The NBA is weird enough without Carmelo Anthony.<\/p>\n
With him it\u2019s over the top times 8.<\/p>\n
Anthony revealed Sunday night that one possible reason that he has been shooting so poorly of late is that over the past three weeks he had been fasting. Kind of. Just different food.
\nAnthony said that the fast \u2013 and annual exercise — was to help get toxins out of his body. <\/p>\n
\u201cI haven\u2019t been eating, but I\u2019m done with it,\u201d said Anthony after the Knicks beat the Hornets. \u201cI\u2019m back eating. I usually do it to get clarity in my life. I\u2019m done now. I can\u2019t do it no more.\u2019\u2019
\nPerhaps his 6-for-26 shooting night in a loss to the Celtics convinced him. <\/p>\n
Or maybe it was the 9-for-25 effort against the Hornets. Whatever. From now on it\u2019s top-of-the-menu steak for Melo Drama.<\/p>\n
To the rankings:<\/p>\n
1.\tTHUNDER (29-8) \u2013<\/strong> Kevin Durant and the boys are a nice time-filler for the locals until the Sooners and Cowboys start spring football practice in a few months. 11.\tHAWKS (21-15) \u2013<\/strong> Hawks are back to their old tricks of late, losing to bad teams on the road. Josh Smith remains a puzzle, shooting 4 of 18 from the floor against Boston and 4 of 13 in a gruesome defeat at Washington. 16.\tBUCKS (19-17) Larry’s NBA Power Ratings The NBA is weird enough without Carmelo Anthony. With him it\u2019s over the top times 8. Anthony revealed Sunday night that one possible reason that he has been shooting so poorly of late is that over the past three weeks he had been fasting. Kind of. Just different food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":24926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[260,4977,22803,11586,22804,22805,57179,3126],"class_list":["post-59266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-cappers-picks","tag-nba-power-ratings","tag-nba-power-ratings-online","tag-nba-rankings","tag-nba-ratings","tag-nba-team-power-rankings","tag-nba-weekly-power-rankings","tag-team-rankings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59278,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59266\/revisions\/59278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2.\tSPURS (29-11) \u2013<\/strong> How about some love for Tony Parker, whose numbers are up across the board during this, his 10th season in the league?
\n3.\t CLIPPERS (28-9) \u2013<\/strong> Clips are still trying to figure out how they managed to lose at home to a Magic team that entered the game with a 10-game losing streak.
\n4.\tHeat (24-11) \u2013<\/strong> Ray Allen left the Celtics because he wasn\u2019t starting. He\u2019s not starting now in Miami. Just saying.
\n5.\tGRIZZLIES (24-11) \u2013 <\/strong> Would dealing Rudy Gay destroy the core of a team that is moving steadily toward elite status in the league, or would it give management financial flexibility to keep the rest of the core together?
\n6.\tKNICKS (24-13) \u2013<\/strong> If Anthony had stayed in Denver, would Garnett have told Melo that Anthony\u2019s wife tasted like a granola bar?
\n7.\tGOLDEN STATE (23-13) \u2013<\/strong> Sad end for Richard Jefferson, whose career is coming to a close as a little-used sub on the end of the Warriors bench. And he\u2019s only 32.
\n8.\tNUGGETS (23-16) \u2013<\/strong> Don\u2019t sleep on these guys. Five in a row. Two games against the Thunder in five days might cool them a bit, but schedule is very favorable over next three weeks.
\n9.\tNETS (22-15) \u2013<\/strong> Brook Lopez\u2019s play will never catch the attention of ESPN producers putting together Top 10 lists, but he\u2019s been the main reason Brooklyn has righted the ship and will take a 6-game winning streak into Tuesday night\u2019s game at home against the Raptors.
\n10.\tPACERS (23-15) \u2013<\/strong> NY\u2019s Anthony was out, but still . . . holding the Knicks to a season low in points (76) showed that the Pacers can go into lockdown mode when they put their minds to it.<\/p>\n
\n12.\tCELTICS (19-17) \u2013<\/strong> Totals of Celtic games should start to shrink now that Boston is ratcheting things up on defense with the return of starting SG Avery Bradley. [ad-6571516]
\n13.\tBULLS (20-15) \u2013<\/strong>Chicago Trib points out that the Bulls have been unable to take full advantage of a home-friendly schedule in first half of the season \u2013 just 10-10 this year after going a combined (league-best) 62-12 in home games over the previous two season. Think Rose factors in to that?
\n14.\tROCKETS (21-17) \u2013<\/strong> Tough game at home against the Clippers Tuesday night before spending most of the rest of January in 5-star hotels.
\n15.\tTRAIL BLAZERS (21-17) \u2013<\/strong> Two nights after Damian Lillard went off for 37 against the Warriors, the Clippers the Chris Paul brought the kid back to earth by holding him in single digits.<\/p>\n
\n17.\tJAZZ (20-19)
\n18.\tLAKERS (16-21)
\n19.\tTIMBERWOLVES (16-18)
\n20.\t76ERS (16-22)
\n21.\tMAVERICKS (15-23)
\n22.\tMAGIC (13-23)
\n23.\tRAPTORS (14-23)
\n24.\tPISTONS (14-24)
\n25.\tKINGS (13-24)
\n26.\tSUNS (13-26)
\n27.\tHONETS (11-26)
\n28.\tBOBCATS (9-27)
\n29.\tCAVALIERS (9-30)
\n30.\tWIZARDS (6-28) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"