On average, 3.85 teams that make the playoffs one year didn't make them the next. On top of that, there has never been a season where the 16 team...
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On average, 3.85 teams that make the playoffs one year didn’t make them the next. On top of that, there has never been a season where the 16 team field was the same as the previous season. There’s only been one season where a conference had the same 8 teams as the previous season (2012 East).

Do you think that this pattern is likely to hold? Are the teams from the 2024 playoffs more resilient than previous teams? Or do you think that we’ll see more turnover?

For reference, here are the 16 playoff teams from last season.

Seed Team W-L
1 Boston 64-18
2 New York 50-32
3 Milwaukee 49-33
4 Cleveland 48-34
5 Orlando 47-35
6 Indiana 47-35
7 Philadelphia 47-35
8 Miami 46-36
1 Oklahoma City 57-25
2 Denver 57-25
3 Minnesota 56-26
4 Los Angeles Clippers 51-31
5 Dallas 50-32
6 Phoenix 49-33
7 Los Angeles Lakers 47-35
8 New Orleans 49-33

Data from Basketball Reference