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 | 2 | Cleveland Cavaliers | Loss of Mo Williams for a few weeks mitigated by an upcoming favorable home schedule | |
| 2 | 1 | Los Angeles Lakers | Interesting game in Boston next Sunday (1/31) | |
| 3 | 5 | Dallas Mavericks | One team that refuses to mail in road games | |
| 4 | 4 | Atlanta Hawks | Facing Houston, San Antonio, Boston, Orlando and OKC over 9-day stretch | |
| 5 | 3 | Boston Celtics | Whole season hinges on health of Garnett’s knee | |
| 6 | 6 | Orlando Magic | Howard best rebounder in the league by a wide margin | |
| 7 | 7 | Denver Nuggets | Carmelo Anthony can score on anybody | |
| 8 | 9 | San Antonio Spurs | Lots of road games coming up, and Spurs are below .500 away from San Antonio | |
| 9 | 10 | Portland Trail Blazers | No team has been hit harder by injuries | |
| 10 | 8 | Phoenix Suns | For a guy who relies on quickness, Nash averages less than half a steal a game | |
| 11 | 13 | Oklahoma City Thunder | Few teams are better ATS than Thunder are | |
| 12 | 11 | Utah Jazz | Concerns about Deron Williams’s wrist injury | |
| 13 | 20 | Charlotte Bobcats | Weekend losses to Orlando and Atlanta took the air out of what had been a nice run | |
| 14 | 12 | Houston Rockets | If the Rockets want to dump McGrady, you’d think they would want to showcase him | |
| 15 | 15 | Memphis Grizzlies | Win Monday over Orlando would give the Grizz 24 wins — same total as in all of 2008-09 | |
| 16 | 16 | New Orleans Hornets | How far can a team go when its PG is the leading scorer? | |
| 17 | 14 | Miami Heat | Scoring 65 and giving up 104 in Charlotte defies logic | |
| 18 | 17 | Toronto Raptors | Bosh is gone this summer unless Raptors make a late-season run | |
| 19 | 18 | Chicago Bulls | Road-heavy schedule will probably stop momentum team had built up | |
| 20 | 19 | Y–Los Angeles Clippers | Chris Kaman gives Clips decent defense and 20+ ppg | |
| 21 | 21 | New York Knicks | Frustrated D’Antoni is starting to lash out at veterans | |
| 22 | 22 | Milwaukee Bucks | Passing up college for European pro league apparently paid dividends for Brandon Jennings | |
| 23 | 23 | X–Philadelphia 76ers | Sixers .500 since signing Iverson | |
| 24 | 24 | Indiana Pacers | Bad at home, bad on the road and bad ATS | |
| 25 | 26 | Detroit Pistons | Pistons competitive again, but 13-game losing streak tore the guts out of their season | |
| 26 | 25 | Sacramento Kings | Tyreke Evans (20.7 ppg) looks like a player | |
| 27 | 27 | Washington Wizards | Fans in D.C. deserve better, but salary cap issues make major changes difficult | |
| 28 | 28 | Golden State Warriors | Getting outscored by more than 8 a game — by far worst in the league | |
| 29 | 29 | Minnesota Timberwolves | Talk of trading Jefferson doesn’t make sense | |
| 30 | 30 | New Jersey Nets | Zeroing in on NBA record for fewest victories — 9, by 1972 Sixers | |
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.
One reply on “NBA Power Rankings (Jan. 25th)”
My top three in the East would be Cleveland, Atlanta, and Boston. The Cav’s still reign supreme but the Hawks have looked pretty good lately. Boston misses KG in the worse way.
In the West I would go with Los Angeles(Lakers), Dallas, and Denver. The Lakers are still the best, but the gap between them and the next couple of top teams in conference is not nearly as wide.