We made it: Real NBA games are upon us.
No more 14-minute stints for starters (except Joel Embiid...maybe), no more divining meaning from games against Maccabi Haifa or the Shanghai Sharks and, most mercifully of all, no more couching every evaluation with some form of "Hey, but we all know the preseason doesn't matter."*
As an exhibition season farewell, we've compiled one last set of power rankings.
Risers and fallers now get nifty arrow graphics to denote the direction of their momentum since last week, and though there hasn't been much movement, a few injuries and uncertainties have cropped up to nudge teams up or down.
For now, rankings are based on health, performance and roster construction. Soon, though, we'll have wins and losses as the main criteria—which...I mean, finally, right?
*I still get to use it in these rankings, though.
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