At this point, the seventh-place team in the West (Phoenix) would still be in sixth place in the East. But things are now a lot more even than they were a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n
There are six East-West games to be played in the four remaining days before the All-Star break, and the West will have home-court advantage in five of the six. So maybe the East\u2019s run of success stops here. Maybe not.<\/p>\n
Plus-Minus Players of the Week<\/p>\n
Teams of the Week<\/p>\n
Make It Last Forever: L.A. Lakers (3-0) \u2014 Have the Lakers rediscovered their mojo? A back-to-back against the Thunder and Spurs on Monday and Tuesday could tell us a lot.
\nSomething Just Ain\u2019t Right: Chicago (0-3) \u2014 The Bulls have lost seven of their last eight games and now have a roster that makes very little sense.<\/p>\n
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East vs. West<\/p>\n
The West is 142-139<\/a> (.505) against the East in interconference games, though the East was 14-7<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n Schedule strength through Week 16<\/p>\n Toughest: 1. Sacramento, 2. New Orleans, 3. Indiana * * *<\/p>\n Movement in the Rankings<\/p>\n High jump of the week: New York (+4) * * *<\/p>\n Week 17 Team to Watch<\/p>\n Charlotte<\/a> \u2014 The Hornets will put their nine-game winning streak against the best team in the Eastern Conference when they host the Pistons on Monday. Then they\u2019ll face the Hawks on Wednesday, a huge game in regard to Play-In positioning.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Previously\u2026<\/p>\n OffRtg<\/a>: Points scored per 100 possessions (League Rank) The league has averaged 114.6 points scored per 100 possessions and 100.3 possessions (per team) per 48 minutes this season.<\/p>\n NBA.com\u2019s Power Rankings, released every Monday during the season, are just one man\u2019s opinion. If you have an issue with the rankings, or have a question or comment for John Schuhmann, contact him via Bluesky<\/a>.<\/p>\n #1<\/p>\n Record: 38-13<\/p>\n OffRtg: 116.4 (11) DefRtg: 108.4 (2) NetRtg: +8.1 (2) Pace: 100.6 (17)<\/p>\n The Pistons suffered their worst loss of the season on Thursday, never holding a lead and getting outscored by 27 points (54-27) from 3-point range by the Wizards. But they blew out the Knicks for the second time just 24 hours later and remain the contender that\u2019s playing the best as we head toward the All-Star break.<\/p>\n Three takeaways<\/p>\n The Pistons have yet to play the Thunder or the Spurs, but with their wins over Denver and New York last week, they\u2019re 7-1 in games played between the top six teams<\/a> in the league, with the only loss having come in Boston by three points. They were at a rest disadvantage for both of their wins over the Knicks, and they won them both by more than 30 points, holding the league\u2019s third-ranked offense to just 89.9 points per 100 possessions<\/a>. They\u2019re now 7-0 in rest-disadvantage games<\/p>\n Kevin Huerter played just 14 total minutes (only four<\/a> alongside Cade Cunningham) over his first two games<\/a> with the Pistons, playing behind Ron Holland, Caris LeVert and Daniss Jenkins. Huerter is having, by a healthy margin, the worst 3-point shooting season (30.8%<\/a>) of his career, but he does give the Pistons more size on the wing. It will be interesting to see if he gets a real opportunity to rediscover his shot over the final two months of the season.<\/p>\n The Pistons are now tied in the loss column with the Thunder, who are currently without two of their three best players. So finishing with the best record in the league (for the first time in 20 years) is certainly a possibility, and they have an easier remaining schedule than Oklahoma City, though two head-to-head matchups (Feb. 25 and Mar. 30) could ultimately determine the overall No. 1 seed.<\/p>\n Coming up: The way things are going, the Hornets are looking like a potential first-round opponent for the Pistons, who held Charlotte to its worst offensive game<\/a> of the season (86 points on 107 possessions) in the first meeting back in December. The second meeting (of three) is on Monday in Charlotte.<\/p>\n Week 17<\/a>: @ CHA, @ TOR<\/p>\n #2<\/p>\n Record: 36-16<\/p>\n OffRtg: 116.5 (10) DefRtg: 111.1 (3) NetRtg: +5.4 (5) Pace: 100.8 (14)<\/p>\n The Spurs matched their win total from last season with a wire-to-wire victory over the shorthanded Thunder on Wednesday, finishing 4-1<\/a> against the champs. Then they swept a home-and-home set with the Mavs to climb within three games in the loss column of Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n Three takeaways<\/p>\n The Spurs have outscored their opponents by 16.8 points per 100 possessions with Champagnie and Victor Wembanyama on the floor together, the third-best non-Thunder two-man mark<\/a> among combinations that have played at least 500 total minutes. So, even with Devin Vassell back in the starting lineup for the last five games, Champagnie has remained there. Harrison Barnes has come off the bench in three of the last five, and Stephon Castle was a reserve for the first time this season in Dallas on Thursday.<\/p>\n Castle was back in the starting lineup and had the best game of his career two nights later, recording a 40-point triple-double as the Spurs blew out the Mavs. Castle is still shooting 28.9% from 3-point range, but he\u2019s seen jumps from his rookie season in field goal percentage in the paint, the percentage of his shots that have come in the paint and free throw rate. He\u2019s also seen the fifth biggest jump in assists per 36 minutes (from 5.5 to 8.2<\/a>) among 310 players who\u2019ve played at least 300 minutes in each of the last two seasons.