NBA Power Rankings: Checking in on all 30 teams with a month left - ESPN

The NBA season is dwindling down but the matchups are heating up, including the Miami Heat's Bam Adebayo scoring 83 points — the second most in a game in NBA history — on Tuesday.

The Oklahoma City Thunder, coming off a convincing win over the Denver Nuggets on Monday night, and the San Antonio Spurs continue to rule the Western Conference, while the Boston Celtics, following Jayson Tatum's return, are eyeing a move up the Eastern Conference.

The Detroit Pistons' recent struggles have cast some doubts on their hold on the East, while the Western Conference standings, outside of the top two, continue to fluctuate daily as teams jockey for position ahead of next month's playoffs.

With a little over a month to go ahead of the play-in tournament, here are this week's NBA Power Rankings.

Note: Team rankings are based on where members of our panel (ESPN's Anthony Slater, Dave McMenamin, Jamal Collier, Michael C. Wright, Bobby Marks, Tim Bontemps, Tim MacMahon, Vincent Goodwill and Zach Kram) think teams belong.

Previous rankings: Preseason | Oct. 29 | Nov. 5 | Nov. 12 | Nov. 19 | Nov. 26 | Dec. 3 | Dec. 10 | Dec. 17 | Dec. 24 | Dec. 31 | Jan. 7 | Jan. 14 | Jan. 21 | Jan. 28 | Feb. 4 | Feb. 11 | Feb. 24 | March 4

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 | UTAH | WAS

2025-26 record: 51-15

Previous ranking: 1

Next games: vs. BOS (March 12), vs. MIN (March 15), @ ORL (March 17)

The return of Ajay Mitchell was lost in the Shai Gilgeous-Alexander fireworks show on Monday night against the Nuggets.

Mitchell had missed 20 games because of both oblique and ankle injuries, but looked every bit himself in 29