So, Part II! Expect a friend to get in to this soon.

WEST


1. San Antonio Spurs, 58-24: The Spurs didn't lose anybody more important than 41.2%-shooting Gary Neal, who had a whopping two wins per game by WS. If you actually go by WS, than DeJuan Blair was actually more important, although they did lose Blair too. Still, expect improve from Green, Leonard, and other rising stars on the Spurs.
2. Los Angeles Clippers, 56-26: The Clippers were one of the top teams in the conference by projected wins last season, with fifty-nine of them instead of fifty-six total. I'm not sure about how much head coaches influence their teams, but I'm pretty sure Doc Rivers is better than Vinny del Negro. And dealing Eric Bledsoe's 3.7 WS for the combined 6.1 WS of JJ Redick and Eric Bledsoe should be fine. So what's wrong? Um, not much. Maybe besides Chauncey Billups gone. And Lamar Odom. And Caron Butler.
3. Oklahoma City Thunder, 56-26: Well, the Thunder rolled last season with a 60-22 W-L, a double-digit gap between their ORtg and DRtg, and a 64-18 W-L. But losing Kevin Martin never helps, and, well, their bench sucks.
4. Houston Rockets: 53-29: HOUSTON! Well, most of the core players were staying here. But they did lose a lot of guys in trades last season. They replaced them with other guys, but they did lose a lot of value from their 50 projected wins last season and 45 actual wins. Wait, what? Dwight Howard, you say? Okay, scratch that then!
5. Memphis Grizzlies: 52-30:
The team that just came in second in the West is back! Without coach Lionel Hollins. The most important player they lost? Darrell Arthur. So why does everybody hate this team now?
6. Golden State Warriors: 50-32:
Obviously, Andre iguodala and maybe even a quasi-healthy Andrew Bogut will help. But their points differential last year pegged them as a 44-38 team. With a Iguodala there, they'll play a little better, but don't pick them to win the West yet.
7. Denver Nuggets, 46-36: Well, after 57 wins last year, you might not have expected 46. But they did fire their catch, George Karl. Third-most-important player by WS Danillo Gallinari is out for a pretty long period of time. The fifth-most-important-by-WS-but-generally-considered-more-important Andre Iguodala? Also gone. Forty-six suddenly sounds a lot more generous than it used to.
T8. Minnesota T-Wolves, 45-37: Kevin Martin and more Kevin Love certainly help.
T8. Dallas Mavericks, 45-37: With the 10,000,000,000 sort-of-major free-agent signings Mark Cuban signed off on this year, this team should improve by six wins from their last projected win total.
10. New Orleans Pelicans, 40-42
11. Los Angeles Lakers, 38-44: Note to Lakers fans: nobody likes you.
11. Portland Trailblazers, 38-44: Their bench really sucked last year, but maybe they'll improve 5-6 wins with the new bench.
13. Utah Jazz, 32-50: Wow. The Jazz suck. Commence applause.
14. Sacremento Kings, 28-54: When the Maloof brothers tried to sell and move the Kings, I was kind of wondering if nobody would put in a bid. 
15. Phoenix Suns, 23-59

I might do a series where I get friends in to voice their predictions. I don't know, but for now, here's mine.

EASTERN CONFERENCE

1.) Miami Heat, 60-22: Just pretend you're surprised. If LeBron leaves, though, they'll probably fall out of the Top ten teams.

2.) Chicago Bulls, 56-26: Derrick Rose is back! (Who knew?) And, you know, Joakim Noah will probably play more than sixty-four games this year. The Bulls need as much offense as they can from their top players: they ranked twenty-ninth in team PPG last season.

3.) Indiana Pacers, 53-29: Speaking of teams that sucked on offense last season, the Pacers were first in DRtg last year but twentieth on ORtg. Interestingly enough, their "Pythagorean Wins" were three higher than their total wins. Expect slight improvement with the additions of Luis Scola and C.J. Watson, although they'll probably get more out of regression to the mean than out of their bench.

4.) New York Knicks, 50-32: Did you know that Chris Copeland was New York's sixth-highest scorer last season? Behind Steve Novak in fifth and Raymond Felton in third? And that they lost Copeland and Novak for some salary relief and Andrea Bargiani? (Scratch the salary relief, then.) This team will decline from last year.

5.) Brooklyn Nets, 49-33: Now with a trio of ex-Celtics and the league's most expensive roster! The Nets were three games better than they should have been, but Garnett/Pierce/Terry minus all the players the Nets sent to Boston is more than three wins, so expect no change from the forty-nine wins of last season.

6.) Atlanta Hawks, 47-35: I don't get why people are all pegging the Pistons here, given that the Pistons won a whopping twenty-nine games last season. Josh Smith is a good player, but he isn't worth twenty games. The Hawks, on the other hand, replaced Smith with more cost-efficient Paul Millsap and shouldn't really be pegged to decline 2.3 wins.

7.) Detroit Pistons, 40-42: Here's a more reasonable spot for the Pistons. Have I mentioned that I really like Greg Monroe? 

7.) Cleveland Cavs, 40-42: Andrew Bynum and half an extra season of Anderson Varejao is what they got, not LeBron James: (see: 2014, Grant Blair, hope.) Anthony Bennett wasn't the best pick they could have made.

9.) Wizards
10.) Raptors
11.) Bucks
12.) Bobcats. The last four or so teams in the East are like a World Sucking Championship. All we need now is the national team of Whateverostan.
13.) Celtics
14.) Magic
15.) Sixers. See what I mean?