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Last week, yours truly took a somewhat wild stab at sorting out the NBA's 30 depth charts ahead of training camps opening. This week, we're tipping things off by cranking the Speculation-O-Meter up to 11.

By that, I mean, it's time for win-loss projections.

Inevitably, many (if not most) of these prognostications will be way off. There's no telling who, exactly, will be injured or for how long, how new teammates will mesh (I'm looking at you, LeBron James, Kevin Love and Kyrie Irving) or how first-year coaches will adapt to their new surroundings.

In truth, we're not here to be perfect. Rather, we're here to give you an idea of where teams stand in relation to one another and about how well each should fare within that framework.

What we think we know is that, based on what went down last season and over the summer, the Western Conference will once again be much stronger than the East, with perhaps 11 squads among the former capable of finishing with records of .500 or better.

What we don't know is, well, everything else. But what the heck? Let's give these projections a shot anyway, going from East to West, and from the bottom to the top in each conference.