What NBA Teams Are Benefiting From Lockout

If you are looking for teams that have benefited from the lockout, you need to look at teams who are ready to play after only a few short weeks of practice. These may not be the teams with the best talent, but these are the teams that are ready to go now and will have the legs to get through a tough 66-game sprint of a season. When you are looking at the Western Conference, there are two teams that automatically come to mind: the Memphis Grizzles and the Oklahoma City Thunder. Both teams are young, which means that there players are more apt to survive this type of season. Also, both teams are almost completely intact from last season, which means that they don’t have to incorporate new blood into the lineup, which could hinder some teams considering that there was almost no training camp this season.

In the Eastern Conference, the team that may have benefited most from the lockout was the Miami Heat. Not only do they have one of the best starting lineups returning from last season, but the lockout also took a lot of attention off of a team that was reviled last season. Expect big things from the Heat this year.