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Assigning grades to NBA teams isn't as simple as scanning up and down a multiple-choice test to see which answers were correct and then calculating a score. Everything has to be relative, as we're most interested with how each of the 30 franchises is faring compared to the expectations that accompanied it heading into the 2014-15 season.

Take the Philadelphia 76ers and San Antonio Spurs, for example.

Both teams are receiving the same grade in our breakdown as we near the midway point of the campaign. But those squads have had massively different seasons, with the Spurs remaining among the Western Conference elite and the Sixers struggling to escape from the bottom of the Association's weaker half.

As you peruse our red-penned efforts to make sense of every team's 2014-15, don't forget about the initial expectations for each of the 30.

If a team is meeting them or coming close, it will receive a "B." If it's performing better or worse, then its grade will correspond accordingly.