Schedule strength through Week 22<\/p>\n
Toughest: 1. Brooklyn, 2. Sacramento, 3. Golden State
\nEasiest: 1. Detroit, 2. Boston, 3. New York
\nSchedule strength = cumulative opponent record.<\/p>\n
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Movement in the Rankings<\/p>\n
High jumps of the week: Charlotte (+5), Atlanta (+3)
\nFree fall of the week: Orlando (-4)<\/p>\n
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Week 23 Team to Watch<\/p>\n
Cleveland<\/a> \u2014 The Cavs have won three straight games, but they were unconvincing wins against bottom-10 teams. The competition gets tougher this week, with their three games against the Magic and Heat (x 2) being potential playoff previews.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Previously\u2026<\/p>\n OffRtg<\/a>: Points scored per 100 possessions (League Rank) The league has averaged 114.5 points scored per 100 possessions and 100.2 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: 56-15<\/p>\n OffRtg: 117.1 (7) DefRtg: 106.1 (1) NetRtg: +11.0 (1) Pace: 100.5 (14)<\/p>\n With an 11-game winning streak, the Thunder are holding strong to the league\u2019s best record, three games ahead of the Spurs, who\u2019ve been playing just as well over the last several weeks.<\/p>\n Three takeaways<\/p>\n The Thunder have the league\u2019s best record<\/a> (14-1) since the All-Star break, even though they rank just 16th<\/a> in post-break offense. Their win in Washington on Saturday was their most efficient game (132 points on 101 possessions) since the break, but only five teams have seen bigger post-break drops in points scored per 100 possessions.<\/p>\n Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has seen only a small drop in efficiency, and the post-break drop-off has come entirely in his minutes on the floor (-6.4 per 100). Among 166 players with at least 200 field goal attempts before the All-Star break and at least 100 since, Lu Dort (from 52.2% to 39.5%<\/a>) and Aaron Wiggins (from 54.7% to 43.0%<\/a>) have seen the fourth and fifth biggest drops in effective field goal percentage.<\/p>\n Overall (and with Jalen Williams\u2019 absence to blame), the Thunder\u2019s half-court offense hasn\u2019t been as good as it was last season. They rank ninth in half-court efficiency, according to tracking data, down from third last season. And because they haven\u2019t forced quite as many live-ball turnovers, they\u2019ve played in the halfcourt more often. They\u2019ve gone from 17th to 29th in the percentage of their shots that have come in the first six seconds of the shot clock.<\/p>\n Coming up: Williams is set to make his return from a 16-game absence when the Thunder visit the Sixers on Monday. Their longest road trip of the season (which concludes in Boston two nights later) is immediately followed by their longest homestand of the season (five games). They\u2019re 4-1 against the top four teams in the East, set to play the Celtics, Knicks and Pistons in the next eight days.<\/p>\n Week 23<\/a>: @ PHI, @ BOS, vs. CHI, vs. NYK<\/p>\n #2<\/p>\n Record: 53-18<\/p>\n OffRtg: 118.0 (4) DefRtg: 110.5 (3) NetRtg: +7.5 (4) Pace: 100.8 (12)<\/p>\n The Spurs might not catch the Thunder, but they\u2019re looking good to finish with the league\u2019s second-best record. They\u2019re 21-2 since Feb. 1, with 12 of those 21 wins coming against other teams with winning records.<\/p>\n Three takeaways<\/p>\n The Spurs ranked seventh offensively at the All-Star break, and they\u2019ve had the league\u2019s fourth-most-improved\u00a0offense since the break. They\u2019ve scored 124.7 points per 100 possessions<\/a> over their last 11 games, with eight guys<\/a> averaging double-figures over that stretch. Not all eight have played in all 11 games, but the offense has continued to roll, even though at least one of Dylan Harper, Stephen Castle or Devin Vassell has missed each of their last five.<\/p>\n The Spurs came back from 10 points down with less than five minutes left to beat the Suns on Thursday, with Victor Wembanyama draining the game-winning jumper<\/a> with 1.1 seconds left. San Antonio is one of two teams \u2013 the Sixers are the other \u2013 with a league-high five wins (they\u2019re 5-11) in games they trailed by double-digits in the fourth. Wembanyama is one of eight players with at least five buckets (he\u2019s 5-for-8) to tie or take the lead in the final minute of the fourth quarter or overtime.<\/p>\n It\u2019s worth remembering that the Spurs were one of four teams that were worse than average on both ends of the floor in each of the last three seasons. They\u2019re now 10.3 points per 100 possessions<\/a> better than they were last season (minus-2.8), which would be the eighth biggest season-to-season jump in the 30 seasons for which we have play-by-play data. (The Hornets have seen the second biggest.)<\/p>\n Coming up: The Spurs will play six of their next seven games on the road, but after visiting the Heat on Monday, they\u2019ll play five straight games against teams with losing records. Both Castle and Vassell are listed as questionable for the game in Miami.<\/p>\n Week 23<\/a>: @ MIA, @ MEM, @ MIL<\/p>\n #3<\/p>\n Record: 51-19<\/p>\n OffRtg: 116.9 (9) DefRtg: 108.8 (2) NetRtg: +8.0 (2) Pace: 100.1 (19)<\/p>\n Cade Cunningham is out<\/a> for at least two weeks, having suffered a collapsed lung in Washington on Tuesday. But the Pistons still have a five-game lead in the loss column atop the East and are 7-2 without their star after taking care of business against the Wizards and Warriors last week.<\/p>\n Three takeaways<\/p>\n The wins without Cunningham have come against the Bulls (twice), Sixers, Pacers, Pelicans, Wizards and Warriors (without Stephen Curry), while one of the two losses was against the Nets. Not exactly the best teams in the league, and, as you would expect, success in those games has been about defense. The Pistons have scored just 112.7 points per 100 possessions, but have allowed just 103.0 per 100 over the nine total games without Cunningham.