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The NBA's 30-team hierarchy is stabilizing after roughly three weeks of play, separating into a trio of distinct categories: a woeful underclass of hapless failures, a select few superpowers and a teeming horde of around 20 middle-class outfits.

Actually, make that four categories. The Golden State Warriors continue to set themselves apart from all the others. But you already knew that.

The best and worst are distinguishing themselves, but there's still a ton of jostling happening in between. And that's where most of the changes from last week's rankings took place.

As a reminder, the primary factors in these rankings include a combination of overall record, recent performance, advanced metrics such as net rating and, of course, a little bit of gut feeling—which is still necessary with only about 15 percent of the season played.

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