We call them windows, and everybody in the NBA wants theirs.
The only thing harder than the years of focused work it takes to prop one open is keeping it that way. Aging curves are brutal, and the strictures of the league's collective bargaining agreement make it difficult to keep multiple impact players under contract through their prime years.
Which current contender has the best chance to keep its window open for a while? Whose projected production is most stable and certain?
One way to answer those questions is to count up the combined win shares of a team's most important players, and then figure out how sustainable that total is.
Here, we've isolated seven teams. With one exception, the Oklahoma City Thunder, their eight-man cores posted the highest combined number of win shares last season. OKC gets a seat at the table because of Kevin Durant, who missed a ton of time last year but appears ready to return at full strength.
Based on their cores' win shares, these seven teams are the league's current elite.
But how long will they stay t ...
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Article written by Grant Hughes