<\/p>\n Jalen Duren hasn\u2019t needed Cunningham to put up numbers. He scored a career-high 36 points in the game in which Cunningham was injured in the first quarter, and then totaled 47 over the next two. He\u2019s averaged 23.4 points<\/a> on a true shooting percentage of 69.5% since the All-Star break, with that latter mark being the highest among 31 players who\u2019ve averaged at least 20 points in 10 games or more since the break.<\/p>\n The Pistons\u2019 turnover rate has been much lower with Cunningham on the floor (13.8 per 100 possessions<\/a>) than it\u2019s been with him off the floor (16.2 per 100), but they still committed 20 fewer turnovers than Washington and Golden State in the two wins without him last week. They continue to lead the league in shot-opportunity differential by a wide margin, having averaged 4.7 more per game than their opponents.<\/p>\n Coming up: Continuing to win without Cunningham will be tougher going forward, with the Pistons playing eight of their next nine games against teams with winning records. After they host the Lakers on Monday, they\u2019ll begin their second stretch of five games in seven days.<\/p>\n Week 23<\/a>: vs. LAL, vs. ATL, vs. NOP, @ MIN<\/p>\n #4<\/p>\n Record: 47-25<\/p>\n OffRtg: 118.5 (3) DefRtg: 111.7 (5) NetRtg: +6.9 (5) Pace: 98.4 (23)<\/p>\n The Knicks have taken care of business against their super-soft stretch of schedule, and their six-game winning streak has them just a half game behind the second-place Celtics.<\/p>\n Three takeaways<\/p>\n The Knicks barely beat the Nets on Friday, but six straight games against teams no better than the Curry-less Warriors have still been good for their point differential. They\u2019re now one of three teams<\/a> \u2013 the Celtics and Spurs are the others \u2013 that rank in the top five on both ends of the floor. Two seasons ago (seventh and ninth<\/a>) was the only time in the previous 29 seasons of play-by-play data that the Knicks ranked in the top 10 on both ends of the floor.<\/p>\n Josh Hart has missed three of the six games on the winning streak, but he scored a season-high 33 points as the Knicks finally got a comfortable win over the Pacers on Tuesday. With nine straight makes, he\u2019s now shooting 40.4% from 3-point range<\/a>, up from 32.2% over the last two seasons. And if that carries over to the playoffs, it obviously makes the Knicks much tougher to defend.<\/p>\n The Knicks\u2019 schedule now gets tougher. The Pelicans (who they host on Tuesday) have been the most dangerous team in the bottom 10, and then seven of the Knicks\u2019 final nine games will come against teams with winning records. But the Celtics have an even tougher final three weeks (nine of 11 vs. winning teams), and the final head-to-head meeting (April 9) will be in New York.<\/p>\n Coming up: Jalen Brunson shot just 5-for-18 in a three-point loss<\/a> to the Thunder at Madison Square Garden earlier this month. The Knicks will make their lone (regular-season) visit to Oklahoma City on Sunday, the second game of a four-game trip.<\/p>\n Week 23<\/a>: vs. NOP, @ CHA, @ OKC<\/p>\n #5<\/p>\n Record: 47-24<\/p>\n OffRtg: 119.3 (2) DefRtg: 111.5 (4) NetRtg: +7.8 (3) Pace: 99.5 (30)<\/p>\n The Celtics might be losing their grip on second place in the East. They had a four-game winning streak, but came up empty against the Wolves on Sunday and have the East\u2019s toughest remaining schedule.<\/p>\n Three takeaways<\/p>\n The Celtics still rank second offensively overall, but they continue to come up short on that end of the floor against the best teams in the league. Their loss to the Wolves on Sunday came with their second-worst offensive performance (92 points on 101 possessions) of the season. They\u2019re now 8-13 in games played between the top 10 teams in the league<\/a>, with six of their seven least efficient games included.<\/p>\n It doesn\u2019t help that Jayson Tatum is still finding his legs. He\u2019s shot 39% (29% from 3-point range) in his eight games and the Celtics\u2019 new starting lineup has scored just 105.4 points per 100 possessions<\/a> in its 87 minutes.<\/p>\n The defense and depth are still there. The Celtics\u2019 bench hasn\u2019t been quite as good as it was in the previous two seasons, but it still ranks second<\/a> for the second straight year. Luka Garza is helping us forget about Nikola Vu\u010devi\u0107, averaging 13.8 points<\/a> in 17.9 minutes over the winning streak.<\/p>\n Coming up: The Celtics lost in the final second<\/a> in Oklahoma City just 11 days ago, and they\u2019ll get another shot at the champs on Wednesday. Then they\u2019ll have some potential playoff previews, with four straight games against the Hawks (twice), Hornets and Heat. The Celtics are 11-5 (5-3 at home) against the 5-10 tier in the East.<\/p>\n Week 23<\/a>: vs. OKC, vs. ATL, @ CHA<\/p>\n #6<\/p>\n Record: 46-25<\/p>\n OffRtg: 117.0 (8) DefRtg: 115.7 (20) NetRtg: +1.3 (13) Pace: 99.3 (21)<\/p>\n The Lakers continue to roll, sweeping two huge games in Houston and then two in Florida to run their winning streak to nine games<\/a> and put themselves in good position to finish third in the West.<\/p>\n Three takeaways<\/p>\n Each of the Lakers\u2019 last five games has been within five points in the last five minutes, and they\u2019ve scored 66 points on 50 clutch offensive possessions (1.32 per) over that stretch. Luka Don\u010di\u0107 has led the way with 24 clutch points<\/a> (hitting some ridiculous shots) and five clutch assists over that stretch, but Deandre Ayton has also had some big buckets and big offensive rebounds, and JJ Redick gets credit for the play design that got Luke Kennard a wide-open 3 for the win<\/a> in Orlando on Saturday. The Lakers are now tied for the fourth-best clutch record (22-6, .786<\/a>) in the 30 seasons for which we have clutch data.