https://www.theringer.com/nba/2023/11/27/23977800/nba-power-rankings-denver-nuggets-boston-celtics
Im sorry but how is it even remotely reasonable to have like the warriors over the magic. This seems like so much cope trying not to seem wrong about your preseason predictions.
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You really think the Magic are going farther in the playoffs than the Warriors? I think you’ll find yourself in the minority there. I’m wondering how you can put the Mavericks in as a contender. Their eval reads identical to the Pacers but they are 9 spots higher.
Lakers at 4? Oh so this is a joke ranking. Got it
I mean you guys were in the conference finals last year, some teams can nit even reach that in a lifetime. And I haven’t even gotten to the bubble which realistically speaking wasn’t really that long ago
what does that have to do with the 2023-2024 NBA season?
Are the Lakers significantly worse this year somehow?
Because that’s exactly what they were last year. And young teams with no playoff experience have a zero percent chance of winning the title
Devin Booker is averaging 29.4 points to go along with 8.9 assists and only 3.1 turnovers, looking the part of one of the five best players in the league.
Suns have 2 top 5 players in the league.
Man if that’s true then they have no excuse to not win it all this year right? Much less get embarassed in the second round by Denver ?
I mean the mavs series was embarrassing the denver series really wasn’t.
The sun’s best 3rd and 4th best players were injured and they took the eventual chamos to 6 in the closest series they had.
Like if your team has ayton, cp3, and booker injures you will lose a playoff series
Naw. When you lose in the playoffs it embarrassing and your team is full of chokers. If your not gonna win the title it’s better to miss the playoffs /s
Booker was completely fine.ayton got benched for jock landale that wasn’t much of a loss. And they won games with Payne starting instead of Paul. The just disappeared completely after game 4. 4/6 games were blowouts. Wasn’t close at all not as bad as a sweep but they didn’t push anything they were literally down 30 at half at home in game 6. Nothing more embarrassing than that.
They disappeared games 5 and 6 after booker got injured midway through the 5th.
You saying booker was completely fine doesn’t make it true
Top heavy teams will always be at risk for injuries derailing their season. Which is a big reason I disliked that Bradley Beal trade. Suns should’ve focused on getting younger complementary players to surround their two stars.
Everyone’s seen these new teams look bright early and then fade out over time(It happened to the Wizards and Kings like…multiple times) so they hedge their bets on all new teams that look good.
That’s my thinking too, it’s a long season and usually the veteran teams know how to pace themselves. Wolves and OKC could be peaking so I can see why many ppl are being cautious.
Not really - almost every ranking is off from their preseason predictions.
Putting the Magic that low is crazy
Tears of joy
How many playoff games do you think the Magic are winning this year?
This is a power rankings though
It’s not. It’s a ranking of who is most likely to win the NBA title this year. Of course, the headline and URL say it’s a power ranking, which is confusing as hell, but the article itself says it’s about title chances.
Very weirdly implemented article. Guess just one of those things where the guy who chooses the headline made a mistake?
They have the magic higher than the futures markets so seems pretty reasonable.
It seems like he’s pretty firm and confident in his pre-season rankings and is trying not to overreact over a 1 month sample size. He definitely moved teams like the Thunder and Timberwolves up in a more dramatic way compared to others, but the majority of his rankings are directly based on where he had them a month ago, and I think that’s fine.
CLIPPERS 12
I’m not even going to complain about us being so low but above the Clippers at least 😭
The clippers at 12 lmao
The problem with this is that some of the rankings appear to be based on what a team has done thus far, and others on future potential. Even the tier names suggest this.
There’s no possible world in which the 10-7 Lakers are the fourth best team of the last month (or the Clippers are 12th) and the 12-5 Magic are in the teens. Now, if you want to say the Clippers and Lakers would beat the Magic in a playoff series: OK, sure. That’s more realistic. But that’s not what KOC says this is.
It is a power ranking. I do believe that its based on expected performances in the playoffs.
Lakers at 4. LOL trash list.
I am shocked that we are number 1, usually after the trades it was always Boston or Milwaukee
Defending champs are usually given the benefit of the doubt even though repeating a championship hasn’t happened in a long time
Well we are the defending champs lol. Before this, the Nuggets didnt have the playoff success that the Celtics and Bucks had, but now they are the defending champs and havent lost a game at home and only lost 1 in total before the Jamal injury
23rd, I’ll take it because this feels like the worst team in the league
Hey. The wizards exist
take a guess who 1 of the wizards wins are against
Typical KOC bullshit article
The Ringer is an entertainment website, not an analysis website. Enjoy what they write but take it with a grain of salt.