<\/p>\n The Spurs have outscored their opponents by 76 points in the restricted area over their four-game winning streak, and now rank fourth in restricted-area differential (plus-6.0 per game) for the season.<\/p>\n Coming up: The Spurs are 0-2 against the Warriors, having lost the two games<\/a> (both at home) by a total of six points. They\u2019ll be at a rest disadvantage when they close out their pre-break schedule at Golden State on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Week 17<\/a>: @ LAL, @ GSW<\/p>\n #3<\/p>\n Record: 40-13<\/p>\n OffRtg: 117.7 (4) DefRtg: 105.9 (1) NetRtg: +11.8 (1) Pace: 100.9 (13)<\/p>\n The Thunder are now playing without both Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (abdominal strain suffered on Tuesday) and Jalen Williams. They\u2019ve lost five of their last eight games and are now tied with the Pistons in the loss column.<\/p>\n Three takeaways<\/p>\n The Thunder had won their first two games without Gilgeous-Alexander, but those were against the Jazz and Grizzlies. They didn\u2019t have enough without him against the Spurs and Rockets last week, the 11th and 12th times<\/a> they\u2019ve scored fewer than 110 points per 100 possessions. Overall, they\u2019ve scored just 108.3 per 100<\/a> in 937 minutes with the MVP off the floor.<\/p>\n The Thunder are 16-12 since that 24-1 start, though they still have a strong point differential (plus-6.9 per 100 possessions<\/a>) over the latter stretch. They\u2019re just 4-8 in games that were within five points in the last five minutes since mid-December and have scored just 27 points on 33 clutch possessions (0.82 per<\/a>) as they\u2019ve gone 1-5 in clutch games over the last four weeks.<\/p>\n The Thunder\u2019s first three games of February were wire-to-wire games, where the first team that scored (the Thunder twice, the Spurs on Wednesday) never trailed. But they blew a 15-point lead as they fell to the Rockets on Saturday and have now had double-digit leads in six of their 13 losses. They were 66-5 when leading by double-digits last season.<\/p>\n Coming up: The Thunder have two more games within the top seven in the West before the All-Star break. One of those six losses where they led by double-digits<\/a> came in Phoenix last month, and they\u2019ll be back at the Mortgage Matchup Center on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Week 17<\/a>: @ LAL, @ PHX, vs, MIL<\/p>\n #4<\/p>\n Record: 34-19<\/p>\n OffRtg: 118.6 (3) DefRtg: 113.1 (11) NetRtg: +5.5 (4) Pace: 98.5 (25)<\/p>\n The Knicks saw their eight-game winning streak come to an end on Friday, when they got clobbered in Detroit for the second time. But they did the clobbering two days later, beating the Celtics to take back second place in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n Three takeaways<\/p>\n The two losses in Detroit were rest-advantage games, but they were two of the four times the Knicks have scored less than a point per possession. Their 38-point loss on Friday was their worst offensive game<\/a> of the season (80 points on 95 possessions) by a wide margin. They were without both OG Anunoby and Karl-Anthony Towns, but Detroit was without Jalen Duren and (as noted) playing the second game of a back-to-back. The third (and final) meeting will be in New York in both teams\u2019 first game after the All-Star break.<\/p>\n More important than one ugly offensive performance may be that the Knicks have had the league\u2019s top-ranked defense<\/a> by a wide margin (100.8 points allowed per 100 possessions) over their last 10 games. Their win on Sunday was the Celtics\u2018 worst offensive game<\/a> of the season (89 points on 94 possessions), though that was mostly about Boston shooting 7-for-41 (17%) from 3-point range. With most of the improvement over these 10 games being about how poorly (28.2%<\/a>) the opponents have shot from beyond the arc, it may not be sustainable.<\/p>\n Jose Alvarado made his Knicks debut on Sunday, registering 12 points, two assists, two steals and a block in 25 minutes in the win in Boston. More than half of those minutes came alongside Jalen Brunson, who was the beneficiary of both of Alvarado\u2019s assists.<\/p>\n Coming up: The Nuyoricans at Madison Square Garden will get to welcome Alvarado home on Tuesday. The Knicks will then be at a rest disadvantage when they visit the sixth-place Sixers (who are only three games behind them in the loss column) the following night.<\/p>\n Week 17<\/a>: vs. IND, @ PHI<\/p>\n #5<\/p>\n Record: 34-19<\/p>\n OffRtg: 121.0 (1) DefRtg: 116.8 (24) NetRtg: +4.2 (7) Pace: 98.4 (26)<\/p>\n The Nuggets got Cam Johnson back from a 22-game absence over the weekend, but not before they lost Peyton Watson (hamstring strain) for at least four weeks. Jamal Murray also left their win in Chicago on Saturday after suffering a hip injury in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n Three takeaways<\/p>\n Before the last three weeks, the Nuggets were 13-6 (second best) in games played between the 16 teams currently over .500. But they\u2019ve now lost their last five games within that group, having allowed more than 121 points per 100 possessions over those five games.<\/p>\n Nikola Joki\u0107 was 0-for-7 on clutch 3s at Madison Square Garden, playing the entirety of the two overtimes and blowing past his minutes restriction. He logged 77 1\/2 minutes over the back-to-back and, over their five games since his return, the Nuggets have been 24.9 points per 100 possessions<\/a> better with him on the floor (plus-10.4) than they\u2019ve been with him off the floor (minus-14.5).<\/p>\n Coming up: The Nuggets will have one more game against a winning team before the break, hosting the Cavs on Monday, with Murray listed as questionable in the morning. They lost the first meeting<\/a> (in Cleveland and without Joki\u0107) in early January after blowing an 11-point, second-half lead.