<\/p>\n The Lakers were 34-24 through their first 58 games, but had been outscored by 4.9 points per 100 possessions<\/a> in 238 minutes with Don\u010di\u0107, Austin Reaves and LeBron James on the floor together. As they\u2019ve won 12 of their last 13, they\u2019ve outscored opponents by 18.3 per 100<\/a> in the trio\u2019s 216 minutes together, with the bigger difference (109.6 vs. 124.3 scored per 100) coming on offense.<\/p>\n The Lakers now own the head-to-head tie-breakers<\/a> with the Rockets (2-1), Nuggets (2-1) and Wolves (3-0). Houston has the slightly easier remaining schedule, but the Lakers also have more games remaining against teams currently below .500 (six) than they have against teams currently above (five).<\/p>\n Coming up: One of the Lakers\u2019 five remaining games against teams with winning records is in Detroit on Monday, when the Pistons will be without Cade Cunningham. He had 27 points and 11 assists as the Pistons won the first meeting<\/a> by 22.<\/p>\n Week 23<\/a>: @ DET, @ IND, vs. BKN<\/p>\n #7<\/p>\n Record: 44-28<\/p>\n OffRtg: 120.2 (1) DefRtg: 115.8 (21) NetRtg: +4.4 (6) Pace: 99.3 (20)<\/p>\n The Nuggets seemed to feel the effects of a back-to-back. They played in Memphis less than 24 hours after playing in Denver, losing to the Grizzlies on Wednesday. But they\u2019ve won five of their last seven (the other loss was in overtime), and more importantly, they\u2019re whole again.<\/p>\n Three takeaways<\/p>\n Peyton Watson returned from a 19-game absence on Sunday<\/a>, scoring 14 points off the bench in the Nuggets\u2019 win over the Blazers. It was the first time since Nov. 12 (Game 11) that they had their five starters and Watson all available. The starting lineup has now been together for seven of the last nine games, scoring a ridiculous 135.9 points per 100 possessions<\/a> in its 93 minutes over that stretch.<\/p>\n The search continues for a lineup to keep the Nuggets afloat when Nikola Joki\u0107 is off the floor. Jonas Valan\u010di\u016bnas was DNP\u2019d in their two games over the weekend, with Watson, Aaron Gordon or Spencer Jones manning the five when the three-time Kia MVP rested. Denver has been outscored by 8.6 points per 100 possessions in 456 minutes with Jamal Murray and Valan\u010di\u016bnas on the floor without Joki\u0107, but has been in the plus in a little more than 200 minutes with Murray on the floor without any bigs.<\/p>\n The Nuggets\u2019 win over the Blazers on Sunday was the seventh time<\/a> this season that they\u2019ve taken at least half of their shots from 3-point range, something they didn\u2019t do once in either of the previous two seasons. They still rank just 19th<\/a> in 3-point rate (40.6% of their shots), but have now seen the league\u2019s biggest jump from last season (35.6%, 30th<\/a>). That\u2019s probably a good thing when you lead the league<\/a> in 3-point percentage (39.2%).<\/p>\n Coming up: The Nuggets are the only team done playing the opposite conference, finishing 18-12 against the East<\/a> with their comeback win over Toronto over the weekend. They\u2019ll be the second team done playing back-to-backs, with their final one coming on Tuesday and Wednesday. The second game (vs. Dallas) is the start of a stretch in which they play seven of eight at home.<\/p>\n Week 23<\/a>: @ PHX, vs. DAL, vs. UTA, vs. GSW<\/p>\n #8<\/p>\n Record: 43-27<\/p>\n OffRtg: 116.5 (10) DefRtg: 112.3 (7) NetRtg: +4.2 (8) Pace: 96.7 (29)<\/p>\n The Rockets lost their two more important games of last week, blowing two late leads (and losing the tie-breaker) to the Lakers. But they ended the Hawks\u2019 11-game winning streak on Friday and came back from two double-digit deficits to beat the Heat at the buzzer the following night.<\/p>\n Three takeaways<\/p>\n The Rockets rank lower in clutch defense (25th) than they do in clutch offense (21st), and they certainly struggled to stop Luka Don\u010di\u0107 in the fourth quarter on Wednesday. But they also scored just two points on nine possessions down the stretch of the first game against the Lakers, going 0-for-9 from the field, with four turnovers. They\u2019re still tied for the second fewest losses (they\u2019re 24-7) in games that weren\u2019t within five points in the last five minutes, but are still below .500 (19-20) in the clutch after Amen Thompson\u2019s game-winning tip-in<\/a> against Miami.<\/p>\n Reed Sheppard replaced Tari Eason in the starting lineup for the last two games, and the Rockets won them both. But the Sheppard lineup was outscored by three points<\/a> over its 23 total minutes against the Hawks and Heat, and it\u2019s been outscored by 7.5 points per 100 possessions<\/a> over its 174 minutes for the season.<\/p>\n The weekend wins were the end of a stretch where the Rockets played eight of 10 games at home. Despite losses to the Lakers earlier in the week, the Rockets have the league\u2019s second-biggest differential between their home record (25-10) and their road record (18-17), with their defense being the difference<\/a>. Their 12 remaining games are split evenly between home and road, though they\u2019ll now begin a four-game trip.<\/p>\n Coming up: The Rockets have two games remaining within the top six in the West, and they\u2019re both against the sixth-place Wolves, with whom they\u2019re in a virtual tie. The first of the two is in Minnesota on Wednesday, with the Rockets having won the first meeting behind 39 points from Durant.<\/p>\n Week 23<\/a>: @ CHI, @ MIN, @ MEM, @ NOP<\/p>\n #9<\/p>\n Record: 44-27<\/p>\n OffRtg: 117.7 (6) DefRtg: 113.4 (13) NetRtg: +4.3 (7) Pace: 100.7 (13)<\/p>\n The Cavs have won three straight games (all on the road), though it\u2019s hard to say that they\u2019ve righted the ship. All three were against bottom-10 teams and all three were decided by seven points or fewer<\/a>.