NBA Power Rankings: Bucks hold steady, Clippers push for postseason - ESPN

With less than a month left in the 2024-25 NBA regular season, teams are beginning to claim their spots in the postseason, while others will see their campaigns end and get ready for the draft in June.

Only three teams — the Boston Celtics, Cleveland Cavaliers and Oklahoma City Thunder — are officially in the playoffs. Four more teams — the Detroit Pistons, Indiana Pacers, New York Knicks and Milwaukee Bucks — have claimed at least a spot in the play-in tournament. Two teams in the West, the New Orleans Pelicans and Utah Jazz, have already been eliminated from the postseason.

Tensions remain high as we play out the rest of the regular-season schedule, with no clear-cut favorite to take the No. 2 seed in the West and the play-in bracket continuously shuffling in the East.

With fewer than 20 games left in the regular season, it's crunch time. Let's take a look at this week's Power Rankings to see where all 30 teams stand.

Note: Team rankings are based on where members of our panel (ESPN's Tim Bontemps, Jamal Collier, Michael Wright, Tim MacMahon, Dave McMenamin, Ohm Youngmisuk and Chris Herring) think teams belong this season.

Previous rankings: Preseason | Oct. 30 | Nov. 5 | Nov. 13 | Nov. 20 | Nov. 27 | Dec. 4 | Dec. 11 | Dec. 18 | Dec. 25 | Jan. 1 | Jan. 8 | Jan. 15 | Jan. 22 | Jan. 29 | Feb. 5 | Feb. 12 | Feb. 26 | Mar. 5 | Mar. 12

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

1. Cleveland Cavaliers

2024-25 record: 56-12

Previous ranking: 1

Next games: @ SAC (Mar. 19), @ PHX (Mar. 21), @ UTAH (Mar. 23), @ POR (Mar. 25)

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