Short of a key injury – the loss of Fred VanVleet is a killer for the Rockets – and endless speculation – no, Jayson Tatum isn’t “super-human,” as one national broadcaster suggested the other night – it takes Caitlin Clark-type vision to glean much of anything from the NBA preseason.

Fortunately, with these new binoculars, I can see the court with the best of them.

And what I’ve seen this preseason – in small doses, mind you – is three teams who are going to surprise a lot of people this year.

That’s not necessarily good news for mainstream basketball fans, who have come to despise two of these franchises in recent years and who think the third team resides in Maine.

Let’s examine …

Boston Celtics

It took the new-look club all of about 11 minutes to answer one of the biggest question

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