<\/p>\n Three takeaways<\/p>\n The good news is that the Cavs scored 35 points on 24 clutch possessions over the three games. But they only needed clutch time because they blew double-digit leads in Milwaukee and New Orleans and saw a 29-point lead<\/a> cut to one in the closing minutes in Chicago. With the three wins, the Cavs are 19-18 in games that were within five points in the last five minutes, a mark that breaks down to 12-4 against teams that are currently below .500 and 7-14 against teams that currently have winning records.<\/p>\n After scoring 24 points in his season debut, Max Strus has totaled just 11<\/a> (on 4-for-16 shooting) over the last three games. But he was on the floor<\/a> down the stretch of all three and had a couple of clutch buckets last week. Though they\u2019re just 19-18 in clutch games, the Cavs are one of six teams<\/a> that rank in the top 10 in both clutch offense and clutch defense.<\/p>\n The win in Chicago came without Donovan Mitchell and with James Harden scoring 36 points, his most in 17 games with the Cavs. Harden\u2019s usage rate with the Cavs (24.2%<\/a>) is down from his 44 games with the Clippers (30.2%), but he\u2019s been much more efficient, registering a true shooting percentage of 65.3% over those 17 games. That\u2019s a small sample size, but that would be his highest mark since his final season in Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n Coming up: The Cavs have five games remaining within the top 10 in the East, with three of the five being a three-game homestand this week. They\u2019re 2-1 against the Magic<\/a> and 1-1 against the Heat<\/a>, with the three wins having come by an average of 14.7 points and the two losses having come by an average of four.<\/p>\n Week 23<\/a>: vs. ORL, vs, MIA, vs. MIA<\/p>\n #10<\/p>\n Record: 44-28<\/p>\n OffRtg: 116.0 (12) DefRtg: 112.4 (9) NetRtg: +3.6 (10) Pace: 101.5 (9)<\/p>\n Anthony Edwards is out<\/a> with a knee issue, but the Wolves won three of their four games without him last week. That included their most important win of the season (over Phoenix) and their first win in Boston since 2005.<\/p>\n Three takeaways<\/p>\n Ayo Dosunmu has moved into the starting lineup, and the new lineup has scored just 103.5 points per 100 possessions<\/a> in its 66 minutes in Edwards\u2019 absence. But Bones Hyland has averaged 20 points<\/a> on a true shooting percentage of 70% over the four games, and the Wolves have outscored their opponents by 31.3 points per 100<\/a> in his 105 minutes. Hyland has taken less than 30% of his shots in the paint this season, but his field goal percentage in the paint (63%) is a huge leap from his first four seasons in the league (47%).<\/p>\n Even if Hyland is providing some offense off the bench, the Edwards-less Wolves need to win with defense, and last week was the first time since Christmas that they allowed fewer than 110 points per 100 possessions in four straight games<\/a>. The four opponents shot a combined 49.0% in the paint, with the Celtics\u2019 25-for-57 (43.9%) in the paint on Sunday being the second-worst paint-shooting game of the season for the league\u2019s second-ranked offense.<\/p>\n The good news in regard to Edwards\u2019 absence is that the Wolves are playing only two games this week. They also may be happy to remain in sixth place, from where they beat the third-place Lakers in the first round a year ago. The seventh-place Suns have a slightly easier remaining schedule, so the Wolves still need to find ways to win some games to avoid falling into the Play-In.<\/p>\n Coming up: The Wolves and Pistons will be the last pair of teams that haven\u2019t played each other this season. They\u2019ll play twice in the span of six days, with the first meeting in Minnesota on Saturday.<\/p>\n Week 23<\/a>: vs. HOU, vs. DET<\/p>\n #11<\/p>\n Record: 37-34<\/p>\n OffRtg: 117.9 (5) DefRtg: 113.8 (15) NetRtg: +4.1 (9) Pace: 98.1 (25)<\/p>\n The Hornets are still in 10th place in the East, but they\u2019ve won five of their last six games<\/a>, are three games over .500 for the first time, and are only 2 1\/2 games behind the fifth-place Raptors.<\/p>\n Three takeaways<\/p>\n The Heat rank sixth defensively for the season, while the Magic rank eighth<\/a> defensively since the All-Star break. The Hornets beat them by 30 and 19 points, respectively, on Tuesday and Thursday, scoring an amazing 129.8 points per 100 possessions<\/a> over the two games. Charlotte has now scored 11.2 more points per 100 possessions than it did last season, which would be the biggest season-to-season jump on offense for any team in the last 21 years.<\/p>\n With their three wins last week coming by an average of 24 points, the Hornets are 37-34 with the point differential (plus-4.1 per game, fifth<\/a> in the East) of a team that\u2019s 46-25. Their 14 wins by at least 20 points<\/a> trail only the Thunder (21), Knicks (16) and Celtics (15) and are nine more than they had over the last three seasons combined (five).<\/p>\n Of the six teams in the No. 5-10 tier in the East, the Hornets have the third-toughest remaining schedule in regard to cumulative opponent winning percentage (.526). Eight of their 11 games are against teams that currently have winning records, with five of those against the Knicks (x 2), Celtics (x 2) and Pistons. They\u2019re 1-4 against the top three teams in the East thus far, though the most recent game was a 29-point win in Boston earlier this month.<\/p>\n Coming up: The Hornets\u2019 only remaining game within the No. 5-10 tier in the East is against the Sixers on Saturday. That game will determine the head-to-head tiebreaker. The home team has won both meetings<\/a> thus far, with the Hornets winning by 37 points in January.<\/p>\n Week 23<\/a>: vs. SAC, vs. NYK, vs. PHI, vs. BOS<\/p>\n #12<\/p>\n Record: 40-32<\/p>\n OffRtg: 113.9 (18) DefRtg: 112.8 (10) NetRtg: +1.1 (15) Pace: 98.0 (26)<\/p>\n The Suns had some pretty brutal finishes as they lost five straight games<\/a> for the first time this season. They also avoided clutch time as they ended the losing streak on Sunday, handing the Raptors one of their worst losses of the season.