NBA official Eastern strength list: bucks heat green army nets top four

2. Heat

3. Celtic

4. Net

76

7. Walkers

8. Magic

10. Eagle

12. Wasps

13. Nix

14. Piston

15. Knights

Last seasons regular season champion bucks were firmly in the first place, while the heat and Celtics, who entered the finals, were ranked second and third.

The nets will usher in Owen and Durant two core comeback, experts are also more optimistic about them, they ranked in the fourth. The Raptors, who left both Ibaka and Pau Gasol, finished fifth.

Tragically, though the Hornets chose Saura Mello Bauer this summer and spent 120 million dollars to bring in Hayward, a big free-market fish, they were still ranked 12th in the East.