There is a lot of average basketball played in the NBA regular season. Don’t get me wrong: the average for this league is pretty good. But 11 teams are two games away from .500.
You wonder who is winning. The Minnesota Timberwolves are about as average as you can get. No Jimmy Butler. No, Ja Morant. Not Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving. Everyone on the Orlando Magic is injured. The Phoenix Suns, Milwaukee Bucks and Philadelphia 76ers can’t decide if they want to be good or not. LeBron James is 40 years old. Even the Boston Celtics are falling.
There are only a handful of really good teams, if any, and two incredible ones. The Cleveland Cavaliers and Oklahoma City Thunder are on pace to win 73 and 70 games, respectively, and will meet for the first time this season on Wednesday night (7 p.m. ET, ESPN).
But we will talk about them later. First from the bottom, the most powerful rankings on the Internet…
