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NBA power rankings for bettors: Where Nets stand
Just a few weeks remain in the NBA regular season, but quite a few teams refuse to start buckling down. The Nets experienced one of the biggest drops this week,...
NBA Power Rankings: LeBron's Lakers start where they finished
Two months later than usual, and after an expedited preseason, the NBA is set to tip off Tuesday night. Here’s how the league's hierarchy looks entering the season opener: A...
NBA power rankings after very unusual free agency
NBA free agency usually brings fireworks just days before July 4. This year — delayed by four-plus months and with a lack of big-name free agents — it didn’t shake...
Warriors' fun-loving spectacle now loathed for juicy NBA year
When trying to assess the 2016-17 NBA landscape, a pointed observation from one of mankind’s late, great philosophers immediately surfaces. “Everybody pulls for David,” Wilt Chamberlain once said. “Nobody roots...
NBA preview rankings: LeBron will complete Cleveland mission
Matt Harvey might pitch in three World Series games. Hope the Mets cleared that with agent Scott Boras. So while Sandy Alderson and assorted team brass secure that approval, we’ll...
The historical highs and lows of this NBA season
The 2014-15 NBA season truly has exemplified the best of times, Golden State’s season, and the worst of times, the Knicks nightmare, throughout the league. Some teams continued their run...
Reasons to believe in an 8-over-1 NBA playoff upset
One NBA executive was looking at the bottom of the Eastern Conference playoff race and proposed an interesting question. Do the Hawks want to avoid the Nets in a 1-8...
LeBron James rising to the top, along with a familiar foe
The All-Star break is always that time on the NBA calendar when the league celebrates itself, puts a corporate logo on everything that isn’t nailed down -- and anything that...
NBA's ridiculously unbalanced conferences a mystery to most
The Nets, fighting for their playoff lives, reside just 1 ½ games out of the eighth spot in the East. They would be 12th out West, awaiting official elimination. Utah,...
NBA power rankings: Which NCAA program rules the league?
So while most of America delays filing income tax returns for something really important – filling out NCAA Tournament brackets – there is a particular fraternity that will be watching...
NBA power rankings: Finding the season's biggest bust
Pick a year. Any year. Always, there is a sure-bet playoff team in October that flops, falls on its face and, assuming it owns its pick, shows up at the...
NBA power rankings: Raptors are now a bad good team
They began the season as one of the hunted teams in the Eastern Conference. And while they still sit comfortably atop the Atlantic Division and trail only the Hawks in...
NBA power rankings: Cavs have Knicks to thank for resurgence
Some of the trades, drafts and signings the Knicks made over the years really are paying off now. Unfortunately for the Knicks, they’re paying off in Cleveland. Three one-time Knicks,...
NBA power rankings: Only one thing left for Knicks, Lakers
Figure the Knicks are not going to be big buyers at Thursday’s trade deadline. Their rebuilding continued in its “raze everything to the ground in total demolition” phase with the...
NBA power rankings: The godfather of our two best teams
Hall of Famer and New York City icon Chris Mullin was talking about the style of the great Knicks teams of the past, the Red Holzman teams. And Mullin admitted,...
NBA power rankings: Which elite teams should be worried?
So you woke up on Monday and thought, “What could be crazier than Seattle’s decision to pass instead of having Marshawn Lynch bulldoze, tank, plow his way to a Super...
NBA power rankings: Cavs season unfolding just as LeBron said
Time was the nastiest four-letter word for the Cavaliers this season. When the Cavs assembled the latest version of an NBA Big Three with prodigal son LeBron James, incumbent star...
NBA power rankings: The brilliance of the No. 1 Hawks, explained
If you need an idea of how impressive the Hawks have been this season, think of the Knicks. In reverse. After Monday’s 93-82 home win over the Pistons, the Hawks have...
NBA power rankings: The wild card in Thunder’s frantic chase
Point of view is so important. Consider: If you’re the Knicks, you're ripping your head off screaming, “Half the season remains.” If you’re the Oklahoma City Thunder, a team virtually...
NBA power rankings: The proof Warriors still getting better
Geographically, a continent separates the NBA’s best, the Golden State Warriors, from the league’s least, the Knicks. In talent, the gap is even wider. So while the Knicks were completing...