Though "Golden State Warriors Shame 29 Other NBA Teams Into Quitting" was a finalist for the title of this week's power rankings, it's probably best we went with the quarter-pole angle.
That's right, we're already through 25 percent of the 2015-16 campaign, and a few solid certainties have emerged—some since the last edition.
For starters, Stephen Curry's Dubs continue to stay solar-flare scorching, and everyone else is sweating and straining to absorb just a tiny bit of their reflected heat. Two competitors from the West come closest, but no eclipse appears imminent.
In the East, the hierarchy is nowhere near as defined.
The top seven squads are practically interchangeable, and stratifying them takes number-crunching, head-to-head comparisons and, yeah, I'll say it: some blind gut instincts.
As always, rankings are based on overall performance with an eye toward recent trends.
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2015-16 NBA Power Rankings at the Quarter Mark of the Season
December 10th, 2015 by Grant Hughes Leave a reply »
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