The 2025-26 campaign is in the books.
The New York Knicks, for the first time since 1973, are NBA champions. And that means it’s officially time to start looking ahead to the 2026-27 campaign.
We’ll do that today with a way-to-soon version of the power rankings, one that’s subject to dramatic changes over the next several weeks and months.
Trades, free agency and the draft are going to shake up every team in the league, but we can build that into the forecast.
With those considerations and our typical criteria (team and individual numbers, recent performance, championship chances and plenty of good, old-fashioned subjectivity), this is how the entire NBA shakes out right now.