http://espn.go.com/nba/hollinger/playoffodds

This seems pretty reasonable. I would put our worst case at 25 wins, 41 losses and our best case at 38 and 28 given everyone keeps their health and gets along. The only way to improve on 38 and 28 is if Danny hits a home run at the trading deadline to make us a dangerous team heading into the playoffs, ie we magically acquire DH12, De-RON, and GAS-ol and it works out great and we are set for the following 5 years. A lot has to go right obviously for that to happen.

I project the Celtics as constructed to finish at 34 and 32 and have to face Chicago or Miami in the 1st round assuming no major structural changes to their line-up. If there are major structural changes to their line-up due to injury or trade then the results are likely to be different.

In other words, I have spent twenty minutes talking about absolutely nothing that is not known to the basketball blogging community.