<\/p>\n Week 17<\/a>: vs. CLE, vs. MEM<\/p>\n #6<\/p>\n Record: 34-19<\/p>\n OffRtg: 120.0 (2) DefRtg: 112.7 (9) NetRtg: +7.3 (3) Pace: 95.7 (30)<\/p>\n The Celtics had a five-game winning streak that included a rest-disadvantage victory without Jaylen Brown in Houston on Wednesday. But the streak ended on Sunday afternoon, when they got blown out by the Knicks over the final 18 minutes. That has them back in third place in the East, because New York holds the head-to-head tiebreaker<\/a> for now.<\/p>\n Three takeaways<\/p>\n Like the Knicks\u2019 longer streak, the Celtics\u2019 winning streak was about defensive improvement (100.9 points allowed per 100 possessions<\/a>), and they\u2019re now the only Eastern Conference team<\/a> that ranks in the top 10 on both ends of the floor. Like New York, the Celtics benefitted from poor opponent 3-point shooting (31.7%<\/a>) over their winning streak. But the opponents also shot just 47.6% in the paint over the five games.<\/p>\n The Celtics saved a ton of money and seemingly addressed a need by swapping Anfernee Simons for Nikola Vu\u010devi\u0107 at the deadline. Vu\u010devi\u0107 doesn\u2019t provide much rim protection, but he\u2019s now the best defensive rebounder on the roster and should fit in offensively with the team that leads the league in the percentage of their shots (60%) that have come from outside the paint.<\/p>\n Payton Pritchard moved to the bench with Simons\u2019 departure, and he averaged 25.7 in his first three games (back) as a reserve before struggling (2-for-9) in the loss to the Knicks on Sunday. Pritchard hasn\u2019t been replaced in the starting lineup with either Vu\u010devi\u0107 or another guard\/wing. Instead, Luka Garza has started the last three games alongside Neemias Queta. The two bigs have still played just 49 total minutes together, with the Celtics outscoring their opponents by a point (7.9 per 100 possessions<\/a>) in those minutes.<\/p>\n Coming up: The Celtics have two days off before completing their pre-break schedule with a visit from Simons and the Bulls on Wednesday. The home team has won the first two meetings<\/a>, with the Bulls winning the most recent one with a Kevin Huerter 3-pointer<\/a> with less than a second to go.<\/p>\n Week 17<\/a>: vs. CHI<\/p>\n #7<\/p>\n Record: 32-19<\/p>\n OffRtg: 117.3 (5) DefRtg: 112.2 (6) NetRtg: +5.1 (6) Pace: 96.7 (27)<\/p>\n The Rockets were one of only three teams that didn\u2019t make a trade<\/a> in the week before the deadline, even though their offense has been struggling for a month.<\/p>\n Three takeaways<\/p>\n The Rockets rank 27th<\/a> offensively (110.2 points scored per 100 possessions) over their last 20 games, and they scored just 102.1 per 100 in their Wednesday-Thursday back-to-back, losing (at home) to the Celtics (without Jaylen Brown) and Hornets. The back-to-back was the end of a seven-game stretch in which Reed Sheppard shot 29%, including 9-for-43 (21%) from 3-point range.<\/p>\n Sheppard shot better (7-for-12) as the Rockets beat the shorthanded Thunder in Oklahoma City on Saturday, improving to 3-6 against the three Western Conference teams ahead of them in the standings. JD Davison has been getting some rotation burn over the last three games and the Rockets have scored 121.5 points per 100 possessions<\/a> in his 33 minutes on the floor over that stretch. It seems logical that the Rockets would look for a point guard on the buyout market.<\/p>\n The Rockets remain a terrific offensive rebounding team, but rank 24th<\/a> in defensive rebounding percentage since Steven Adams was lost for the season. They have also been outscored on second chances in six of their last seven games<\/a>.<\/p>\n Coming up: The Rockets and Clippers have split their first two meetings<\/a>, with the home team winning both. It\u2019s one of those weird, four-game series where they got an extra game to fill in during NBA Cup week, and one of the two teams gets three of the four games at home. That team is the Rockets, and the final two meetings are Tuesday and Wednesday in Houston.<\/p>\n Week 17<\/a>: vs. LAC, vs. LAC<\/p>\n #8<\/p>\n Record: 31-22<\/p>\n OffRtg: 114.5 (14) DefRtg: 112.3 (8) NetRtg: +2.2 (11) Pace: 99.0 (22)<\/p>\n The Suns got Devin Booker back from a seven-game absence on Saturday, when Jalen Green also returned and played his sixth game of the season. But they fell to the Sixers, have lost three of their last four games and remain outside the top six in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n Three takeaways<\/p>\n Though Booker continues to have the worst 3-point shooting season of his career (he was 1-for-7 from beyond the arc in his return on Saturday), he was 10-for-11 from the line against the Sixers and the Suns scored efficiently in his 32 minutes. The problem was that they didn\u2019t stagger his minutes with those of Dillon Brooks and (with Grayson Allen not available) they scored a brutal nine points on 21 offensive possessions with their two leading scorers both on the bench.<\/p>\n The Suns continue to rank second in 3-point differential (plus-6.7 points per game), and they\u2019ve been outscored from beyond the arc in only 13 of their 43 games. Four of those 13 have come against the Warriors, who beat Phoenix by four points on Thursday, when they set the record for single-game 3-point rate (55 of their 76 shots). The Suns are 4-9 in those 13 games when they\u2019ve been outscored from deep.<\/p>\n The Suns still have a three-game lead on the eighth-place Warriors and are still tied in the loss column with the sixth-place Wolves (with whom they\u2019ve already won the head-to-head tiebreaker). The Suns are 8-11 in games played between the top eight teams in the West, but the Wolves are the one team that\u2019s been worse (6-11).