despite having the fifth-worst defense in the league.

This December prediction from Bleacher Report had this year’s Spurs finishing with a 40.2 percent winning percentage, a mark they haven’t fallen to since the 1996-97 season. Those 29 wins had San Antonio with a 15 percent probability of reaching the NBA playoffs.

Forward to present day, and the Spurs have won 59.3 percent of their games, a mark better than each of the last three seasons.

I get it — it’s rough having to predict how all 30 NBA teams will fare in an upcoming season full of more unknowns than usual. I don’t blame the author for thinking the Spurs might be a below .500 team, but the degree to which he was off here is what deserves to be called out.

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