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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5d5422e8cd97843eda277786-2400/eae9ccfb52084cde98f1445e9edebd6b.jpg" border="0" alt="Former Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden meets with supporters before speaking at the Iowa Democratic Wing Ding at the Surf Ballroom, Friday, Aug. 9, 2019, in Clear Lake, Iowa. (AP Photo/John Locher)" data-mce-source="Associated Press" data-mce-caption="Former Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden meets with supporters before speaking at the Iowa Democratic Wing Ding at the Surf Ballroom, Friday, Aug. 9, 2019, in Clear Lake, Iowa. (AP Photo/John Locher)">Associated PressFormer Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.</img></div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>Former Vice President <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-joe-biden-bio-age-family-key-positions-2019-3">Joe Biden's</a> signature off-the-cuff speaking style has helped him cultivate a down-to-earth image, but his frequent gaffes have raised some questions about his viability as a candidate.&#xa0;</li><li>During the Iowa state fair, Biden made <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/09/biden-iowa-message-2020-1456132">a series of eyebrow-raising misstatements</a> in a row that had the Internet collectively cringing, including mistakenly saying that "poor kids are just as smart as white kids."</li><li>Biden's various controversial statements haven't hurt his poll numbers yet, largely because his base is made up of older and African-American voters who tend to be more moderate and less concerned with gaffes.&#xa0;</li><li>"When it comes to Biden, people might think his head is out to lunch but they know his heart is in the right place," one Democratic strategist told INSIDER.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>Former Vice President <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-joe-biden-bio-age-family-key-positions-2019-3">Joe Biden's</a> signature off-the-cuff speaking style has helped him cultivate a down-to-earth image, but it can also get him into trouble.&#xa0;Biden has been a self-admitted gaffe-machine throughout his entire political career, but his tendency to twist his words into a pretzel or make controversial comments has received more scrutiny than ever as he competes in a historically crowded field.The former vice president was mocked for <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-biden-mangled-campaign-web-address-democratic-debate-pete-buttigieg-2019-7">flubbing the address of his campaign website</a>&#xa0;in his closing statement during the second Democratic debate.And during the weekend of the Iowa state fair, Biden made <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/09/biden-iowa-message-2020-1456132">a series of eyebrow-raising misstatements</a> in a row that had the Internet collectively cringing, including:<ul><li>Accidentally saying that "poor kids are just as smart as white kids" while speaking to the Asian-Latino Coalition of Iowa. He later corrected himself and said he meant to say that poor kids are just as smart as wealthy kids.&#xa0;</li><li>Saying he valued "truth over facts" at another event.</li><li>Mixing up former British Tory leaders Margaret Thatcher, who was prime minister in the 1980s, and Theresa May, who was PM until earlier this year.&#xa0;</li><li>Claiming that while he was vice president, he met with survivors of the Parkland, Florida mass shooting - which happened in February 2018, over a year after he left the White House.&#xa0;</li></ul>Read more:&#xa0;<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-biden-gaffe-poor-kids-just-smart-white-kids-2019-8" data-analytics-position="1">Joe Biden made a glaring gaffe and said poor kids are 'just as smart as white kids'</a>Biden's camp predictably dismissed the criticism and concern over his gaffes as a primarily media-driven narrative that doesn't translate to Democratic voters themselves - and to some extent, they're right.&#xa0;Biden has remained the frontrunner of the Democratic race throughout multiple controversies, including changing his position on a controversial abortion-related rule after public backlash, accusations that he inappropriately touched multiple women, and fondly remembering his time working with notoriously pro-segregation Senators.&#xa0;<h2>Out of the entire Democratic primary electorate, Biden's base is least likely to be bothered by gaffes</h2>While his poll numbers slightly dipped after the first Democratic debate, Biden has maintained above 30% of the vote in Morning Consult's survey. Biden similarly holds a plurality of around a third of support among voters above the age of 50 and majority support among African-American voters, with 51% of black voters in South Carolina backing him in a recent Monmouth poll."Joe Biden isn't the frontrunner because he's first in the polls, it's because of who he's polling well with," Ford O'Connell, a veteran campaign strategist and <a href="https://gspm.gwu.edu/ford-oconnell">adjunct professor at George Washington University</a>'s Graduate School of Political Management, told INSIDER in a Wednesday interview.