<\/p>\n Three takeaways<\/p>\n The Suns had fourth-quarter leads of at least seven points in three of the five losses during the streak, but they scored just 25 points on 38 clutch possessions (0.66 per) over the four that were within five in the last five minutes. Devin Booker shot 1-for-9 on clutch shots, also committing five clutch turnovers over the streak. And Rasheer Fleming went 0-for-2 at the line before Victor Wembanyama\u2019s game-winner on Thursday. The Suns are now one of five teams<\/a> that rank in the bottom 10 in both clutch offense and clutch defense.<\/p>\n Fleming was shooting clutch free throws because the Suns have been shorthanded, well beyond the absence (for 15 games now) of Dillon Brooks. Mark Williams has missed the last 11 games and the Suns have had some lineups comprised of only guards and small forwards over that stretch. They\u2019ve managed on the glass, ranking 16th<\/a> in rebounding percentage over the 11 games.<\/p>\n The Suns aren\u2019t quite locked into the No. 7 seed in the West, but they\u2019re close. They\u2019re done playing the three other teams \u2013 the Clippers, Blazers and Warriors \u2013 they might face in the West Play-In, having gone 5-6 (2-3 at home, 3-3 on the road) against them.<\/p>\n Coming up: They still have four games remaining against the top six teams in the West, set to host the Nuggets on Tuesday. They\u2019ve allowed 132.2 points per 100 possessions (their worst mark vs. any opponent<\/a>) as they\u2019ve lost the first two meetings<\/a> with Denver.<\/p>\n Week 23<\/a>: vs. DEN, vs. UTA<\/p>\n #13<\/p>\n Record: 39-31<\/p>\n OffRtg: 114.1 (16) DefRtg: 112.3 (8) NetRtg: +1.8 (12) Pace: 99.2 (22)<\/p>\n The Raptors are 1-2 on their five-game trip, and they got clobbered in Phoenix on Sunday. But they\u2019re still holding onto fifth place in the East, and easier games lie ahead.<\/p>\n Three takeaways<\/p>\n The Raptors scored 122.4 points per 100 possessions over the five games before the loss in Phoenix, their best stretch of offense since (American) Thanksgiving. With some extra pop (including 23 points in Denver on Friday) from Jakob Poeltl, all five of their starters averaged at least 14 points<\/a> over the five games. For the season, the Raptors rank as the league\u2019s third most-improved offensive team, scoring 4.5 more points per 100 possessions than they in 2024-25.<\/p>\n They still need to get stops to get wins. The Raptors are 3-24<\/a> when they\u2019ve allowed more than 117 per 100 after allowing the Nuggets and Suns to score efficiently over the weekend. Their opponents have shot 40% or better from 3-point range in nine of their last 13 games<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Raptors have the easiest remaining schedule in the No. 5-10 tier in the East, with five of their 12 games against teams in the bottom 10 in the league and only against teams that currently have winning records.<\/p>\n Coming up: Their most important remaining game could be Sunday against the Magic, one of three teams that are just a game behind the Raptors in the loss column. That will be for the head-to-head tie-breaker, with both of the previous meetings<\/a> having been within five points in the last five minutes.<\/p>\n Week 23<\/a>: @ UTA, @ LAC, vs. NOP, vs. ORL<\/p>\n #14<\/p>\n Record: 39-32<\/p>\n OffRtg: 114.3 (14) DefRtg: 113.1 (11) NetRtg: +1.2 (14) Pace: 102.8 (2)<\/p>\n The Hawks\u2019 11-game winning streak ended in Houston on Friday, but they won the following night (against the Warriors). Atlanta is in the top six in the East, thanks to the head-to-head tie-breaker<\/a> with the seventh-place Sixers.<\/p>\n Three takeaways<\/p>\n The winning streak started with a weak stretch of schedule, but it also coincided with CJ McCollum replacing Zaccharie Risacher in the starting lineup. The McCollum lineup has now played more than 250 minutes and has outscored opponents by 27.7 points per 100 possessions<\/a>, which would be the best mark for any lineup that played at least 250 minutes in the 19 seasons for which we have play-by-play data. It\u2019s obviously benefited from the weak schedule, but it was also a plus-22 in a little more than 20 minutes<\/a> as the Hawks ended the Magic\u2019s seven-game winning streak last Monday.<\/p>\n The Hawks\u2019 schedule over the last few weeks hasn\u2019t just been soft in regard to the opponents. It\u2019s also been home-heavy, with 10 of the wins on this 12-1 stretch having come at State Farm Arena. (They were 10-16 at home before the streak.) After they host the Grizzlies on Monday, they\u2019ll play six of their final 10 games on the road and eight of the 10 against teams with winning records.<\/p>\n Coming up: The Hawks are 3-6 against the top four teams in the East, but they haven\u2019t played any of them since Jan. 28, when they won in Boston. They\u2019ve still got six games remaining against the top four (all potential playoff previews), including two each against the Celtics and Cavs. One of the Hawks\u2019 worst losses of the season (27 points) came in December in Detroit, and they\u2019re back at Little Caesars Arena on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Week 23<\/a>: vs. MEM, @ DET, @ BOS, vs. SAC<\/p>\n #15<\/p>\n Record: 38-32<\/p>\n OffRtg: 114.1 (17) DefRtg: 113.2 (12) NetRtg: +0.9 (16) Pace: 100.1 (18)<\/p>\n The Magic went from winning seven straight games to losing four straight, sliding from fifth to eighth place in the East.<\/p>\n Three takeaways<\/p>\n After scoring 122.4 points per 100 possessions over the winning streak, the Magic have scored just 109.0 per 100 over the last four games, which have all come against teams \u2013 the Hawks, Thunder, Hornets and Lakers \u2013 that have been playing well. They\u2019ve shot below 35% from 3-point range in five straight games<\/a>, dropping into the bottom five<\/a> from beyond the arc for the season. They lead the league with 43 games of shooting below 35% from deep, they\u2019re 18-25<\/a> in those games, and they\u2019re 20-7<\/a> when they\u2019ve shot 35% or better.