NBA Future Power Rankings - new three-year outlooks for all 30 teams - ESPN

How does your NBA team look heading into the 2025-26 season? What about in 2028?

The NBA Future Power Rankings are ESPN's projection of the on-court success expected for each team over the next three seasons: 2025-26, 2026-27 and 2027-28.

Can the Oklahoma City Thunder become the first team to break an NBA-record streak of eight consecutive seasons with a different champion? How quickly can Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs force their way into the title conversation?

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And what about the Los Angeles Lakers' chances moving forward into the Luka Doncic era of the franchise?

To determine the rankings, we asked ESPN analysts Kevin Pelton, Bobby Marks and Tim Bontemps to rate teams in five categories and rank them relative to the rest of the league. (An explanation of each category and a full view of all 30 teams' ratings is at the bottom of these rankings.)

Here is our latest update ahead of the 2025-26 season, featuring a repeat at No. 1 but lots of movement afterward, including nine franchises seeing their ranking rise (four) or fall (five) by double digits from last year's edition of this exercise.

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

Previous ranking: 1

The question wasn't whether the Thunder would top the rankings but rather how they would rate historically. Based on a championship-winning young core (no starter under age 27) and a top-rated collection of incoming extra draft picks, Oklahoma City has the highest FPR for any team since the Kevin Durant-era