<\/p>\n Coming up: The Suns have scored just 105.0 points per 100 possessions<\/a> as they\u2019ve lost their three February home games, set to host the Mavs and Thunder this week.<\/p>\n Week 17<\/a>: vs. DAL, vs. OKC<\/p>\n #9<\/p>\n Record: 32-21<\/p>\n OffRtg: 117.2 (6) DefRtg: 113.4 (13) NetRtg: +3.8 (9) Pace: 101.8 (8)<\/p>\n James Harden on the Cavs<\/a>? OK! The Cavs clearly wanted to maximize their chances of winning this season, and the mostly durable Harden replaces the banged-up Darius Garland. It\u2019s also a talent upgrade, though not an ideal fit on the surface.<\/p>\n Three takeaways<\/p>\n Harden\u2019s Cavs career seemingly had a soft launch on Saturday, when the Cavs had a rest advantage in Sacramento, with the Kings having lost 11 straight games. But the Cavs needed to erase two double-digit deficits plus a seven-point deficit with less than four minutes left to escape with the victory. Harden and Donovan Mitchell both shot better than 50%, their minutes were staggered so that at least one of the two was always on the floor, and their minutes apart were much better than their minutes together (small sample size warning!).<\/p>\n The game was closer than it should have been because it was the Cavs\u2019 worst defensive game (126 points allowed on 102 possessions) in their last nine. But they were without both Evan Mobley (who\u2019s missed the last five games) and Dean Wade, so they were playing some four-guard lineups, with Harden or Mitchell sometimes asked to guard Precious Achiuwa. They still have the league\u2019s sixth-ranked defense<\/a> as they\u2019ve had their best record<\/a> (15-5) over the last six weeks.<\/p>\n Jarrett Allen also scored 27 points in Sacramento, six days after he scored a career-high 40 in Portland. He\u2019s looked more aggressive of late, registering a usage rate of 23.9%<\/a> over Mobley\u2019s five-game absence, up from 17.8% prior<\/a>. The Cavs are now 14-2<\/a> when Allen has scored at least 15 points and he should get more scoring opportunities with Harden running the offense.<\/p>\n Coming up: The Cavs\u2019 five-game trip concludes with an intriguing game in Denver on Monday. They\u2019ll then return home for a game against the Wizards, having won 14 straight against Washington.<\/p>\n Week 17<\/a>: @ DEN, vs. WAS<\/p>\n #10<\/p>\n Record: 32-22<\/p>\n OffRtg: 116.6 (8) DefRtg: 112.8 (10) NetRtg: +3.9 (8) Pace: 101.4 (10)<\/p>\n The Wolves were the Western Conference contender that made the best win-now move at the deadline, trading Rob Dillingham and a bunch of second-round picks for Ayo Dosunmu. But they\u2019re also the Western Conference contender that\u2019s struggling to beat below-.500 teams, and they\u2019ve dropped three of their last four games<\/a>.<\/p>\n Three takeaways<\/p>\n Dosunmu obviously addresses a need for the Wolves, who have gotten very little guard production off the bench. They\u2019ve been 9.8 points per 100 possessions<\/a> better with Donte DiVincenzo on the floor (plus-7.2) than they\u2019ve been with him off the floor (minus-2.6), a much bigger on-off differential than any of their starters had last season<\/a>.<\/p>\n Alas, when Dosunmu made his debut on Sunday afternoon, the Wolves were outscored by 33 points in his 25 1\/2 minutes. They trailed by as many as 28 points, and it was just the second time<\/a> this season that they\u2019ve scored less than a point per possession.<\/p>\n The other end of the floor has been the bigger issue in these early days of February, with the three games prior to Sunday\u2019s loss being the Wolves\u2019 worst three-game stretch of defense this season (127.8 points allowed per 100 possessions). And those games came against teams \u2013 Memphis, Toronto and New Orleans \u2013 that rank in the bottom half of the league offensively.<\/p>\n Coming up: The Wolves are two games into a stretch (that spans the All-Star break) of six straight at home. They\u2019ll host the Hawks on Monday, with the first meeting (Dec. 31 in Atlanta) having been one of the Wolves\u2019 worst losses<\/a> of the season.<\/p>\n Week 17<\/a>: vs. ATL, vs. POR<\/p>\n #11<\/p>\n Record: 32-19<\/p>\n OffRtg: 116.5 (9) DefRtg: 116.5 (22) NetRtg: +0.0 (16) Pace: 99.5 (20)<\/p>\n Austin Reaves is back and the Lakers have won eight of their last 11 games<\/a> to remain in the top five in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n Three takeaways<\/p>\n Reaves has come off the bench in his three games back and Luka Don\u010di\u0107 missed their win over the Warriors (who were without Stephen Curry) on Saturday. But with their wins over the Nets and Sixers last week, the Lakers are 7-3 when Don\u010di\u0107, Reaves and LeBron James have all been available, even though they\u2019ve been outscored by 9.6 points per 100 possessions<\/a> (with sub-par offensive numbers) in 152 minutes with all three on the floor.<\/p>\n The Lakers have had a top-10 defense<\/a> (111.3 points allowed per 100 possessions) over this 8-3 stretch, which has been pretty balanced in regard to the opposing offenses. A big drop in opponent 3-point percentage is a big part of that, but the Lakers also rank first<\/a> by a healthy margin in opponent free throw rate (18.5 attempts per 100 shots from the field) over the last 13 games, up from 10th<\/a> (25.9 per 100) prior.<\/p>\n The Lakers lead the league in free-throw differential (plus-4.1 points per game) for what would be the fourth straight season. Reaves was 20-for-24 from the line<\/a> in his first three games back and has the sixth-highest individual free-throw rate (54 attempts per 100 shots from the field) among 235 players with at least 250 field goal attempts.