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Brooklyn Nets - $117.04 million
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Highest-paid player: Allen Crabbe ($19.33 million)
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Average player salary: $7.31 million
The Nets will finally own their first-round draft pick in 2019, but based on how they've played thus far this season, they look primed for a late-lottery pick come draft day.
Their scrappy squad full of mid-career journeymen and formerly rejected players from other teams have banded together as one of the most cohesive units, and Jarrett Allen has all the makings of the next great traditional big man in the league.
Denver Nuggets - $119.69 million
Highest-paid player: Paul Millsap ($29.23 million)
Average player salary: $7.48 million
The Nuggets agonizingly missed out on the playoffs over the last 2 seasons in the last 2 games of the regular season calendar, but they look primed to secure home-court advantage in the first round of the playoffs this season.
What has impressed people most, other than Jokic's All-NBA play, is the fact that they've been able to grind out wins despite missing out on multiple vitally important players, going on a seven-game winning streak without the likes of Gary Harris, Will Barton and Torrey Craig, not to mention players like Isaiah and Michael Porter Jr who have yet to take the floor this season.
Utah Jazz - $113.07 million
Highest-paid player: Rudy Gobert ($22.74 million)
Average player salary: $7.53 million
The Jazz finished last season on a 29-6 streak to raise themselves from 10th place in the Western Conference standings to fifth and saw it fit to bring virtually the same roster back for this season.
Their cold perimeter shooting thus far this season, however, has made replicating last season's formula much more difficult this time around, as they have struggled for the consistent offense other than Donovan Mitchell.
Landing Kyle Korver for Alec Burks may be a win, but it doesn't move the needle enough for them right now. They look primed to make a deadline-day trade move right now.
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