<\/p>\n The Magic also struggled on the glass against Atlanta, Oklahoma City and Charlotte, grabbing less than 45% of available rebounds<\/a> over those three games. The overall numbers were better when they lost in the final second on Saturday, but the Lakers\u2019 last four points came on second chances, with a costly Magic turnover in between.<\/p>\n The Magic have been without Franz Wagner for the last 17 games and without Anthony Black for the last seven. Their current starting lineup (with Tristan da Silva) has outscored opponents by 14.1 points per 100 possessions<\/a> over that seven-game stretch, though it got off to a rough start against the Lakers on Saturday. Jevon Carter and the reserves got them back in the game and the Orlando bench ranks third<\/a> since the All-Star break (when Carter was added to the rotation), up from 18th<\/a> prior.<\/p>\n Coming up: The Magic have one of the easier schedules \u2014 in terms of opponent strength \u2014 within the No. 5-10 tier in the East, so they have an opportunity to take back one of those final two guaranteed playoff spots. But they have a league-high three rest-disadvantage games left on their schedule, with the first of the three in Cleveland on Tuesday. They\u2019re 6-3 (3-1 on the road) in rest-disadvantage gams thus far.<\/p>\n Week 23<\/a>: vs. IND, @ CLE, vs. SAC, @ TOR<\/p>\n #16<\/p>\n Record: 38-33<\/p>\n OffRtg: 114.9 (13) DefRtg: 112.1 (6) NetRtg: +2.8 (11) Pace: 104.5 (1)<\/p>\n Just like the Magic, the Heat have followed a seven-game win streak with a four-game losing streak. Their skid has dropped them to ninth place in the East, and they\u2019ve got a relatively tough schedule ahead.<\/p>\n Three takeaways<\/p>\n The Heat have allowed 125.7 points per 100 possessions<\/a> over the losing streak, their worst stretch of defense this season. That\u2019s also up from 108.1 allowed per 100 over the winning streak that preceded it. The last three opponents have all shot better than 40%<\/a> from 3-point range, too. The Heat put the Lakers on the line for 45 free throw attempts on Thursday, and they haven\u2019t been rebounding as well. The Heat are 8-24<\/a> when they\u2019ve allowed more points per 100 possessions than the league average (114.5) and 30-9<\/a> (with nine straight wins) when they\u2019ve allowed fewer.<\/p>\n The Heat are 6-3 without Bam Adebayo, but their game in Charlotte without him on Tuesday was their worst loss of the season. They\u2019ve been 11.1 points per 100 possessions<\/a> better with Adebayo on the floor (plus-7.5) than they\u2019ve been with him off the floor (minus-3.6), easily his biggest on-off differential in his nine seasons in the league.<\/p>\n Andrew Wiggins has missed the last eight games, a stretch that overlapped with a seven-game absence from Norman Powell. What would seemingly be the Heat\u2019s preferred starting lineup \u2013 Davion Mitchell, Tyler Herro, Powell, Wiggins and Adebayo \u2013 has played just 98 total minutes<\/a> over eight games together.<\/p>\n Coming up: Climbing back into the top eight in the East won\u2019t be easy, with eight of the Heat\u2019s 11 remaining games coming against teams with winning records. That includes two games in Cleveland this week, with the Heat and Cavs having split a two-game set<\/a> in Miami back in November.<\/p>\n Week 23<\/a>: vs. SAS, @ CLE, @ CLE, @ IND<\/p>\n #17<\/p>\n Record: 35-36<\/p>\n OffRtg: 116.2 (11) DefRtg: 115.7 (19) NetRtg: +0.5 (17) Pace: 97.2 (28)<\/p>\n A four-game losing streak dropped the Clippers back below .500, but they held onto their spot in the top eight in the West with an overtime win in Dallas on Saturday.<\/p>\n Three takeaways<\/p>\n Two of the four losses came without Kawhi Leonard, who can only miss one more game to remain eligible for All-NBA consideration. The Clippers are now 4-12 without their star and they\u2019ve been 13.0 points per 100 possessions<\/a> better with Leonard on the floor (plus-6.6) than they\u2019ve been with him off the floor (minus-6.4). That\u2019s his largest on-off differential in his six seasons with LA, though it\u2019s been at least 9.9 per 100 in all six.<\/p>\n The Clippers have outscored their opponents by 19.5 per 100<\/a> in Leonard\u2019s 134 minutes alongside Darius Garland, who scored a season-high 41 points in Dallas on Saturday. Garland has shot 35-for-71<\/a> (49%) from 3-point range over his nine games with the Clippers, including 23-for-47<\/a> (49%) on pull-up 3s.<\/p>\n Garland made eight 3s on Saturday after the Clippers (as a team) had made no more than 11 in each of their previous five games<\/a>. They\u2019ve seen the league\u2019s ninth biggest jump in 3-point rate from last season, but still rank 22nd in 3-point differential, having been outscored by 3.3 points per game from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n Coming up: Two pairs of teams haven\u2019t played each other yet this season, and one is the Clippers and Bucks, who will meet twice this week. After their 1-2 trip through New Orleans and Dallas last week, the Clippers are just 15-9 (8-4 at home) against the bottom 10 teams in the league.<\/p>\n Week 23<\/a>: vs. MIL, vs. TOR, @ IND, @ MIL<\/p>\n #18<\/p>\n Record: 39-32<\/p>\n OffRtg: 114.1 (15) DefRtg: 114.6 (16) NetRtg: -0.5 (19) Pace: 100.2 (17)<\/p>\n Tyrese Maxey and Joel Embiid remain out, but the Sixers have managed to win four of their last five games<\/a>. They are somehow just a half-game behind the fifth-place Raptors.