We’re back! Power Rankings! Everybody loves them. Until everybody hates them because their team isn’t ranked properly. The beauty of Power Rankings is they give you a chance to overreact to the present while still holding onto a long view of the regular season and title contention, overall. Last season, The Athletic’s NBA staff ranked its individual rankings for teams each week; we’d average that out to a composite ranking, and then I’d write the blurbs for those teams each week.



This season, it’s all me. If you have a complaint about a ranking, there is no passing it off as the aggregate of dozens of writers and experts. If your team is way too low in your mind, you get to harass me on Twitter or in the comments section here. It will only be me to blame. I’m ranking them all season long and then I’m writing whatever I find is interesting to me about that team.



In the early stages of the Power Rankings, it will be less...