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Assuming everyone is healthy and that injured players come back healthy on their reasonable timelines.

Top half:

Thunder
Nuggets
Cavs
Rockets
Knicks
Wolves
Bucks
Lakers
Mavericks
Spurs
Clippers
Warriors
Magic
Pistons
Celtics
Sixers

How you rank the current power rankings in the NBA?

Worst power rankings ever.

RoyceDa59 wrote:Assuming everyone is healthy and that injured players come back healthy on their reasonable timelines.

Top half:

Thunder
Nuggets
Cavs
Rockets
Knicks
Wolves
Bucks
Lakers
Mavericks
Spurs
Clippers
Warriors
Magic
Pistons
Celtics
Sixers

How you rank the current power rankings in the NBA?

Honestly, this seems to be a reasonable and a good list to start the season. start to the season.

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Rankings:

1. OKC
2. Houston
3. Cleveland
4. Knicks
5. Wolves
6. Warriors
7. Nuggets
8. Lakers
9. Spurs
10. Celtics
11. Bucks
12. Magic
13. Pistons
14. Clippers
15. Philly

I am being conservative with San Antonio but I could see them being a top 5 team as soon as next year. Similar to where the Rockets were this year but with Wemby instead of Jalen Green. Putting them in 9th for now.

1. Houston
2. Minnesota, Dallas, Denver, OKC

Optms wrote:Rankings:

1. OKC
2. Houston
3. Cleveland
4. Knicks
5. Wolves
6. Warriors
7. Nuggets
8. Lakers
9. Spurs
10. Celtics
11. Bucks
12. Magic
13. Pistons
14. Clippers
15. Philly

I am being conservative with San Antonio but I could see them being a top 5 team as soon as next year. Similar to where the Rockets were this year but with Wemby instead of Jalen Green. Putting them in 9th for now.

You still have Boston as a top 3 seed?

They lost 4 of their top 6 guys. With a 5th coming off surgery.

I'd be genuinely shocked if Boston finishes top 3 in the East, in 2026.

JujitsuFlip wrote:

Optms wrote:Rankings:

1. OKC
2. Houston
3. Cleveland
4. Knicks
5. Wolves
6. Warriors
7. Nuggets
8. Lakers
9. Spurs
10. Celtics
11. Bucks
12. Magic
13. Pistons
14. Clippers
15. Philly

I am being conservative with San Antonio but I could see them being a top 5 team as soon as next year. Similar to where the Rockets were this year but with Wemby instead of Jalen Green. Putting them in 9th for now.

You still have Boston as a top 3 seed?

They lost 4 of their top 6 guys. With a 5th coming off surgery.

I'd be genuinely shocked if Boston finishes top 3 in the East, in 2026.

I have Cleveland 3. Boston 10. And I'm being nice, they are cooked.

RoyceDa59 wrote:Assuming everyone is healthy and that injured players come back healthy on their reasonable timelines.

Top half:

Thunder
Nuggets
Cavs
Rockets
Knicks
Wolves
Bucks
Lakers
Mavericks
Spurs
Clippers
Warriors
Magic
Pistons
Celtics
Sixers

How you rank the current power rankings in the NBA?

I would put healthy Clippers behind Wolves, and Magic right behind them

Optms wrote:

JujitsuFlip wrote:

Optms wrote:Rankings:

1. OKC
2. Houston
3. Cleveland
4. Knicks
5. Wolves
6. Warriors
7. Nuggets
8. Lakers
9. Spurs
10. Celtics
11. Bucks
12. Magic
13. Pistons
14. Clippers
15. Philly

I am being conservative with San Antonio but I could see them being a top 5 team as soon as next year. Similar to where the Rockets were this year but with Wemby instead of Jalen Green. Putting them in 9th for now.

You still have Boston as a top 3 seed?

They lost 4 of their top 6 guys. With a 5th coming off surgery.

I'd be genuinely shocked if Boston finishes top 3 in the East, in 2026.

I have Cleveland 3. Boston 10. And I'm being nice, they are cooked.

According to your list, Boston is a top 3 team in the East? That's impossible .

Optms wrote:

JujitsuFlip wrote:

Optms wrote:Rankings:

1. OKC
2. Houston
3. Cleveland
4. Knicks
5. Wolves
6. Warriors
7. Nuggets
8. Lakers
9. Spurs
10. Celtics
11. Bucks
12. Magic
13. Pistons
14. Clippers
15. Philly

I am being conservative with San Antonio but I could see them being a top 5 team as soon as next year. Similar to where the Rockets were this year but with Wemby instead of Jalen Green. Putting them in 9th for now.

You still have Boston as a top 3 seed?

They lost 4 of their top 6 guys. With a 5th coming off surgery.

I'd be genuinely shocked if Boston finishes top 3 in the East, in 2026.

I have Cleveland 3. Boston 10. And I'm being nice, they are cooked.

You have Cleveland 1 and the Celtics 3rd seed.

Thunder - Champions
Cavs - Best regular season
Rockets - most improves roster
Nuggets - Best player
Wolves - Best young player
Knicks - Pretender in a weak conference
Mavericks - Lucky af
Spurs - Wemby and great front office
Magic - Bane lifts their offense
Warriors - Curry, Butler and continuity
Clippers - Health dependent but Kawhi is still great
Toronto - A lot of "mid" players who can make a jump
Pistons - Linear improvement from last season
Boston - Still talented
Philly - Talented but serious injury issues

Just my preliminary thoughts so far. Obviously, more stuff is going to happen. With regards to the WC, I am a bit unsure because these records will pretty much depend on who dominates the bottom third of the league. That's why I expect Houston to have a great record.

