NBA Power Ratings And Playoff Odds: The Thunder And Suns Are In A Dogfight

Welcome to another edition of FiveThirtyEight’s NBA Power Ratings. Teams are ranked according to a projection of their strength over the coming week using Real Plus-Minus (RPM) player ratings provided by Jeremias Engelmann and Steve Ilardi. For a more detailed explanation of the process behind these numbers, see our first rankings post.

Some stray thoughts on the rankings: