NBA Power Rankings (Mar. 29)

2010 NBA Hoops Power Ratings

Each week during the heart of the NBA season, and once or twice during the NBA Preseason, we’ll gather the troops around the roundtable and hash out the NBA Power rankings. We check out the stats, looks at the records, and, most importantly, we take a close, close look at the heart of each team. We encourage you to come back each week and see how the nba Power Rankings have changed.

NBA Power Rankings will be updated by Friday every week. Be sure to visit our home page for more articles and NBA analysis.

Its with this knowledge that we can then deliver to you The NBA WEEKLY Power Rankings!

Power Rankings

NBA Power Rankings
This Week	Last Week		Comment
1	1	Cleveland Cavaliers	Ilgauskas’s return highlights an unfair rule that the league needs to change
2	2	Los Angeles Lakers	Jackson says he might quit if the Lakers don’t win the title. Right.
3	3	Orlando Magic	Holding Denver to 11 free throw attempts may be most amazing stat of the season
4	5	Dallas Mavericks	6 of Mavs’ final 9 games are against teams jocking for playoff positioning
5	7	Utah Jazz	Prediction: Jazz will win  the division
6	6	Atlanta Hawks	7-2 ATS in last 9
7	4	Phoenix Suns	They’re a much better team without Shaq
8	8	Denver Nuggets	Limping to the finaih line — bad omen for playoffs
9	9	Boston Celtics	Loafing Rasheed Wallace is stealing a paycheck
10	11	Portland Trail Blazers	No team has overcome injuries as well as the Blazers have
11	10	Oklahoma City Thunder	Westbrook most underrated player in the league
12	13	San Antonio Spurs	Victory over Celtics was Boston’s worst home loss of the season
13	12	Milwaukee Bucks	Losses to Philly and Miami took some of the shine off Bucks’ second-half surge
14	15	Miami Heat	Heat finishing strong due to improved defensive play
15	14	Memphis Grizzlies	Zach Randolph most consistent player all year — what are the odds on that?
16	16	Charlotte Bobcats	Two full years as head coach. That’s an eternity for Larry Brown
17	18	New Orleans Hornets	Brutal month for Hornets — they lost 10 of 11 on road and 14 of 18 overall
18	17	Toronto Raptors	Raptors are fed up with Hedo Turkoglu
19	20	Chicago Bulls	Bulls are competitive again with Noah in the middle
20	19	Houston Rockets	Yao Mng scheduled to begin workouts in July
21	24	Philadelphia 76ers	Sixers starting to play better now that the season is in garbagetime phase
22	21	New York Knicks	Bill Walker, throw-in in the Nate Robinson deal, showing some talent
23	23	Indiana Pacers	Roy Hibbert looks out of place on this team
24	25	Sacramento Kings	Kings need to make moves to build up the back end of the roster
25	22	Los Angeles Clippers	Clippers would be better off with Steve Blake at the point
26	26	Detroit Pistons	These guys checked out mentally about a month ago
27	28	Golden State Warriors	If Nelson leaves, there has to be a job for him in the league somewhere
28	29	Minnesota Timberwolves	Hard to believe their last win was 37 days ago
29	30	New Jersey Nets	Give them credit for playing hard, unlike the Clippers and Pistons
30	27	Washington Wizards	Just a guess that Arenas will not be on Wizards’ when next season opens

X–Team with the best chance of cracking Top 20
next week
Y–Team with the best chance of falling out of the Top 20

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Lawrence Paul is a regular contributor to the Cappers Picks Blog, and is a free-lance gambling and travel expert from Massachusetts.