Eastern Conference
1. Cleveland
2. New York
3. Orlando
4. Detroit
5. Atlanta
6. Indiana

Western Conference
1. Oklahoma City
2. Houston
3. Denver
4. Minnesota
5. LA Clippers
6. Dallas

Eastern Conference
1. Cleveland
2. Orlando
3. New York
4. Detroit
5. Atlanta
6. Miami (I think they'll get Beal, and he'll give them the scorer they lack, and they have lots of contracts to trade)

Western Conference
1. Oklahoma City
2. Denver (I think they'll get Vuc after a buyout)
3. Houston
4. Dallas
5. LA Clippers
6. Warriors (they'll fill their roster eventually, but their big 3 is too good for lottery)

EC:

Cleveland
NYK
Orlando
Detroit
Atlanta
Toronto
Miami
Chicago
Indy
Mil
Boston
Philly
Charlotte
Wash
BK

WC:

OKC
Denver
Houston
Minny
LAC
GSW
LAL
Dallas
SAS
Memphis
Portland
Phoenix
Sac
NO
Utah

baldur wrote:

Optms wrote:

JujitsuFlip wrote:You still have Boston as a top 3 seed?

They lost 4 of their top 6 guys. With a 5th coming off surgery.

I'd be genuinely shocked if Boston finishes top 3 in the East, in 2026.

I have Cleveland 3. Boston 10. And I'm being nice, they are cooked.

According to your list, Boston is a top 3 team in the East? That's impossible .

I have them as 6th or 7th in the East. I wouldn’t say it’s impossible they could finish top 3 just because of how bad the East really is. Jaylen Brown and Derrick White are pretty underrated on here. Granted it’s extremely unlikely but people are acting like this team will finish worse than the Nets or Wizards. That’s not happening.

Chuck Everett wrote:Just my preliminary thoughts so far. Obviously, more stuff is going to happen. With regards to the WC, I am a bit unsure because these records will pretty much depend on who dominates the bottom third of the league. That's why I expect Houston to have a great record.

Eastern Conference
1. Cleveland
2. New York
3. Orlando
4. Detroit
5. Atlanta
6. Indiana

Western Conference
1. Oklahoma City
2. Houston
3. Denver
4. Minnesota
5. LA Clippers
6. Dallas

This is pretty much how I see it -- although I'd swap Indiana and Detroit, and as usual there's at least a half-dozen teams just below who might replace any of these 12 if/when there are significant injuries

Chuck Everett wrote:Just my preliminary thoughts so far. Obviously, more stuff is going to happen. With regards to the WC, I am a bit unsure because these records will pretty much depend on who dominates the bottom third of the league. That's why I expect Houston to have a great record.

Eastern Conference
1. Cleveland
2. New York
3. Orlando
4. Detroit
5. Atlanta
6. Indiana

Western Conference
1. Oklahoma City
2. Houston
3. Denver
4. Minnesota
5. LA Clippers
6. Dallas

Swap Orlando with Cleveland and I agree.

I argued before the draft OKC should go for PJ Washington, and go for 75 wins. Why not be an epic/rememberable team. With that depth (PJ would complete them) they'd be all set, 2 deep at every spot with quality

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ATG Teams, clear-cut title contenders
1. Oklahoma City
2. Cleveland
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title Contenders
3. Minnesota
4. Denver
5. Houston
6. New York
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hard-outs in the post-season
7. Dallas
8. Atlanta
9. Orlando
10. Golden State
11. Milwaukee
12. Los Angeles (Clippers)
13. San Antonio
14. Los Angeles (Lakers)
15. Boston
16. Detroit
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Competitive Regular Season and Play-In Level
17. Portland
18. Indiana
19. Memphis
20. Miami
21. Toronto
22. Sacramento
23. Philadelphia
24. New Orleans
25. Phoenix
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Overall Lack of talent to be taken seriously
26. Charlotte
27. Chicago
28. Washington
29. Utah
30. Brooklyn

I am quite fluid within tiers. Teams like Philadelphia are hard to peg, but I assume Embiid isn't healthy. I factor realistic health into the equation with Golden State, if Butler/Curry each play 70 games, they are probably in the next tier up as Contenders. A Healthy Wemby could be a Top 5 player in the NBA, an MVP candidate, and the Spurs could be a contender.

Like last year, I have no reason to think Cleveland/Oklahoma City aren't ahead of everyone in the regular season.

azcatz11 wrote:

Chuck Everett wrote:Just my preliminary thoughts so far. Obviously, more stuff is going to happen. With regards to the WC, I am a bit unsure because these records will pretty much depend on who dominates the bottom third of the league. That's why I expect Houston to have a great record.

Eastern Conference
1. Cleveland
2. New York
3. Orlando
4. Detroit
5. Atlanta
6. Indiana

Western Conference
1. Oklahoma City
2. Houston
3. Denver
4. Minnesota
5. LA Clippers
6. Dallas

Swap Orlando with Cleveland and I agree.

There ain't no way ORL is going to be the #1 seed in the East lol

Mosley is completely clueless on how to run a NBA offense.