The NBA’s Eastern Conference looks very, very different than it did just a few weeks ago. The Milwaukee Bucks rocked the basketball universe by shipping off Jrue Holiday to Portland in exchange for Damian Lillard, who everyone assumed would eventually end up on the Miami Heat. Holiday, meanwhile, found his way to Boston after the Celtics had already added Kristaps Porzingis. The result is two Eastern Conference powers who seem to be on a collision course. But is the NBA ever really that simple?

And Philadelphia is still hoping to crash the party, though they’ll have to solve their James Harden problem first. Can they actually contend without him? 

Brian Windhorst returns for day two of our NBA season preview, and this time he tells us everything we need to know about the East.

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