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BY DAVID THORPE

Last week we narrowed the NBA’s 30 teams to a shortlist of 10 legitimate contenders, still on the bus to the 2020 championship. Clinging to the bottom of the list: the Philadelphia 76ers. Just last May, the champion Raptors needed a lucky bounce at the Game 7 buzzer to be…