The NBA season kicked off Tuesday night and with it came the same storyline we’ve seen for the third October in a row: can any team conceivably beat the Golden State Warriors?



For the past two seasons, the answer has been a resounding no as the team effortlessly collected two straight championships against the best the rest of the NBA could throw at them. The answer this year? Also probably no.



According to 538’s projection model for this season, the Golden State Warriors enter 2018-19 with a 49 percent chance of winning it all. Oddsmakers are even higher with Pinnacle pricing the team’s chances with an implied probability of 62 percent. Even on the low end of the spectrum, those are absurd numbers that point to the Warriors’ sheer dominance over the rest of the field. It really is Golden State vs. Everybody.



Optimistically, it’s an interesting challenge for the other 29 teams to find a way to stop the villainous Bay Area...