&#xa0;"Biden has the majority of support with African Americans, particularly African-American women and seniors. The reason why that matters is because those two groups traditionally turn out the most in Democratic primaries," he added.&#xa0;Older voters, in particular, are less likely to see Biden's gaffes as a major impediment to his candidacy, and will likely continue to support him as long as he is the most viable candidate to take on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-donald-trump-bio-age-family-key-positions-2019-4">President Donald Trump</a>.&#xa0;&#xa0;According to <a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/democrats-desire-for-electable-candidates-may-be-driven-by-older-voters/">a FiveThirtyEight analysis</a> from earlier this month citing recent polling from Gallup and YouGov/HuffPost, older voters' support for Biden is primarily motivated by wanting to get Trump out of office by any means possible, whereas younger voters prioritize nominating a candidate who aligns with their policy positions.&#xa0; Patrick Murray, the director of Monmouth's Polling Institute, <a href="https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/reports/monmouthpoll_sc_072519/">further wrote in late July</a> that "black Democrats tend to be more moderate than white primary voters. Biden is the best-known candidate currently occupying that lane."Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/second-democratic-debate-candidates-target-biden-obama-immigration-2019-7" data-analytics-position="8">2020 Democrats excoriated Joe Biden for his record on immigration and for repeatedly invoking Obama's name on the campaign trail</a>Michael Gordon, a Democratic strategist and principal at a strategic communications firm Group Gordon, characterized some of Biden's recent gaffes as "somewhere between mind-boggling and shocking" in an interview with INSIDER - but also said he didn't see them "having a significant impact on the race.""Voters tend to focus on whether they liked the person, what they stand for, and the substance of the issues," Gordon added. "With the proliferation of the Internet, people are more informed than they used to be. When it comes to Biden, people might think his head is out to lunch but they know his heart is in the right place."O'Connell said that Biden's gaffes will only become a campaign problem if they fundamentally threaten his perceived electability."Either the Democratic electorate has to believe that he can't go up against Donald Trump or someone else has to prove that they can," O'Connell said of Biden. "Until that happens, he's going to be the nominee."<h2>Commentators disagree on whether Biden's gaffes are fair game</h2>Both Gordon and O'Connell noted that Biden's gaffes pale in comparison to Trump's own frequent propensity to similarly gaffe (like when he recently misstated the location <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-says-mass-shooting-in-dayton-ohio-was-in-toledo-2019-8">of a recent mass shooting in Ohio</a>), and make outright false statements and/or highly inflammatory comments in his own public appearances.&#xa0;"Joe Biden's biggest enemy in terms of winning the nomination is Joe Biden. And it's not because he's making gaffes, it's the type of gaffes that question his fitness and whether or not he can go toe to toe with Donald Trump," O'Connell said.&#xa0;Several Biden staffers and other political commentators similarly denounced criticism of Biden's gaffes as petty and playing into Trump's hands. In instructing the media to "lay off" Biden, Washington Post columnist Paul Waldman argued that Biden's misstatements <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/08/12/lay-off-joe-bidens-gaffes/">have no bearing on what kind of president he'd be.</a>Read more:&#xa0;<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-biden-says-trump-is-fanning-flames-of-white-supremacy-2019-8" data-analytics-position="3">Joe Biden accused Trump of 'fanning the flames of white supremacy' in a blistering speech</a>But AlterNet's Cody Fenwick <a href="https://www.salon.com/2019/08/15/why-critics-should-not-lay-off-of-joe-bidens-embarrassing-gaffes_partner/">pushed back on Waldman's argument</a>, writing on Thursday that while some of Biden's slip-ups are undeniably honest mistakes, his other gaffes and comments on sensitive topics like race and gender could "reveal troubling prejudices" - like touting his work with pro-segregation senators - about his implicit attitudes on those topics.&#xa0;Fenwick argued that in the context of a Democratic primary, Biden needs to be fully battle-tested and scrutinized at every level before taking on Trump.