I turned the board upside down! Boston NBA Power Ranking #1! Dallas' Progress, Golden State, Los Angeles Lakers Fall
Dec 05, 2024
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ESPN, a U.S. sports media outlet, ranked NBA weekly power on the 5th (Korea time).
The media picked Boston as the number one. It is up two places from last week. Boston has a 17-4 record.
ESPN added Christops Porzingis, who returned after offseason surgery. The team has become more solid. Since his return, Porzingis has averaged 19.0 points per game and a 50% field-fighting success rate. It also provided Boston with essential rim protection.
Boston is the strongest team in name and reality, winning the regular league and the final last season. There has been no significant reinforcement this season, but key players are still powerful. Jason Tatum and Jaylon Brown, who have established themselves as the league's best one-two punches. There's Derek White, the pronoun for the powerful lockdown Defender Zru Halladay, multi.
The structure of Boston is extraordinary. Most players can act as the main ball handler. Depending on the response of the opponent's defense, if the first attack fails, it can immediately create a second and third attack. It's very solid.
Second place is Cleveland Cavaliers, the star of the early boom. He is the No. 1 overall winning percentage with 19 wins and 3 losses. It's the team that finished first until last week.
The media praised Cleveland for taking revenge on Boston after losing consecutive games to Atlanta.
The Oklahoma City Thunder (16-5), the Houston Rockets (15-7), and the Memphis Grizzlies (14-8) ranked fifth. In the West, with Oklahoma still strong, the Minnesota Timberwolves, who competed for the top last season, are in a slump. Memphis, which returned to Houston and Jamorant, is at the top of the list as it seeks to take the position.
The Golden State Warriors, who were in third place until last week, fell four notches to seventh, and the Dallas Mavericks, who returned to Luka Doncic, rose 11 notches to eighth.
◇NBA Weekly Power Ranking (ESPN)
Ranking = Team
1 = Boston
2 = Cleveland
3 = Oklahoma
4 = Houston
5 = Memphis
6 = Orlando
7 = Golden State
8 = Dallas
9 = New York
10 = Denver
11=LA Clippers
12=FINIX
13=LA Lakers
14 = Milwaukee
15 = San Antonio
16 = Miami
17 = Minnesota
18 = Atlanta
19 = Indiana
20 = Sacramento
21 = Brooklyn
22 = Detroit
23 = Chicago
24 = Portland
25 = Toronto
26 = Charlotte
27 = Philadelphia
28 = YUTA
29 = New Orleans
30 = Washington
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