<\/p>\n Coming up: The Lakers are 2-4 against the four Western Conference teams ahead of them in the standings and are set to host the Thunder and Spurs in a Monday-Tuesday back-to-back. One of those two wins came (at home in early November) against the Spurs, but they\u2019ll be at a rest disadvantage this week.<\/p>\n Week 17<\/a>: vs. OKC, vs. SAS, vs. DAL<\/p>\n #12<\/p>\n Record: 30-22<\/p>\n OffRtg: 115.4 (13) DefRtg: 113.8 (14) NetRtg: +1.5 (15) Pace: 99.5 (19)<\/p>\n The Sixers blew a 14-point, second-half lead in L.A. on Thursday, but they\u2019ve won six of their last seven games and remain in the mix for a top-four seed in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n Three takeaways<\/p>\n The Sixers and the Magic (who have a negative point differential) are the only teams with winning records that rank outside the top 10<\/a> on both ends of the floor. Philly\u2019s strong stretches on either end have been fleeting, even with Joel Embiid playing in 18 of the last 22 games. The five-game winning streak (their longest of the season) that concluded with their win at Golden State on Tuesday was their best five-game stretch of offense (129.4 points scored per 100 possessions) this season, shooting 5-for-24 from 3-point range as the streak came to an end against the Lakers, and they had some turnover issues in their win in Phoenix on Saturday.<\/p>\n Only Luka Don\u010di\u0107 and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander have averaged more points<\/a> than Embiid (30.2) since Christmas. Shooting improvement from his first 12 games has mostly come outside the paint, from 43.6% to 51.6%<\/a> from mid-range and from 24.1% to 38.2% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n There were a lot of surprising moves made at the trade deadline, and the Sixers sending Jared McCain to Oklahoma City was near the top of the list. But the second-year guard ranked ninth<\/a> on the team in minutes per game and 10th<\/a> in total minutes in the clutch, when the Sixers favored Tyrese Maxey, VJ Edgecombe and Quentin Grimes in the backcourt. (They\u2019re also not afraid to have Trendon Watford handle the ball.) They\u2019ve outscored their opponents by 9.4 points per 100 possessions<\/a> in 436 total minutes with Maxey, Edgecombe and Grimes on the floor together.<\/p>\n Coming up: The sixth-place Sixers trail the second-place Knicks by only three games in the loss column, and they\u2019ve won two of the first three head-to-head meetings<\/a>. Both of those wins came with rest advantages and the Sixers will have a rest advantage again when the season series concludes in Philadelphia on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Week 17<\/a>: @ POR, vs. NYK<\/p>\n #13<\/p>\n Record: 32-22<\/p>\n OffRtg: 114.0 (16) DefRtg: 112.1 (5) NetRtg: +1.9 (14) Pace: 99.4 (21)<\/p>\n The Raptors only made minor moves at the deadline<\/a>, and they slipped out of the top four in the East with another fourth-quarter collapse on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Three takeaways<\/p>\n The Raptors led by 18 in the third quarter and were still up 12 early in the fourth on Wednesday. But they then saw the Wolves go on a 30-13 run and suffered their fourth loss in a game they led by double-digits in the fourth. That total leads the league, and the Raptors have the league\u2019s 26th-ranked fourth-quarter offense<\/a> (109.0 points scored per 100 possessions). Jamal Shead missed an open 3 for the lead late in the Minnesota loss and has the worst fourth-quarter effective field goal percentage<\/a> (36.1%) among 277 players with at least 50 attempts.<\/p>\n The Raptors are 9-1 since Jan. 1 against teams currently below .500, with the only loss having come to the much-improved Clippers (before they traded two of their three best players). And they recovered from the loss to the Wolves by taking care of business against Chicago and Indiana. They had 11 fewer turnovers than their opponents over the two wins and rank third in turnover differential (1.9 fewer per game) for the season.<\/p>\n The one minor addition the Raptors made was Trayce Jackson-Davis, who was called into duty on Sunday when Collin Murray-Boyles reaggravated a thumb injury in the first half. Jackson-Davis had eight offensive rebounds in 15 1\/2 minutes in the win over Indiana, helping the Raptors outscore the Pacers by 15 points (21-6) on second chances. Jackson-Davis hasn\u2019t been quite as good a defensive rebounder as he was in his first two seasons<\/a>, but he ranks 20th<\/a> in offensive rebounding percentage (12.0%) among 343 players who\u2019ve averaged at least 10 minutes per game. Murray-Boyles (10.3%) ranks 30th.<\/p>\n Coming up: The Raptors are 0-6 against the second-place Knicks and third-place Celtics, but they\u2019ve yet to face the first-place Pistons (who are second in turnover differential). The first of three meetings will be on Wednesday in Toronto.<\/p>\n Week 17<\/a>: vs. DET<\/p>\n #14<\/p>\n Record: 25-27<\/p>\n OffRtg: 115.6 (12) DefRtg: 115.8 (20) NetRtg: -0.3 (17) Pace: 96.7 (28)<\/p>\n The Clippers still have the league\u2019s best record (19-6) since Dec. 20, but they traded two of their three best players at the deadline<\/a>, seemingly punting on this run up the standings, even though claiming a spot in the top six in the West wouldn\u2019t have been impossible.<\/p>\n Three takeaways<\/p>\n Defense was another story, but James Harden carried the Clippers\u2019 offense for much of the last two seasons. At the time he played his last game with LA, the Clips had scored 12.3 more points per 100 possessions<\/a> with Harden on the floor (118.9) than they had with him off the floor (106.6) this season. Ivica Zubac, of course, was Harden\u2019s favorite pick-and-roll partner, but he\u2019s still just 28 years old, so you could certainly see the Clippers build their future around him and Darius Garland. Alas, the package from the Pacers (featuring two first-round picks) was too good for them to pass up.