&#xa0; "Not only would it be bad for Democrats to put forward a candidate who share some of Trump's failings, but this choice would also make it more difficult for that candidate to attack the president on these grounds," Fenwick wrote.Some of Biden's close allies are even concerned about the increased frequency of gaffes, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/457486-biden-allies-float-scaling-back-events-to-limit-gaffes">according to a report in The Hill,</a> and have even suggested limiting the number of his public appearances and especially those that occur during the afternoon and evening, when he is more likely to be tired and make questionable gaffes.&#xa0;But David Axelrod, a former senior adviser to President Barack Obama and host of "The Axe Files," publicly disagreed, <a href="https://twitter.com/davidaxelrod/status/1162020526036008960">tweeting that it was "bad advice."</a>"You can't cloister the candidate and win. He either can cut it or he can't, and the only way he can prove he can is to be an active and vigorous candidate," Axelrod argued. "He's running for president of the United States, for God's sake!"Read more:<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-biden-mangled-campaign-web-address-democratic-debate-pete-buttigieg-2019-7" data-analytics-position="7">Joe Biden mangled his campaign's web address at the end of the Democratic debate - and then Pete Buttigieg's campaign bought the domain name</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-biden-kamala-harris-go-easy-on-me-kid-2019-7" data-analytics-position="9">Joe Biden got skewered for asking Kamala Harris to 'go easy on me, kid' as they took the stage for the second Democratic primary debate</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/democratic-debate-andrew-yang-joe-biden-2019-07" data-analytics-position="6">Debates are great for candidates like Andrew Yang but bad for candidates like Joe Biden</a><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><keyword id="6355005" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="news">NEWS</keyword>: While the national press was hyperventilating about "gaffes," <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JoeBiden</a> was was the only top-tier candidate to gain ground in the early primary states. Voters value authenticity and they are focused on beating Donald Trump. Via <a href="https://twitter.com/MorningConsult?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MorningConsult</a> - <a href="https://t.co/cy0ohzBygj">pic.twitter.com/cy0ohzBygj</a>- Kate Bedingfield (@KBeds) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1161278775499341824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 13, 2019</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>After a short offseason, the <keyword id="6361805" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="NBA">NBA</keyword> is back, with training camps underway and preseason tipping off on Friday.</li><li>A flurry of activity has shaken up the standings.</li><li>The Lakers still top our power rankings as we head into the season.</li></ul>The longest season in NBA history led to the shortest offseason in history.The NBA is back, just two months removed from the bubble. The compressed offseason led to a flurry of activity, with the draft and free agency being held over about one week.The pecking order hasn't drastically changed, though some big names moved, and there are some teams on the rise and some on moving in the other direction.With training camps underway and preseason tipping off on Friday, here's a look at our <keyword id="10412181" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="nba-power-rankings">NBA power rankings</keyword>.* = lottery-pick rookie<h2>30. Detroit Pistons</h2>2019-20 record: 20-46, 13th in EastBiggest additions: Jerami Grant (F), Delon Wright (G), Mason Plumlee (C), Killian Hayes (G*)Biggest losses: Luke Kennard (G/F), Christian Wood (C)2020-21 outlook: The Pistons were active this offseason in re-shaping their roster, but it looks like just the beginning of a rebuild for a team with many questions at a lot of positions.<h2>29. Cleveland Cavaliers</h2>2019-20 record: 19-46, 15th in EastBiggest additions: Damyean Dotson (G/F), JaVale McGee (C), Isaac Okoro (G/F*)Biggest losses: Tristan Thompson (F/C)2020-21 outlook: The Cavs are in the midst of turning things over to the young core of Collin Sexton, Darius Garland, Kevin Porter Jr., and Isaac Okoro. Will a Kevin Love trade finally happen this season?<h2>28. New York Knicks</h2>2019-20 record: 21-45, 12th in EastBiggest additions: Austin Rivers (G), Nerlens Noel (C), Alec Burks (G/F), Obi Toppin (F*), Tom Thibodeau (coach)Biggest losses: Bobby Portis (F/C), Taj Gibson (C), Damyean Dotson (G/F)2020-21 outlook: The Knicks were patient and conservative this offseason, adding only cheap veterans to their young core. It's wise to continue a slow rebuild, but don't expect many more wins at MSG this season.