<\/p>\n Three takeaways<\/p>\n It\u2019s been a soft stretch of schedule, with the four wins coming against the Nets, Blazers, Kings and Jazz. The Sixers have the worst record (13-27) in games played between the 17 teams currently over .500, with six straight losses (by an average of 21.5 points) against that group. But they\u2019ve won their last seven against teams that are currently below .500, scoring 119 points per 100 possessions, despite the absence of Embiid for six of those games and Maxey for five.<\/p>\n Quentin Grimes and VJ Edgecombe have led the Sixers in scoring<\/a> over Maxey\u2019s eight-game absence, despite shooting a combined 16-for-77<\/a> (21%) from 3-point range. The rest of the team has been only slightly better from beyond the arc, but the Sixers have averaged 61 points in the paint<\/a> (12.8 more than their opponents) over their last 10 games. Grimes has shot 54-for-79 (68%) in the paint over that stretch.<\/p>\n Paul George has just one more game on his 25-game suspension<\/a> and should make his return against the Bulls on Wednesday. At this point, Maxey, George and Embiid have played together in 32 (21%) of a possible 153 games over George\u2019s two seasons in Philly.<\/p>\n Coming up: Seven of the Sixers\u2019 next nine games are against teams with winning records, so they\u2019ll probably need to break that streak of losing to the good teams if they want to remain in the top eight in the East. Maxey and Embiid remain out for their game against the Thunder on Monday.<\/p>\n Week 23<\/a>: vs. OKC, vs. CHI, @ CHA<\/p>\n #19<\/p>\n Record: 35-37<\/p>\n OffRtg: 112.5 (23) DefRtg: 114.8 (17) NetRtg: -2.2 (20) Pace: 101.9 (7)<\/p>\n A three-game winning streak had the Blazers within a game of .500, but their five-game trip ended with a wire-to-wire defeat in Denver on Sunday.<\/p>\n Three takeaways<\/p>\n Before last Monday, the Blazers were one of two teams without a wire-to-wire win, in part because they\u2019ve been at their worst<\/a> (especially defensively) in the first quarters of games. But they never trailed in their wins in Brooklyn and Indiana on Monday and Wednesday and they\u2019ve scored 145 points on 102 possessions (142.2 per 100<\/a>) over their last four first quarters.<\/p>\n Donovan Clingan has scored a team-high 38 points in 34 minutes over those four first quarters and has been making an impact on the other end of the floor as well. Even with the Nuggets having some success inside on Sunday, Blazers opponents have shot just 51.0% in the paint over their last seven games. Opponents have shot just 40-for-92<\/a> (43.5%) at the rim when Clingan has been there since the All-Star break, down from 56.8% before the break<\/a>.<\/p>\n With their wins in Brooklyn and Indiana last week, the Blazers are 15-1 since mid-December against the bottom 10 teams in the league, having scored 120 points per 100 possessions over those 16 games. They\u2019re tied (with Houston) for the most games remaining against the bottom 10, with their six including all four games on a homestand that begins Monday.<\/p>\n Coming up: The Blazers are also tied (with Denver) for the most home-heavy remaining schedule, with seven of their final 10 games at the Moda Center. Their win over the Nets last Monday was just the fourth time<\/a> this season they\u2019ve allowed less than a point per possession, so they\u2019re probably happy to see the league\u2019s 30th-ranked offense again just a week later.<\/p>\n Week 23<\/a>: vs. BKN, vs. MIL, vs. DAL, vs. WAS<\/p>\n #20<\/p>\n Record: 33-38<\/p>\n OffRtg: 113.8 (19) DefRtg: 113.6 (14) NetRtg: +0.2 (18) Pace: 100.3 (16)<\/p>\n The Warriors have completed their slide to 10th place in the West (as far as they\u2019re going to go), having lost eight of their last nine games<\/a>.<\/p>\n Three takeaways<\/p>\n The Warriors rank 28th<\/a> offensively (110.5 points scored per 100 possessions) over this 1-8 stretch. Five of the nine games have come against teams that rank in the top 10 defensively, and their loss to the 11th-ranked Hawks on Saturday was the end of a stretch of five games (all on the road) in seven days.<\/p>\n Kristaps Porzi\u0146\u0123is played five times in a stretch of six games and tied his season high with 30 points (going 13-for-14 from the line) in the Warriors\u2019 win in Washington last Monday. (It\u2019s good to be a big man vs. the Wizards.) But a back issue limited him to less than 11 minutes in Detroit on Friday night and Porzi\u0146\u0123is has still played just 142 total minutes over a possible 19 games since his arrival. Al Horford has also missed the last five games.<\/p>\n The Warriors still have a positive point differential (that of a team that\u2019s 36-35) and they still have a winning record (19-15) at home. They\u2019ve scored 6.6 more points per 100 possessions<\/a> at the Chase Center than they have on the road, the league\u2019s biggest home-road differential on offense. And after their six-game trip concludes in Dallas on Monday, they will have played nine of their last 11 games on the road.<\/p>\n Coming up: After the Dallas game, the Warriors will play seven of their next eight at home. They\u2019re 15-7 against the bottom 10 teams in the league, though just 2-3 since the All-Star break. Games against the Mavs, Nets and Wizards this week are three of their remaining five vs. the bottom 10.<\/p>\n Week 23<\/a>: @ DAL, vs. BKN, vs. WAS, @ DEN<\/p>\n #21<\/p>\n Record: 25-47<\/p>\n OffRtg: 113.4 (21) DefRtg: 117.0 (24) NetRtg: -3.6 (22) Pace: 101.1 (11)<\/p>\n The Pelicans almost went 3-0 in spoiler games last week, but blew a 15-point, fourth-quarter lead on Saturday, allowing the Cavs to score 33 points on their final 18 possessions.<\/p>\n Three notes on the offense<\/p>\n The Pelicans still have a bottom-10 offense, but they\u2019ve seen the fifth biggest jump in points scored per 100 possessions from last season (109.7, 25th<\/a>). They\u2019ve also seen the third biggest jump from before the All-Star break (112.4, 25th<\/a>) to after the break (117, 11th<\/a>).