Media Days have been recorded. Training camps have started. Practices are happening twice a day. Teams have jetted halfway across the world and started playing preseason games. With training camps opening up the basketball action, let’s take an initial lay of the land with some Power Rankings action.



Last season, Power Rankings combined the efforts of our NBA writers, finding a composite score to rank all 30 NBA teams with some level of accuracy. At times, we nailed down the exact placement of where these teams should be in the hierarchy of the league. Other times? We found ourselves way off from where the team would eventually settle. Then I’d write a couple of blurbs for the teams, find a GIF I felt was representative of their current state, and watch the comments burn.



This season, we’ll still have a collective ranking from our writers somewhere in here, but this will mostly just be my take on where teams should be placed and why they’re...