This week's NBA power rankings are the most volatile yet, which is the opposite of what you'd expect a month into the season.
Trends are supposed to be stabilizing, with anomalies regressing to the mean. Weird stuff should be getting ironed out as normalcy establishes itself heading into December.
Instead, a lot of good teams—ones we should expect to recover and secure top-10 status eventually—hit the skids. And an equal number of sudden risers, like the New Orleans Pelicans, have thrown last week's rankings into upheaval.
We've got a new No. 1 and a new No. 30, so the chaos wasn't limited to the middle of the pack either.
As always, rankings are influenced by records, advanced stats and current overall health—with an eye toward recent performance. The idea is to organize these teams into an order that reflects their potency right now.
A month in, and things are less stable than ever. That makes it tough on your intrepid ranker, but it sure adds to the intrigue of a season increasingly marked by surprises.
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