What Silver means by this is that, if you chart team win-loss records by season, you get an interesting phenomenon: a bulge of teams that win 40 to 50 games and a paucity of those who win 30 to 39. In the four seasons since 2021-22, we’ve had 44 of the former and only 23 of the latter, and the disparity looks set to be even worse this season. The Milwaukee Bucks and Chicago Bulls may be the only teams that end up in the 30s, while 10 or more teams land in the 40s. Meanwhile, in 2023-24, seven teams lost at least 55 games, and in 2021-22 and 2024-25, six did. For comparison, we haven’t had a season where seven teams won at least 55 games since 2010-11, and we’ve only had six twice in the 11 full seasons since.
New York Times
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