<\/p>\n One reason for the post-break improvement has been the return of Dejounte Murray, and the Pelicans have scored 119.1 points per 100 possessions<\/a> in Murray\u2019s 276 minutes on the floor. He\u2019s shot 41-for-65 (career-best 63%) in the paint and 11-for-16 (69%) from mid-range.<\/p>\n The Pelicans have taken 57% of their shots, the league\u2019s highest rate, in the paint. But they rank 29th in field goal percentage in the paint (55.5%). Jeremiah Fears (49.5% in the paint) and Zion Williamson have each had their shots blocked 72 times, a total that\u2019s tied for seventh<\/a> in the league.<\/p>\n Coming up: The Pelicans\u2019 five post-break wins over teams in playoff or Play-In position have all come at home, and they\u2019ll play seven of their final 10 games on the road. They\u2019re 2-10 in Eastern Conference arenas<\/a>, set to take a three-game trip through New York, Detroit and Toronto this week.<\/p>\n Week 23<\/a>: @ NYK, @ DET, @ TOR, vs. HOU<\/p>\n #22<\/p>\n Record:\u00a028-42<\/p>\n OffRtg:\u00a0112.3 (25)\u00a0DefRtg:\u00a0116.8 (23)\u00a0NetRtg:\u00a0-4.5 (23)\u00a0Pace:\u00a0102.5 (4)<\/p>\n Josh Giddey continues to put up some big numbers (like a career-high 19 assists against Cleveland on Thursday) and the Bulls have a couple of spoiler wins this month. But they\u2019re still just 4-17 since Feb. 1.<\/p>\n Three notes on the offense<\/p>\n The Bulls have scored 2.2 fewer points per 100 possessions than the league average, their worst differential in Billy Donovan\u2019s six seasons as head coach. They weren\u2019t that far off at the trade deadline, but have seen the league\u2019s second-biggest drop in efficiency since the deadline.<\/p>\n According to tracking data, the Bulls rank third in shot quality. Only 4.6% of their shots, the lowest rate for any team in the 30 seasons of shot-location data, have come from mid-range (between the paint and the 3-point line). And 82% of their 3-point attempts, the league\u2019s second-highest rate, have come off the catch.<\/p>\n They lead the league in ball movement (387 passes per 24 minutes of possession) and rank third in player movement (11.7 miles traveled per 24 minutes of possession). This is the second straight season that they\u2019ve ranked in the top five in both.<\/p>\n Coming up:\u00a0The Bulls also have\u00a0their worst road record<\/a> (11-22) in their six seasons under Donovan, and, after hosting the Rockets on Monday, they\u2019ll play eight of their final 11 games on the road.<\/p>\n Week 23<\/a>:\u00a0vs. HOU, @ PHI, @ OKC, @ MEM<\/p>\n #23<\/p>\n Record: 29-41<\/p>\n OffRtg: 112.4 (24) DefRtg: 117.6 (25) NetRtg: -5.1 (25) Pace: 98.3 (24)<\/p>\n The Bucks played spoiler on Saturday, coming back from an early, double-digit deficit in Phoenix. Ryan Rollins led the way with 26 points and Milwaukee improved to 12-22 without Giannis Antetokounmpo.<\/p>\n Three notes on the offense<\/p>\n This will be the first time in the last 10 seasons that the Bucks have had a worse-than-average offense. They had ranked in the top 10 offensively in seven of the last eight seasons.<\/p>\n They\u2019ve actually scored more efficiently in Antetokounmpo\u2019s minutes on the floor (119.4 points scored per 100 possessions<\/a>) and in his minutes off the floor (108.4 per 100) than they did last season (118.9 and 107.9<\/a>). But he went from playing 58% of the team\u2019s minutes in 2024-25 to just 31% in \u201925-26 (to date). And that on-off differential of 11.0 per 100 is the fifth biggest on offense among players who\u2019ve played at least 1,000 minutes for a single team.<\/p>\n The Bucks have gotten only 21.2% of their points, the league\u2019s lowest rate, from fast breaks (11%, third lowest) or second chances (10.2%, lowest). They rank last in both pass-ahead passes per 100 possessions (11.7) and offensive rebounding percentage<\/a> (25.7%).<\/p>\n Coming up: The Bucks are 9-14 against the Western Conference and have a league-high seven interconference games left to play. That includes both of their meetings with the Clippers, with the first at the Intuit Dome on Monday.<\/p>\n Week 23<\/a>: @ LAC, @ POR, vs. SAS, vs. LAC<\/p>\n #24<\/p>\n Record: 23-48<\/p>\n OffRtg: 110.0 (27) DefRtg: 115.0 (18) NetRtg: -5.0 (24) Pace: 102.4 (5)<\/p>\n The Mavs almost beat the Clippers on Saturday, but they\u2019ve won just two of their last 14 games, with their defense having seen a big drop-off since the All-Star break.<\/p>\n Three notes on the offense<\/p>\n According to tracking data, the Mavs rank last in shot quality. They\u2019ve taken just 62% of their *road shots in the restricted area or from 3-point range, the league\u2019s second lowest rate (higher than only that of the Kings) and down from 74% (third highest) last season.<\/p>\n * Measuring only shots on the road to account for shot-tracking discrepancies from arena to arena.<\/p>\n The Mavs have an effective field goal percentage of 64.6% (third best) in the first six seconds of the shot clock, but just 52.9% (25th) thereafter. That\u2019s the league\u2019s biggest drop-off, and they also have its second biggest differential between their field goal percentage in the paint (57.1%, 17th) and their effective field goal percentage on shots from outside the paint (48.2%, 29th).<\/p>\n Cooper Flagg (11.2) is the first rookie in the last seven years to average at least 10 points in the paint<\/a> per game, though his 56.6% shooting in the paint ranks just ninth among the 15 rookies with at least 200 attempts. His true shooting percentage of 54.4% ranks last among the 38 players who\u2019ve averaged at least 20 points in 40 games or more.<\/p>\n Coming up: The Mavs are just 7-21 (with 10 straight losses) against the 10 Western Conference teams in playoff or Play-In position, with the last win (Jan. 22) having come at home against the Warriors. They\u2019ll host Golden State again on Monday, the second of five straight games against the West\u2019s top 10.<\/p>\n
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