The 2015-16 NBA season concluded with a fever-dream firefight as Kobe Bryant sauntered away, barrels smoking, and the Golden State Warriors lobbed nukes at the record books.
And now, in the wake of all that carnage, it's time to sort these 30 teams out for good.
Some squads survived; others flourished. Still more fell behind early and saw the rest of the league disappear over the horizon.
As has been the case all year, these rankings organize all 30 NBA teams into a hierarchy that reflects their current quality. In the past, recent performance was a key consideration, often trumping overall record and season-long advanced stats. But in this case, the recent sample size is far less instructive than usual; plenty of teams bagged their seasons early, tanking outright or calling it quits more subtly.
So while the final week of the campaign will still count big for some, it'll be a peripheral factor for others.
Here we are at the end. We made it, you guys!
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