#9: NBA Eastern Conference Preview
Necessary Roughness Ep. 9: Full NBA Eastern Conference Preview
Welcome back to Necessary Roughness—your daily dose of raw sports takes riffing straight off the Twitter feed.
In this episode, we break down all 15 teams in the NBA's Eastern Conference heading into 2026-27. One of the wildest offseasons in recent memory completely reshaped this conference—a two-time MVP on the move, a superstar switching teams and another switching coasts, and a defending champion trying to run it back while everyone around them got better. We go division by division through last season's results, the trades and…
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