Grades for all 30 NBA teams after the 2024-25 regular season - ESPN

With the 2024-25 NBA regular season in the books, it's time for the final report card for all 30 teams. While the 14 teams who have clinched playoff spots and four still fighting for the last two seeds play on, the rest of the league has already turned its attention to the offseason and beyond.

Before the playoffs begin Saturday, let's look back on the regular season to grade all 30 teams, including some high marks for teams that dramatically exceeded expectations. Similarly, there's a couple of teams that had high hopes (and high payrolls) that flunked this season and will now have a lot of work this summer to get back on track.

My grades are strongly influenced by a team's expectations entering the season. The same record that produces an A for a team that looked like an also-ran in September could be a C for another with realistic championship hopes. Beyond wins and losses, I also considered how well teams executed their goals, including developing young talent and securing lottery positioning.

Jump to a grade range:
A's | B's | C's | D's | F's

Jump to a team:
ATL | BOS | BKN | CHA | CHI | CLE
DAL | DEN | DET | GS | HOU | IND
LAC | LAL | MEM | MIA | MIL | MIN
NO | NY | OKC | ORL | PHI | PHX
POR | SAC | SA | TOR | UTA | WAS

Cleveland Cavaliers
Grade: A

After resisting calls to break up their core, the Cavaliers surged to the top of the East standings under new head coach Kenny Atkinson, putting three players in the All-Star Game (Darius Garland, Donovan Mitchell, Evan Mobley) for just the fourth time in franchise history. Now Cleveland will have home-court advantage throughout the East playoffs in pursuit of the team's first conference finals trip not including LeBron James since 1992.

Detroit Pistons
Grade: A

An