2010 NBA Hoops Power Ratings
Each week during the heart of the NBA season, and once or twice during the NBA Preseason, we’ll gather the troops around the roundtable and hash out the NBA Power rankings. We check out the stats, looks at the records, and, most importantly, we take a close, close look at the heart of each team. We encourage you to come back each week and see how the nba Power Rankings have changed.
NBA Power Rankings will be updated by Friday every week. Be sure to visit our home page for more articles and NBA analysis.
Its with this knowledge that we can then deliver to you The NBA WEEKLY Power Rankings!
Power Rankings
| NBA Power Rankings | ||||
| This Week | Last Week | Comment | ||
| 1 | 1 | Cleveland Cavaliers | Looks like no one wants to challenge Cavs in the East | |
| 2 | 2 | Los Angeles Lakers | Fade candidate Monday in Memphis after emotional game in Boston on Sunday | |
| 3 | 3 | Dallas Mavericks | Nowitzki taking fewer 3s, amking a higher percentage | |
| 4 | 7 | Denver Nuggets | After coaching Kenyon Martin and J.R.Smith, George Karl gets to bypass purgatory and go straight to heaven | |
| 5 | 8 | San Antonio Spurs | Upcoming 8-game road trip mitigated by games against several dogs | |
| 6 | 4 | Atlanta Hawks | Best team in the league ATS | |
| 7 | 6 | Orlando Magic | Just average on the road | |
| 8 | 5 | Boston Celtics | Rondo must feel like an attendant in an assisted living community | |
| 9 | 12 | Utah Jazz | Jazz on a nice run but have Dallas, Portland and Denver this week | |
| 10 | 13 | Charlotte Bobcats | Nice run despite the absence of injured center Tyson Chandler | |
| 11 | 11 | Oklahoma City Thunder | Thunder are 15-6 against Eastern Conference opponents | |
| 12 | 9 | Portland Trail Blazers | Banged up beyond repair and in the middle of a 10-game stretch against teams with winning records | |
| 13 | 10 | Phoenix Suns | Stoudemire on the market, but pricetag appears too high | |
| 14 | 18 | Toronto Raptors | Incredibly, Raptors are starting to close on the Celtics | |
| 15 | 14 | Houston Rockets | Still competitive, but Rockets are a bad cover team | |
| 16 | 15 | Memphis Grizzlies | Good team to bet on until oddsmakers and public catch on | |
| 17 | 16 | New Orleans Hornets | Saints’ march to Super Bowl has given breathing room for the win-one, lose-one Hornets | |
| 18 | 17 | y–Miami Heat | Not enough depth to survive loss of Beasley for any length of time | |
| 19 | 22 | Milwaukee Bucks | Covered the spread 7 straight times through last Saturday’s games | |
| 20 | 19 | Chicago Bulls | Somehow, some way the Bulls are winning on the road | |
| 21 | 21 | x–New York Knicks | 5 players score in double figures, to no avail | |
| 22 | 23 | Philadelphia 76ers | Sixers are non-discriminatory — they’ll lose to good and bad teams | |
| 23 | 20 | Los Angeles Clippers | 16-point loss to New Jersey sets them back | |
| 24 | 24 | Indiana Pacers | Losses to Lakers and Cavs showed just how far this team has to go | |
| 25 | 25 | Detroit Pistons | There’s some talk about the Pistons moving to Pittsburgh | |
| 26 | 26 | Sacramento Kings | Above .500 at home but just 3-20 on the road | |
| 27 | 27 | Washington Wizards | Antawn Jamison to Cleveland? | |
| 28 | 28 | Golden State Warriors | Word is Don Nelson hanging on until he break record for most coaching wins | |
| 29 | 29 | Minnesota Timberwolves | Jonny Flynn looks like a keeper | |
| 30 | 30 | New Jersey Nets | Yi Jianlian asking out but no one can understand Chinese | |
X–Team with the best chance of cracking Top 20
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Y–Team with the best chance of falling out of the Top 20
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Lawrence Paul is a regular contributor to the Cappers Picks Blog, and is a free-lance gambling and travel expert from Massachusetts.