<h2>27. Oklahoma City Thunder</h2>2019-20 record: 44-28, 5th in WestBiggest additions: Al Horford (F/C), George Hill (G), Trevor Ariza (F)Biggest losses: Chris Paul (G), Steven Adams (C), Dennis Schröder (G)2020-21 outlook: After wheeling-and-dealing through the offseason, the Thunder ultimately stripped away last year's surprising playoff roster for veterans and even more draft picks. OKC likely won't be an easy out, but it's hard to see them winning so many games again.<h2>26. Sacramento Kings</h2>2019-20 record: 31-41, 11th in WestBiggest additions: Hassan Whiteside (C), Frank Kaminsky (F/C), Tyrese Haliburton (G*)Biggest losses: Bogdan Bogdanovic (G/F)2020-21 outlook: The 2019-20 season was a letdown after the Kings narrowly missed the playoffs the year before. Sacramento wants to get back in the mix, and they'll need big seasons from De'Aaron Fox (who just signed a $163 million extension) and Marvin Bagley. <h2>25. Chicago Bulls</h2>2019-20 record: 22-43, 11th in EastBiggest additions: Patrick Williams (F*), Billy Donovan (coach)Biggest losses: Kris Dunn (G), Jim Boylen (coach)2020-21 outlook: The Bulls should improve with their coaching change. Though they have some nice talent at the top of their roster, their team's depth and core pieces are still in flux.<h2>24. Charlotte Hornets</h2>2019-20 record: 23-42, 9th in EastBiggest additions: Gordon Hayward (G/F), LaMelo Ball (G*)Biggest losses: Nic Batum (G/F)<div type="image" title="gordon hayward" height="968" width="1290" msid="79667317" hostid="261"></div>2020-21 outlook: Drafting LaMelo Ball and signing Gordon Hayward to a $120 million deal gave the Hornets one of the more notable offseasons in the league. But Ball is a rookie PG joining a young, growing core, and Hayward isn't enough to lift the Hornets to another tier by himself.<h2>23. San Antonio Spurs</h2>2019-20 record: 32-39, 10th in WestBiggest additions: Devin Vassell (G/F*)Biggest losses: Bryn Forbes (G)2020-21 outlook: The Spurs are going through a slow rebuild, though they nearly made the playoffs last year, so it's not as if they're tanking. Development from young guards like Lonnie Walker or Dejounte Murray could push the Spurs up the standings.<h2>22. Orlando Magic</h2>2019-20 record: 33-40, 8th in EastBiggest additions: noneBiggest losses: D.J. Augustin (G)2020-21 outlook The Magic have made the playoffs the last two years, but Augustin is quietly a big departure, versatile forward Jonathan Isaac will miss the season with a torn ACL, and the East has gotten better.<h2>21. Washington Wizards</h2><div type="image" title="Houston Rockets Russell Westbrook Rokit phones" height="1182" width="1576" msid="79667322" hostid="261"></div>2019-20 record: 25-47, 10th in EastBiggest additions: Russell Westbrook (G), Robin Lopez (C), Deni Avdija (F*)Biggest losses: John Wall (G)2020-21 outlook: The Wizards swapped Westbrook and Wall, giving Bradley Beal another back-court scoring partner (one not coming off a major injury). The Wizards should benefit from an infusion of talent, especially on the wing, with second-year forward Rui Hachimura and Deni Avdija, perhaps the steal of the draft.<h2>20. Memphis Grizzlies</h2>2019-20 record: 34-39, 9th in WestBiggest additions: Mario Hezonja (F)Biggest losses: Josh Jackson (G/F)2020-21 outlook: The surprise team of the 2019-20 season, the Grizzlies were on track to make the playoffs, though they benefited from an easy schedule before the league shut down. Perhaps we shouldn't write off Memphis again, but a step back from a young roster wouldn't be surprising, especially with Jaren Jackson Jr. recovering from a torn meniscus.<h2>19. Minnesota Timberwolves</h2>2019-20 record: 19-45, 14th in WestBiggest additions: Ricky Rubio (G), Ed Davis (F/C), Anthony Edwards (G/F*)Biggest losses: none2020-21 outlook: It's unclear how the trio of Rubio, No. 1 pick Edwards, and D'Angelo Russell will fit together, but the Wolves have gone all-in on chasing a playoff spot around Karl-Anthony Towns. This could be a fun, dynamic offensive team, but they may also be awful defensively and a bit choppy on offense with so many mouths to feed.<h2>18. Golden State Warriors</h2>2019-20 record: 15-50, 15th in WestBiggest additions: Kelly Oubre Jr. (G/F), Kent Bazemore (G/F), James Wiseman (C*)Biggest losses: none2020-21 outlook: Klay Thompson's torn Achilles is a devastating blow for a franchise looking to compete for a top-four seed once again. Stephen Curry is back and ready to re-reestablish himself as an elite player, but who else on this roster can be relied upon, from night to night?<h2>17. New Orleans Pelicans</h2><div type="image" title="Zion Williamson" height="1750" width="2334" msid="79667327" hostid="261"></div>2019-20 record: 30-42, 13th in WestBiggest additions: Steven Adams (C), Eric Bledsoe (G), Kira Lewis (G*)Biggest losses: Jrue Holiday (G), Derrick Favors (C), E'Twaun Moore (G)2020-21 outlook: The Pelicans were a winning team, by a healthy margin, in the 668 pre-bubble minutes Zion Williamson played last year. That's what they'll be counting on entering this season, as they surround the young core of Williamson, Brandon Ingram, and Lonzo Ball with capable veterans.