Almost midway into the current 2014-15 NBA season, there seems to be winds of change happening in the world’s premier professional basketball league.
Apart from the fact that young and upstart teams like the Golden State Warriors in the West and the Atlanta Hawks in the East are leading the pack in their respective conferences, teams of world known NBA superstars are either in the lower portion of the team standing or worst, down at the cellar.
Superstars’ teams down in the dumps
With a 5-36 win loss record, the New York Knicks and Carmelo Anthony are not only the whipping boys in the Eastern Conference; they’re also the worst team in the NBA.
The Los Angeles Lakers and Kobe Bryant, toting a 12-27 win-loss slate, is also the second worst team in the Western Conference and the fourth worst in the league.
Teams of other big name NBA superstars who were earlier hyped to make it hassle-free to the playoffs are also playing mediocre basketball and are sporting losing records.
LeBron James and his Cleveland Cavaliers, who was touted as the new beast in the East, is just in the middle of the pack in the Eastern Conference with a 19-22 win loss record.
NBA scoring champion Kevin Durant and his Oklahoma City Thunder are also down in the dumps, with an 18-19 win-loss record in the West that is good for 10th place and most certainly out of the playoff picture, if the playoff started now, that is.
Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh and their Miami Heat, a two-time NBA champion in the past three years is also a so-so team this season with only a 17-22 win loss record to show at this point of the current NBA season.
The other superstars
The teams of the other NBA marquee players may not be sporting a losing record but most of them are still in the middle of the pack.
Derrick Rose and the Chicago Bulls are running fourth in the Eastern Conference with a 26-14 win-loss record but many believe that the team will make a bull run to the playoffs by the second half of the season.
Tim Duncan and his fellow superstars with the reigning NBA champion San Antonio Spurs are also not doing any better with its 24-16 win-loss slate, good for seventh spot in the Western Conference. The Spurs are expected to make it to the playoffs but experts highly doubt that this could be the year when they can repeat as NBA champion.
Dirk Nowitzi and his Dallas Mavericks are at fifth spot in the West with a 27-13 win-loss record. But this season is already a marked improvement from last year when the team was completely erased out of the playoff picture.
Even Chris Paul and Blake Griffin and their LA Clippers are also doing so-so with a 26-13 win-loss record good for sixth spot in the West.
If the scenario and the standings do not change before the NBA playoffs, then it is clear that the winds of change, the dawning of a new age, and the emergence of the new breed of NBA superstars have already set in to the league.