Too early to talk who will be the champion next season. Players are still weighing where or which team they will go. Still the Golden State Warriors will be the barometer of all the teams in the NBA. Lebron James will be recruiting an army of star players so he could dethrone the Warriors this year.
Lebron dont have a plan to defeat the GSW this year, as you can see, they're signing vet players for a 1 year contract. Next year there would be another set of superstars who will be on the free agency including Leonard. In 2019 the Lakers will have enough cap space to sign superstars. Just like Magic planned every step he can to bring back the Lake show on stage.
Even Lebron James have plan GSW is so hard to defeat because there's a lot of star player there and most of play there can match to Lebron like D.Green,Durant and more i think he need good center and good power forward that can match to the line-up of GSW then don't forget Curry that can shoot in all spot of the court and three pointer of Thompson with quick release so they are really solid