<h2>16. Houston Rockets</h2>2019-20 record: 44-28, 4th in WestBiggest additions: John Wall (G), Christian Wood (C), Stephen Silas (coach)Biggest losses: Russell Westbrook (G), Robert Covington Jr. (F), Austin Rivers (G), Jeff Green (F), Mike D'Antoni (coach)2020-21 outlook: James Harden is a walking playoff appearance, and enough pieces are remaining in Houston to build a solid postseason contender. But will Harden's trade request erode team chemistry? Will the Rockets succumb and deal him to another team?<h2>15. Indiana Pacers</h2>2019-20 record: 45-28, 4th in EastBiggest additions: Nate Bjorkgren (coach)Biggest losses: Nate McMillan (coach)2020-21 outlook: The Pacers seem to be in flux. They've been a solid playoff team, albeit with a limited ceiling, but the futures of Victor Oladipo and Myles Turner seem to be in question.<h2>14. Atlanta Hawks</h2><div type="image" title="trae young" height="999" width="1332" msid="79667331" hostid="261"></div>2019-20 record: 20-47, 14th in EastBiggest additions: Bogdan Bogdanovic (G/F), Danilo Gallinari (F), Rajon Rondo (G), Kris Dunn (G), Onyeka Okungwu (C*)Biggest losses: Jeff Teague (G)2020-21 outlook: The Hawks were the big spenders of the offseason. Some of the moves were questionable fits with their existing roster, but they are undoubtedly improved, and their offense should carry them to a playoff seed.<h2>13. Toronto Raptors</h2>2019-20 record: 53-19, 2nd in EastBiggest additions: Aron Baynes (C), Alex Len (C)Biggest losses: Marc Gasol (C), Serge Ibaka (F/C)2020-21 outlook: The Raptors retained Fred VanVleet to keep together the successful, talented core that includes Kyle Lowry, Pascal Siakam, and OG Anunoby. The bad <keyword id="6355005" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="news">news</keyword> is they lost Ibaka and Gasol, two fulcrums on both ends, in free agency, hurting the Raptors' seamless chemistry. Toronto is in the midst of a tricky re-tooling.<h2>12. Phoenix Suns</h2>2019-20 record:34-39, 10th in WestBiggest additions: Chris Paul (G), Jae Crowder (F), Jalen Smith (F*)Biggest losses: Ricky Rubio (G), Kelly Oubre (G/F), Frank Kaminsky (F)2020-21 outlook: After going 8-0 in the bubble and narrowly missing the playoffs, the Suns swung a trade for Chris Paul to boost their back-court. With Devin Booker entering his prime as an elite offensive player and development from two-way stud Mikal Bridges and center Deandre Ayton, the Suns should reach the playoffs.<h2>11. Dallas Mavericks</h2>2019-20 record: 43-32, 7th in WestBiggest additions: Josh Richardson (G/F), James Johnson (F)Biggest losses: Seth Curry (G)2020-21 outlook: Richardson is an excellent two-way addition to a team historically good on offense and poor on offense last season. Now the Mavs need their front-court of Kristaps Porzingis and Dwight Powell to get and stay healthy. In the meantime, Doncic is an early MVP favorite.<div type="image" title="luka doncic.JPG" height="660" width="1321" msid="79667338" hostid="261"></div><h2>10. Philadelphia 76ers</h2>2019-20 record: 43-40, 6th in EastBiggest additions: Danny Green (G/F), Seth Curry (G), Dwight Howard (C), Doc Rivers (coach)Biggest losses: Josh Richardson (G/F), Al Horford (F/C), Alec Burks (G/F)2020-21 outlook: New GM Daryl Morey immediately changed the Sixers' awkward construction and shipped out size for shooting. This roster makes more sense, and while Ben Simmons and Joel Embiid may continue to be an awkward fit, the pieces around them may make it a little less burdensome on offense.<h2>9. Utah Jazz</h2>2019-20 record: 44-28, 6th in WestBiggest additions: Derrick Favors (F/C)Biggest losses: Ed Davis (F/C)2020-21 outlook: The Jazz were one <a href="https://www.insider.com/video-jamal-murray-consoles-donovan-mitchell-nuggets-jazz-game-7-2020-9">in-and-out, last-second three-pointer in a Game 7</a> from advancing past the first round of the playoffs. They'll welcome back second-leading scorer Bojan Bogdanovic (who missed the bubble), and with a leap from Donovan Mitchell, they'll be right back in the playoff mix this year.<h2>8. Boston Celtics</h2>2019-20 record: 48-24, 3rd in WestBiggest additions: Tristan Thompson (F/C), Jeff Teague (G), Aaron Nesmith (G*)Biggest losses: Gordon Hayward (G/F), Enes Kanter (C), Brad Wanamaker (G)2020-21 outlook: The Celtics will miss Hayward, but his absence will open up more opportunities for Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown. Thompson adds some size and defense to one of the league's smallest teams. The big question is if Kemba Walker's knee will be healthy enough to be the second or third scorer the Celtics need to contend.