Tracking the Power Rankings

[scott]

Update for the week of 11/17:

ESPN: 11 (down from 6)
NBA.com: 9 (down from 7)
CBS: 6 (down from 3)

 

[jeebus]

ESPN: 11 (down from 6)

They can't help themselves.

 

[SpurSpike]

Espn has the Hawks over the Spurs in the power rankings. Spurs just beat them with our bench and Fox!

 

[Exstatic]

Espn has the Hawks over the Spurs in the power rankings. Spurs just beat them with our bench and Fox!

They play an exciting,but unsustainable brand of ball, forcing turnovers, and running out off of them. Two things teams like that hate: being slowed down, and being run back at.

 

[LeBowen]

It's great that we're taking care of business against teams we're supposed to beat, one way or another.
But when Wemby returns we'll need some more wins against serious teams, going 1-4 against the Rockets, Lakers and Warriors is disappointing considering we were close in all those games.
I guess it will come with experience, but I don't think it's too optimistic to say that we could be better than all of them by the end of the season if everyone is healthy and no more injuries happen.
Mitch will have to win a couple of close games against top contenders with his adjustments, the jury is still out on him.

 

[NotoriousHOP]

NBC Sports dropped us to 9 in relation to betting (in the link)? No mention of where we were at before.

2025-26 NBA Power Rankings: Timberwolves, Raptors, Rockets, and Pistons rise up, Bucks and Heat drop down

Vaughn Dalzell breaks down his NBA Power Rankings for Week 5.

www.nbcsports.com

 

[scott]

Week of 11/24

NBA.com: 8 (up from 9)
NBC Sports: 11, unchanged... but they also have our record wrong at 11-6 instead of 11-5
ESPN: 12, down from 11
CBS: 8, down from 6

 

[scott]

12/1

NBA.com: Holding at 8 https://www.nba.com/news/power-rank...ETTER:THE_ZONE:&lctg=6014471f70ce7b2662d3e2ff
NBC Sports: Holding at 11 https://www.nbcsports.com/nba/news/...sing-thunder-with-rockets-lakers-in-top-three
ESPN: 8 up from 12: https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id...western-conference-thunder-december-dominance
CBS: 6 up from 8: https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/nba-power-rankings-lakers-top-three-clippers-chris-paul-move/
USA Today: 7 (up from 8): https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...-rankings-thunder-lakers-pistons/87553350007/

 

[Quentin_Compson]

ESPN has the Spurs rise to 8 (from 12).

 

[scott]

12/8

NBA.com: 9 (down from 8) - https://www.nba.com/news/power-rank...ETTER:THE_ZONE:&lctg=6014471f70ce7b2662d3e2ff
NBC Sports: 10 (up from 11) - https://www.nbcsports.com/nba/news/...ng-pistons-and-knicks-move-up-to-second-third
ESPN: 8 (unchanged) - https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/47256507/nba-power-rankings-team-biggest-weakness
CBS: 8 (down from 6) - https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/nba-power-rankings-celtics-no-2-knicks-top-five/
USA Today: 9 (down from 7) - https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2025/12/09/nba-power-rankings-week-7/87676800007/

Media is glazing Boston too much, at LOL @ having the Magic over us in the NBC Sport rankings. A team we beat (without Wemby or Castle, they were missing Paolo) who is in a worst conference with a worse record.

I'd take us in a 7 game series against ORL 10 times out of 10.

 

[scott]

This week's rankings updated.

 

[NotoriousHOP]

Dumb pass.

 

[scott]

Any predictions on where we’ll be on Monday? I could see some publications putting us as high as 2.

 

[NASpurs]

Power Rankings, Week 9: Rockets, Pistons and Knicks move up

Detroit, New York and Houston climb as Boston and the L.A. Lakers fall in the Top 10 of this week's Power Rankings.

www.nba.com

#6

San Antonio Spurs
Last Week: 9 ↑
Record: 18-7

OffRtg: 118.0 (7) DefRtg: 113.8 (14) NetRtg: +4.2 (8) Pace: 100.9 (16)

The Spurs went 9-3 during Victor Wembanyama’s absence, but they’re in the Emirates NBA Cup final because he was back in uniform on Saturday and helping them put an end to the Thunder’s 16-game winning streak.

Three takeaways

• The win on Saturday was the Spurs’ worst offensive game of the season (111 points on 106 possessions), but it was also the Thunder’s worst (109 on 107). Oklahoma City scored just 40 points on 48 possessions (shooting 4-for-13 in the paint) in Wembanyama’s 21 minutes on the floor. The Spurs have now allowed 110.7 per 100 in the 13 games he’s played and just 104.3 per 100 in his 437 minutes on the floor.
• The Lakers lead the league in free-throw differential, but the Spurs handed them their worst differential (29-17) of the season on Wednesday. San Antonio has seen the league’s third biggest jump in free throw rate from last season, with Wembanyama (from 22.1 to 41.4 attempts per 100 shots from the field) and Stephon Castle (from 34.8 to 52.0 per 100) having seen the third and seventh biggest jumps among 120 players with at least 200 field goal attempts in each of the last two seasons.
• Their three games last week were the first three games in which the Spurs had Castle, De’Aaron Fox and Dylan Harper all in uniform. They haven’t had all three on the floor together, but each player has had their moments. Harper (on the floor instead of Castle) had the game-winning bucket in New Orleans, Castle scored an efficient 30 points (while also guarding Luka Dončić) in L.A., and Fox had the first six points on the critical, 13-0 run to close the first half against the Thunder.

Coming up: The Cup final will come against an even better offense than that of the Thunder, and the Knicks are more of a jump-shooting team than Oklahoma City. But Wembanyama’s presence in the paint should help the Spurs defend the 3-point line better, with the corners being particularly important on Tuesday. The Knicks’ 5 corner 3s per game would be the most for any team in the 47-year history of the 3-point line, and they were 8-for-15 from the corners in their Christmas win over the Spurs (the last game Wembanyama played vs. New York) last year.

Week 9: vs. NYK*, vs. WAS, @ ATL, @ WAS

 

[SpurSpike]

Highest iv seen is Clutchpoints which has us at #4. Some of the others still have the Lakers over us, lol.

 

[scott]

12/15
NBA.com: 6 (up from 9): https://www.nba.com/news/power-rankings-2025-26-week-9
NBC Sports: 8 (up from 10): https://www.nbcsports.com/nba/news/...knicks-climb-to-second-as-trade-talks-heat-up
ESPN:
CBS:
USA Today: 3 (up from 9): https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2025/12/15/nba-power-rankings-spurs-thunder/87770838007/

LOL @ NBC Sports. Who in their right mind would have the Celtics over us right now? Keep underestimating us, Media.

USA Today with the biggest jump after beating LAL and OKC

 

[WFO]

Anywhere from 3-12 feels about right. More of me not knowing the league well these days. If we split the next two against okc the media will crown our asses so who cares.