Following a Thanksgiving hiatus, NBA power rankings return—this time with a whole lot more Paul George and an appropriate portion of praise for Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors.
You may have heard: They've been pretty good lately.
The big story in this batch is the growing number of elite and hopeless teams, which is a significant change from the last edition, when it felt as though the NBA's middle class was expanding to an unsustainable size. Supporters of a stratified NBA will be happy about some of those middling squads moving more toward the extremes.
That's what George's Indiana Pacers did, for example.
As always, rankings are based on overall performance with an eye toward recent trends. And there's always room for some gut feeling, though we do our best to let the numbers run the show.
Rank on!
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