<h2>7. Portland Trail Blazers</h2><div type="image" title="damian lillard .JPG" height="870" width="1160" msid="79667344" hostid="261"></div>2019-20 record: 35-39, 9th in WestBiggest additions: Robert Covington Jr. (F), Derrick Jones Jr. (F), Harry Giles (F/C), Enes Kanter (C)Biggest losses: Trevor Ariza (F)2020-21 outlook: Arguably, no team had a better, cleaner offseason than the Blazers, who strengthened their wing and bigs rotations around Damian Lillard and C.J. McCollum at a minimal cost. They made the Western Conference Finals in 2019; can they re-emerge as pseudo-contenders again?<h2>6. Brooklyn Nets</h2>2019-20 record: 35-37, 7th in EastBiggest additions: Landry Shamet (G), Jeff Green (F/C), Steve Nash (coach)Biggest losses: Garrett Temple (G), Wilson Chandler (F)2020-21 outlook: On paper, the Nets might boast the best roster in the league. Of course, they're relying on one star (Kevin Durant) coming back from an Achilles tear and another (Kyrie Irving) with a checkered injury history. We'll need to see they're healthy, but if they are, look out. Under first-time head coach Steve Nash, the Nets will be must-watch TV.<h2>5. Denver Nuggets</h2>2019-20 record: 46-27, 3rd in WestBiggest additions: JaMychal Green (F/C)Biggest losses: Jerami Grant (F), Mason Plumlee (C)2020-21 outlook: Denver's chemistry and grit wowed the NBA world as they fought to the Western Conference Finals last year. If Jamal Murray's star turn in the bubble and Michael Porter Jr.'s rapid development are real, Denver will be a contender this year.<h2>4. Miami Heat</h2><div type="image" title="jimmy butler" height="843" width="1125" msid="79667350" hostid="261"></div>2019-20 record: 44-29, 5th in EastBiggest additions: Avery Bradley (G), Maurice Harkless (F)Biggest losses: Jae Crowder (F), Derrick Jones Jr. (F)2020-21 outlook: Miami's impressive Finals run overshadowed a solid but unspectacular regular season. Not much has changed on the roster, though Bam Adebayo and Tyler Herro could make leaps this season. The Heat deserve respect as conference champions but don't expect them to run over the East as they did in the bubble.<h2>3. LA Clippers</h2>2019-20 record: 49-23, 2nd in WestBiggest additions: Serge Ibaka (F/C), Luke Kennard (F)Biggest losses: Montrezl Harrell (F/C), JaMychal Green (F/C), Landry Shamet (G), Doc Rivers (coach)2020-21 outlook: The Clippers' meltdown in the second round of the playoffs and reported <a href="https://www.insider.com/kawhi-leonard-paul-george-star-treatment-bothered-clippers-teammates-2020-12">chemistry issues</a> have overshadowed what looked like the scariest team in the league for much of the regular season. They still have Kawhi Leonard and Paul George and a deep, talented roster. If the locker-room issues sort themselves out, they can easily contend for a championship.<h2>2. <keyword id="578134" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Milwaukee-Bucks">Milwaukee Bucks</keyword></h2>2019-20 record: 56-17, 1st in EastBiggest additions: Jrue Holiday (G), Bobby Portis (F/C), D.J. Augustin (G)Biggest losses: Eric Bledsoe (G), George Hill (G), Welsey Matthews (F), Robin Lopez (C)2020-21 outlook: Sure, the Bucks flamed out of the second round of the playoffs, botched a trade for Bogdan Bogdanovic, and still don't have Giannis Antetokounmpo's signature on the supermax contract extension. But they still have the reigning MVP and Defensive Player of the Year, a talented roster that upgraded by acquiring Holiday, and a proven effective system in the regular season. But this season is all about what happens in the playoffs.<div type="image" title="anthony davis lebron james" height="739" width="1479" msid="79667352" hostid="261"></div><h2>1. <keyword id="100883" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Los-Angeles-Lakers">Los Angeles Lakers</keyword></h2>2019-20 record: 52-19, 1st in WestBiggest additions: Montrezl Harrel (F/C), Marc Gasol (C), Dennis Schroeder (G), Wesley Matthews (F)Biggest losses: Danny Green (G/F), Dwight Howard (C), Avery Bradley (G), JaVale McGee (C)2020-21 outlook: The Lakers were the best team from start to finish last season, and they look poised to repeat this year. They upgraded the talent on their roster and got younger, crucial with a shortened offseason. LeBron James and Anthony Davis are locked in for the long-term, too. No other team has the same balance of talent and chemistry as the Lakers.

