The latest NBA power rankings: the top three East occupy two spots, the Suns are underestimated, and the Wizards are at the bottom
The NBA regular season has been going on for many days, and teams have played more or less multiple games, and during this time, there has been a trade that will affect the new season pattern of the NBA's East and West, and that is Harden leaving the East to join the Clippers. The American media once again ranked the strength of each team in the new season based on the results of the new season and the lineup of the team. The latest NBA power rankings: the top three East occupy two spots, the Suns are underestimated, and the dark horse team is at the bottom.
Nos. 21-30: Pacers, Raptors, Jazz, Bulls, Pistons; Grizzlies, Trail Blazers, Rockets, Hornets, Wizards. The ranking of this echelon is not much different from the previous power list given by the US media. The Grizzlies have suffered a six-game losing streak (the team's star is absent and the interior core season is reimbursed) and are currently at the bottom of the league, and they are the only team that has not won a game since the start of the season, but the Wizards are at the bottom of the league in this list.
The Wizards once became the dark horse team last season, and they also played well and occupied the top positions on the list, but the team made lineup adjustments in the offseason, Kuzma stayed with Poole, and the outside world also agreed that Poole could help the team with a good performance in the Wizards, but their performance in the first place this season was not ideal. I don't know if the two teams will be able to break the doubts of the outside world and lead the team to achieve better results in the next regular season.
Nos. 11-20: Pelicans, Timberwolves, Thunder, Hawks, Nets; Knicks, Magic, Cavaliers, Spurs, Heat. The Pelicans, Thunder and Spurs are the teams to focus on. They all have a lot of talented young players, especially the Spurs, Wembanyama and the squad that the team has built over the past few seasons, and they can be said to have completed the rebuild, just waiting for the players in the squad to grow. Wembanyama has shown his talent and quality to the outside world after only five games, so his current performance looks at the one or two dozen games he has experienced in the regular season, and they are likely to be the spoilers in the Western Conference standings.
Nos. 6-10: Bucks, Clippers, Lakers, Kings, Suns. In the war of these teams, except for the Kings who made little changes to the lineup in the offseason, the others have made major changes to the lineup, but the Bucks and Suns have not performed well since the start of the season, and the Suns are also underestimated in the latest power rankings, ranking only 10th.
In the offseason, the team recruited Beal to form a Big Three combination of Booker + Durant + Beal, but the team had various problems just after the start of the regular season, first of all, injuries made their Big Three lineup so far still not able to complete the combined debut, the team's defensive performance is not good, and the record is not ideal, and the season has only achieved a 2-3 record, and it has suffered a double kill from the Spurs. I don't know if the Suns will be able to play as they expected before the regular season began.
Nos. 1-5: Celtics, Nuggets, 76ers, Warriors, Mavericks. The rankings of these teams are still quite controversial, especially since the Nuggets are only second as the defending champions last season, but the 76ers have risen to third place. These two teams from the East occupy two spots in the top three of the standings.
The 76ers had previously traded away Harden, and in this case, Maxey, Oubre and Harris stepped up to share the pressure on Embiid, and they have played well since the start of the regular season.
There are still a lot of changes in this list compared to the previous ones, which team do you think is more controversial in the rankings?