<\/p>\n Kawhi Leonard is still here, and he totaled 72 points, 17 rebounds, nine assists and six steals<\/a> as the Clippers won weekend games in Sacramento and Minnesota. They\u2019ve now outscored their opponents by 11.6 points per 100 possessions (with great defensive numbers) in 319 minutes with Leonard on the floor without Harden or Zubac.<\/p>\n With double-digit losses to the Sixers and Cavs early last week, the Clippers\u2019 point differential is back in the red. But after starting the season 2-10 in games that were within five points in the last five minutes, they\u2019ve won six straight. They\u2019re still one of three teams<\/a> \u2013 the Lakers and Wizards are the others \u2013 that have played fewer than 20 clutch games all season.<\/p>\n Coming up: The Clippers\u2019 win in Minnesota on Sunday began a stretch of seven straight games against teams with winning records, and they\u2019ll go into the break with a back-to-back in Houston. The last meeting (a 20-point win just before Christmas) was the Clippers best offensive game<\/a> of the season (128 points on just 90 possessions).<\/p>\n Week 17<\/a>: @ HOU, @ HOU<\/p>\n #15<\/p>\n Record: 25-28<\/p>\n OffRtg: 117.1 (7) DefRtg: 114.9 (17) NetRtg: +2.2 (10) Pace: 98.6 (23)<\/p>\n The Hornets\u2019 winning streak is at nine games, they\u2019re now in SoFi Play-In Tournament position in the Eastern Conference, and they drew within a half game of the ninth-place Hawks with a clutch win in Atlanta on Saturday.<\/p>\n Three takeaways<\/p>\n The streak includes four wins over teams \u2013 the Magic, Sixers, Spurs and Rockets \u2013 with winning records. The Hornets had a rest advantage in Houston on Thursday, and they won the battle on the glass between the league\u2019s two best rebounding teams. They\u2019ve led the league<\/a> in rebounding percentage (57.2%) by a wide margin during the winning streak, holding their opponents to six second-chance points or fewer in four of the nine games<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Hornets\u2019 starting lineup has eclipsed the 200-minute mark and has outscored opponents by 30.6 points per 100 possessions<\/a>, which would be the second-best mark for a lineup that played at least 200 minutes in the 19 seasons for which we have lineup data. Charlotte is now 21-7 when LaMelo Ball, Brandon Miller and Kon Knueppel have all started.<\/p>\n The addition of Coby White<\/a> (who\u2019s out until after the All-Star break) should help the Hornets\u2019 bench, which struggled against the Pelicans last Monday. The Hornets came back from a 22-point deficit in that one and now have as many wins (they\u2019re 7-25) in games they trailed by double-digits as they did all of last season (7-57).<\/p>\n Coming up: The Hornets lost their first four games against the other three teams \u2013 Orlando, Miami and Atlanta \u2013 in the Eastern Conference Play-In Club, but they\u2019ve since won their last four, with two of those wins coming against the Hawks. The fourth (and final) meeting will be on Wednesday in Charlotte.<\/p>\n Week 17<\/a>: vs. DET, vs. ATL<\/p>\n #16<\/p>\n Record: 28-25<\/p>\n OffRtg: 114.3 (15) DefRtg: 112.2 (7) NetRtg: +2.1 (12) Pace: 100.7 (16)<\/p>\n The Warriors could not get the Bucks to trade Giannis Antetokounmpo at the deadline, they\u2019ve lost six of their last nine games, and they\u2019re playing without Stephen Curry, probably until after the All-Star break.<\/p>\n Three takeaways<\/p>\n The Warriors got a good win (without Curry) in Phoenix on Thursday, coming back from 11 points down with a little more than seven minutes left. They took 55 (72%) of their 76 shots from 3-point range, the highest single-game 3-point rate in the 47 years of the 3-point line. The Warriors have the five highest rates<\/a> (two in games without Curry) this season, and have won four of those five games.<\/p>\n The other side of that coin is that the Warriors attempted just two free throws, the fewest for any team in any game in the last two seasons, in their loss to the Sixers on Tuesday. They\u2019re one of five teams that have a lower free-throw rate than last season, seeing the league\u2019s second-biggest jump in turnover rate and its fourth-biggest drop in offensive rebounding percentage.<\/p>\n The Warriors\u2019 offense has scored 8.7 more points per 100 possessions at home (118.8, fourth<\/a>) than they have on the road (110.1, 24th<\/a>). That\u2019s the league\u2019s biggest home-road differential on either end of the floor.<\/p>\n Coming up: The Warriors have still lost their last three games<\/a> at home, and they\u2019ll go into the break with visits from the Grizzlies and Spurs.<\/p>\n Week 17<\/a>: vs. MEM, vs SAS<\/p>\n #17<\/p>\n Record: 28-26<\/p>\n OffRtg: 113.7 (18) DefRtg: 111.7 (4) NetRtg: +2.0 (13) Pace: 104.9 (1)<\/p>\n The Heat were the only Eastern Conference team that didn\u2019t make a trade<\/a> in the week before the deadline, probably because they\u2019re waiting for a big fish to really become available. In the meantime, they remain floating just above .500, hanging steadily in eighth place in the East.<\/p>\n Three takeaways<\/p>\n The Heat had a 22-point lead in Boston on Friday, but they blew it and then went scoreless on their final five possessions of a two-point loss. They\u2019re now 1-10 since Thanksgiving against the seven teams ahead of them in the Eastern Conference standings, having scored just 109.5 points per 100 possessions over those 11 games.<\/p>\n Most of that 22-point lead disappeared late in the third quarter, and the Heat also had some bad bench minutes in their loss to the Hawks three nights earlier. Over the two games, they were outscored by 22 points<\/a> in Bam Adebayo\u2019s 31 minutes off the floor. But after a slow start in Washington on Sunday, the bench was a big factor in the 35-8 Miami run<\/a> spanning the first and second quarters, turning an eight-point deficit into a 19-point lead.