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5876b2a7ee14b651008b7d47-1067/residentialsmall.jpg" alt="waymo google self-driving car" data-mce-source="Waymo">Waymo</img></div></div></div>The self-driving car space is getting increasingly more cutthroat.The sheer number of lawsuits filed recently are a testament to that.Tesla, for example, is suing its former Autopilot director Sterling Anderson. The <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-sues-sterling-anderson-chris-urmson-data-breach-recruiting-violations-2017-1" target="_blank">lawsuit</a> claims Anderson stole data for a competing venture, Aurora Innovations, that hasn't even come out of stealth mode yet. Aurora denies the claims.Buried in that lawsuit, though, was some <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-says-uber-otto-purchase-demoware-2017-1" target="_blank">interesting commentary</a> on the competitive nature of the industry and the kind of culture it has bred:"In their zeal to play catch-up, traditional automakers have created a get-rich-quick environment. Small teams of programmers with little more than demoware have been bought for as much as a billion dollars. Cruise Automation, a 40-person firm, was purchased by General Motors in July 2016 for nearly $1 billion. In August 2016, Uber acquired Otto, another self-driving startup that had been founded only seven months earlier, in a deal worth more than $680 million."(Otto is currently at the heart of a <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/alphabet-injunction-uber-self-driving-cars-2017-3" target="_blank">lawsuit filed by Waymo</a>, Alphabet's self-driving-car company, alleging Uber stole intellectual property.)So why is it that tiny startups with little to no brand recognition are getting acquired for millions? AI specialists told Business Insider it has little to do with acquiring the startup's tech and everything to do with nabbing talent.That's because there's a serious lack of experts in the field of deep learning, a branch of artificial intelligence where computers learn on their own. Deep learning is key to advancing self-driving tech as it allows cars to learn safe driving at a much faster rate than traditional programming."The growth of demand is much faster than the rate of which we can produce people with PhDs or even master's in this area," Yoshua Bengio, head of the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms, told Business Insider. "There's just an explosion of interest from the industry... and it's like a fire growing on the prairie."<h2>Growth in demand</h2><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/58bd9a7ebe967324008b512a-1432/undefined" alt="alphaGo match" data-mce-source="Lee Jin-man/AP">Lee Jin-man/APAlphaGo plays Lee Sedol in the game of Go.</img></div></div></div>Machine learning has advanced rapidly in the last five years.In March of last year, a program developed by Google DeepMind, a London-based AI lab, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/watch-google-ai-world-champion-go-tournament-2016-3" target="_blank">beat a world champion</a> at the highly complex game of Go - a game that has more moves than there are atoms in the universe.That's not even the latest feat in artificial intelligence. In January, a bot developed by Carnegie Mellon University <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/four-poker-pros-lost-18-million-ai-libratus-2017-2" target="_blank">beat four of the world's best poker players</a> at Texas Hold 'Em, sweeping them of $1.8 million.Companies are only expanding their AI teams as the field rapidly develops."Because machine learning and artificial intelligence is growing, companies are poaching professors all the time," Geoff Gordon, an associate research professor of machine learning at CMU, told Business Insider.But automakers, in particular, are making massive investments in experts because they've begun their AI efforts late compared to traditional tech companies.Because deep learning has applications far beyond just self-driving cars, manufacturers are having to compete with each other and traditional tech companies.Only 28 companies have more than 10 deep learning specialists on staff, accounting firm KPMG wrote in a <a href="https://home.kpmg.com/tr/en/home/insights/2016/12/i-see-i-think-i-drive-i-learn.html" target="_blank">2016 report</a>. What's more, only six technology companies employ 54% of all deep learning specialists: Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, IBM, Intel, and Samsung."The traditional power and talent of the auto industry was based in their product development group," Gary Silberg, the head of KPMG's automotive unit, told Business Insider. "So they would hire these amazing mechanical and electrical engineers at the top schools of engineering and they would be part of product development.""You can't just turn on a dime and say, 'ok, now we are going to go recruit AI geniuses and computer scientists and expect them to come to work with us,'" Silberg continued.