<\/p>\n Some of that bench production came from Rookie Kasparas Jaku\u010dionis, who scored a career-high 22 points in the win over Washington, shooting 6-for-6 from 3-point range. For the season, he\u2019s shot much better from beyond the arc (30-for-67, 44.8%) than he has inside (11-for-42, 26.2%<\/a>).<\/p>\n Coming up: Before Sunday, the Heat had played the fewest games (11) against the nine teams<\/a> that are more than five games below .500. They\u2019re 9-3 against that group after taking care of business against the Wizards, and they\u2019ll face the Jazz and Pelicans this week.<\/p>\n Week 17<\/a>: vs. UTA, @ NOP<\/p>\n #18<\/p>\n Record: 27-24<\/p>\n OffRtg: 113.4 (21) DefRtg: 114.1 (15) NetRtg: -0.6 (18) Pace: 100.8 (15)<\/p>\n After beginning February with a tough, 0-2 trip through Oklahoma City and San Antonio, the Magic returned home and took care of business against the Nets and Jazz, improving to 9-1 against the bottom six teams<\/a> in the league and keeping themselves in contention for a top-six spot in the East.<\/p>\n Three takeaways<\/p>\n Jalen Suggs recorded his first career triple-double (15, 11 and 11) in the win over Brooklyn, adding three steals and four blocks. He then made multiple big plays down the stretch against Utah, draining a 3-pointer for the tie<\/a>, stripping Isaiah Collier<\/a> (leading to Desmond Bane\u2019s free throws for the lead), and deflecting an inbounds pass to help seal the win. The Magic remain at their best (plus-7.0 points per 100 possessions<\/a>) with Suggs on the floor.<\/p>\n The Heat have seen the league\u2019s biggest jump in pace from last season by a huge margin. The Magic have seen the second-biggest jump (+4.3 possessions per 48 minutes<\/a>) and their win over the Jazz on Saturday was the fastest-paced game<\/a> played in the league this season. The two teams combined for 81 points in transition (44-37 in favor of Orlando), according to Synergy tracking.<\/p>\n With the Lakers having pushed their season-long differential above zero, the Magic are the only team<\/a> with a winning record and a negative point differential. They\u2019ve won their last five games that have been within five points in the last five minutes, with their opponents scoring just 41 points (and committing 10 turnovers) on 45 clutch possessions over that stretch.<\/p>\n Coming up: The Magic have a good opportunity to get that point differential in the black this week, closing their pre-break schedule with a pair of home games (their first two meetings of the season) against the Bucks.<\/p>\n Week 17<\/a>: vs. MIL, vs. MIL<\/p>\n #19<\/p>\n Record: 26-28<\/p>\n OffRtg: 113.8 (17) DefRtg: 114.7 (16) NetRtg: -0.9 (19) Pace: 102.9 (3)<\/p>\n The Hawks somehow got more athletic at the deadline<\/a>, taking a flyer on Jonathan Kuminga, who won\u2019t be available until after the All-Star break<\/a>. On the floor, Atlanta has remained competitive, though it lost a big game to the Hornets on Saturday.<\/p>\n Three takeaways<\/p>\n CJ McCollum continues to come off the bench, but he also continues to close games, usually in place of Zaccharie Risacher. Since his arrival, the Hawks have been at their best (plus-3.9 points per 100 possessions<\/a>) with McCollum on the floor, and they\u2019ve outscored their opponents by 52 points<\/a> (26.2 per 100<\/a>) in 87 minutes with McCollum, Nickeil Alexander-Walker, Dyson Daniels and Jalen Johnson on the floor together.<\/p>\n Kuminga has an effective field goal percentage of just 49.5% over the last two seasons<\/a>, down from 56.7% over his previous three. But he could help a team that ranks 29th<\/a> in free-throw rate (22.7 attempts per 100 shots from the field) and traded its best foul drawer a month ago. His career free-throw rate (36 attempts per 100 shots from the field) ranks 15th among 135 players 6-foot-8 or shorter with at least 2,000 field goal attempts over the last five years.<\/p>\n Trae Young and Kristaps Porzi\u0146\u0123is seemed like an ideal pick-and-pop combination, especially with the Hawks having other guys who could attack the rim with or without the ball. But Young and Porzi\u0146\u0123is played just three games<\/a> together with Atlanta, and they\u2019ve now both been shipped elsewhere.<\/p>\n Coming up: The Hawks are now 4-3 in games played between the four teams (all from the Southeast Division) in the Eastern Conference Play-In Club. They will go into the All-Star break with another big game against the Hornets, and their first visit to Charlotte<\/a> was one of their five wire-to-wire losses this season.<\/p>\n Week 17<\/a>: @ MIN, @ CHA<\/p>\n #20<\/p>\n Record: 25-28<\/p>\n OffRtg: 113.2 (23) DefRtg: 115.4 (18) NetRtg: -2.2 (20) Pace: 101.8 (7)<\/p>\n Before Friday, the Blazers had a six-game losing streak. But they remain comfortably in the Western Conference Play-In Club, having swept their weekend back-to-back with the 11th-place Grizzlies.<\/p>\n Three takeaways<\/p>\n There\u2019s not much to take away from the two wins over the Grizzlies, who traded Jaren Jackson Jr. at the deadline and started somebody named Jahmai Mashack on Saturday. But that is the team best positioned to take away the Blazers\u2019 spot in the Play-In and it was some relief for Portland\u2019s defense, which had allowed 129.4 points per 100 possessions<\/a> over the last three games of the losing streak.<\/p>\n Deni Avdija has missed the last four (and nine of the last 13) games, but Scoot Henderson made his season debut on Friday, scoring 11 points and dishing out nine assists in 21 minutes off the bench. Henderson obviously hasn\u2019t lived up to the pre-Draft hype over his two-plus seasons, but as the Blazers went 23-18 over their final 41 games last year, they were 7.4 points per 100 possessions<\/a> better with him on the floor (plus-7.2) than they were with him off the floor (minus-0.2).<\/p>\n The Blazers have seen the league\u2019s third biggest jump in 3-point rate, from 41.8% of their shots (17th highest<\/a>) last season to 46.4% (fourth<\/a>) this season. And they\u2019ve taken more than half of their shots from beyond the arc in five of their last nine games<\/a>. New Blazer V\u00edt Krej\u010d\u00ed has taken 15 of his 20 shots from beyond the arc and, while he\u2019s just 5-for-15 on those 3-point attempts, Portland has scored an efficient 124.3 points per 100 possessions<\/a> in his 63 minutes on the floor.<\/p>\n Coming up: The Blazers\u2019 five-game homestand concludes with a visit from their Sixers on Monday. They\u2019ll then play eight of their next 10 games on the road, closing out their pre-break schedule in Utah on Thursday night. With the two weekend wins over Memphis, the Blazers are 10-3 against the five teams behind them in the West standings.<\/p>\n Week 17<\/a>: vs. PHI, @ MIN, @ UTA<\/p>\n #21<\/p>\n Record: 24-29<\/p>\n OffRtg: 113.7 (19) DefRtg: 117.5 (25) NetRtg: -3.8 (24) Pace: 102.3 (5)<\/p>\n The Bulls are this year\u2019s winner of the \u201cMost Motley Crew After the Deadline\u201d award. Ayo Dosunmu, Kevin Huerter, Nikola Vu\u010devi\u0107 and Coby White are gone<\/a>. They\u2019ve been replaced, mostly, by guys who were discarded by contending teams.<\/p>\n Three takeaways<\/p>\n On the floor, the Bulls have gone 1-7 since they briefly climbed above .500 at 23-22. They\u2019ve had the league\u2019s worst defense<\/a> in February, having allowed 131 points per 100 possessions over their current four-game losing streak<\/a>. Only one of the four opponents (Denver) during the streak currently ranks in the top half of the league offensively.<\/p>\n The most intriguing of the new Bulls may be Jaden Ivey, who\u2019ll be a restricted free agent in July. The last two months of the season could be a major opportunity for the 23-year-old, who\u2019s seen the eighth biggest drop in usage rate (from 25.6% to 19.4%<\/a>) among 257 players who\u2019ve played at least 500 minutes in each of the last two seasons. His first two games with Chicago were just his third and fourth starts this season and the first two times<\/a> that he\u2019s played at least 30 minutes.<\/p>\n With their loss in Milwaukee last week, the Bulls are just 2-8 against the four teams behind them in the Eastern Conference standings, and one of those two wins (vs. Washington during its 14-game losing streak early in the season) came by a single point.<\/p>\n Coming up: The other win within the East\u2019s bottom five was by 22 points and came against the Nets, who the Bulls will visit on Monday.<\/p>\n Week 17<\/a>: @ BKN, @ BOS<\/p>\n #22<\/p>\n Record: 19-33<\/p>\n OffRtg: 110.3 (27) DefRtg: 113.2 (12) NetRtg: -2.9 (22) Pace: 102.5 (4)<\/p>\n The Anthony Davis Era in Dallas is over<\/a>, with the big man having played just 31 (36%) of a possible 86 games with the Mavs. Dallas went 17-14 in those 31 games and took a huge step backward when you combine the two Davis trades (the one that brought him in and the one that sent him out).<\/p>\n Three takeaways<\/p>\n In between the two Davis trades, the Mavs did get Cooper Flagg, who had four straight games<\/a> of more than 30 points before having a relatively quiet night in San Antonio on Saturday. Now averaging over 20 per game<\/a>, he\u2019d be just the second rookie in the last 46 years (since Larry Bird in 1979-80) to average at least 20 points, six rebounds and four assists. The other, of course, was Luka Don\u010di\u0107.<\/p>\n Despite Flagg\u2019s scoring streak, the Mavs have scored just 109.6 points per 100 possessions<\/a> over their seven-game losing streak. Their shooters \u2013 Max Christie and Klay Thompson \u2013 have combined to shoot just 38% (including 32% from 3-point range) over the seven games.<\/p>\n The Mavs got a pair of first-round picks in the Davis trade, but they\u2019ll both be in the 20s. As is usually the case after a team trades a star, its best asset is its own pick. The Mavs are now seventh in the upside-down standings and their 2026 pick is the only one in the next five years that they control.<\/p>\n Coming up: The Mavs\u2019 loss in San Antonio on Saturday was the start of a stretch (spanning the break) of six straight road games. They\u2019re now 5-14 (with five straight losses) against the top eight teams in the West, set to visit the Suns and Lakers this week.<\/p>\n Week 17<\/a>: @ PHX, @ LAL<\/p>\n #23<\/p>\n Record: 21-29<\/p>\n OffRtg: 113.0 (24) DefRtg: 116.6 (23) NetRtg: -3.7 (23) Pace: 98.6 (24)<\/p>\n The trade deadline<\/a> has come and gone, and Giannis Antetokounmpo is still a member of the Bucks. They will certainly do their best to keep him around in the offseason.<\/p>\n Three takeaways<\/p>\n Before Tuesday, the Bucks were 3-14 without Antetokounmpo, who\u2019s now missed six straight games. But they\u2019ve suddenly won three straight<\/a> for the first time this season, keeping themselves in the Play-In race in the Eastern Conference. The opponents \u2013 Chicago, New Orleans and Indiana \u2013 haven\u2019t been good, but it\u2019s certainly progress. It\u2019s been their best three-game stretch of offense (126.5 points scored per 100 possessions<\/a>) all season.<\/p>\n
\nEasiest: 1. Denver, 2. Detroit, 3. Minnesota
\nSchedule strength = cumulative opponent record.<\/p>\n
\nFree falls of the week: Houston, Indiana, LA Clippers, Minnesota (-3)<\/p>\n
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NetRtg<\/a>: Point differential per 100 possessions (League Rank)
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