<h2>The bottleneck effect</h2><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/57d88a30077dccda0b8b5981-1920/uberassembly5 copy 0300000602still002.jpg" alt="uber driverless car" data-mce-source="Business Insider/Corey Protin">Business Insider/Corey Protin</img></div></div></div>Companies pursuing self-driving cars have turned to the universities with the brightest minds in the space to acquire talent.In March 2015, Uber gutted Carnegie Mellon University's AI and robotics center. The ride-hailing service <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/uber-poached-a-load-of-staff-from-carnegie-mellon-to-help-it-make-self-driving-cars-2015-5" target="_blank">poached over 50 experts</a>, including Anthony Stentz, who had served as the director for the last four-and-a-half years.A few months later, Uber announced a strategic partnership with the university to create the Uber Advanced Technologies Center for self-driving cars.Andrew Ng, a renowned deep learning expert, left Stanford to become Baidu's chief scientist in 2014. Baidu has a permit to test its self-driving vehicles in California and has tested its cars in China.Universities are struggling to fill the void left by these poachings.Companies have created a bottleneck where they are looking for talent at a rate that's impossible to produce, said Bengio, the University of Montreal professor who is considered a pioneer in deep learning. It takes about five years for the average doctoral candidate to get his or her PhD.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/57c6dd8c09d29324008b5567-2048/carnegie mellon university.jpg" alt="Carnegie Mellon University" data-mce-source="Carnegie Mellon University/Facebook" data-link="https://www.facebook.com/carnegiemellonu/photos/a.82054156387.103037.7133766387/10153058164256388/?type=3&amp;theater"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/carnegiemellonu/photos/a.82054156387.103037.7133766387/10153058164256388/?type=3&amp;theater">Carnegie Mellon University/Facebook</a>Carnegie Mellon University</img></div></div></div>The problem is amplified by the fact that professors are leaving universities to work at tech and auto companies."The demand for people who want to work in this area is growing but the bottleneck is that there are not enough academic labs, not enough professors to supervise all these students who want to get into this field," Bengio said.Gordon said CMU is definitely seeing an increase in the number of people who want to specialize in deep learning. For the upcoming academic year, CMU's machine learning doctorate program received 800 applications. It had received 300 applications just two years prior.Bengio said he gets 600 applications every year for students who want to study machine learning at the University of Montreal. He can only teach around 20 students.That growing interest in machine learning is encouraging, but classroom sizes can only expand so much with a limited pool of professors."There are very few experts in this area until quite recently and many of them are being snapped up by industries because they are in so much of a need for that expertise," Bengio said. "So now you have even less professors than you did just a couple of years ago."<h2>A $1 billion going rate</h2><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/57aa3717db5ce91d008b5ac1-959/cover-photo.jpg" alt="ford driverless car" data-mce-source="Ford">Ford</img></div></div></div>The shortage of AI talent means the going rate for specialists is high, especially for startups, which allow companies to acquire talent in bulk.GM bought San Francisco-based startup Cruise Automation for <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/gm-cruise-automation-price-2016-7" target="_blank">$581 million</a> in March 2016. Uber bought self-driving-truck startup Otto in a <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/otto-self-driving-truck-uber-purchased" target="_blank">deal worth $680 million</a> last August.More recently, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/ford-invests-1-billion-argo-ai-for-self-driving-cars-2017-2" target="_blank">Ford invested $1 billion</a> in Pittsburgh-based startup Argo AI. That investment will be spread out over 5 years.Julie Lodge-Jarrett, Ford's human resources director, said the Argo AI investment is indicative of how Ford has changed its strategy to recruit and retain talent as demand for artificial intelligence experts rises."As we've shifted from being an automotive company to being automotive and mobility we've seen an increase need for tech talent," Lodge-Jarrett told Business Insider. "So in places like machine learning or AI or robotics… we see a greater need for ourselves at Ford and also a more competitive market for that particular talent."Lodge-Jarret said Ford is looking to buy more talent in bulk because it also helps them recruit in the future.Argo AI is co-founded by Bryan Salesky, the former director of hardware for Google's self-driving-car efforts, and Peter Rander, Uber's engineering lead at its autonomous cars center.Those kinds of connections make it easier for Ford to acquire the kind of talent that has traditionally worked for major tech companies.Bengio said the Argo AI investment is indicative of how "the game has been in the last couple of years.""The sad thing is most of these are just for recruiting," he said. "It's kind of a loss for the economy because most often the projects these small companies had don't continue once they've been integrated into the company…. 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