NBA Bloggers Power Rankings - Week 1

by Basketball John on Nov 4, 2008 9:20 PM MST

This week the fine folks at The Lakers Nation were given the unenviable task of trying to get a bunch of bloggers to vote and then to combine the votes and comments into a meaningful post. Here are the results and my rankings are listed below. Thanks to a couple of quick starts by some Eastern teams, the Jazz somehow drop despite being undefeated without Deron.

Rank	Comments	Nov 3rd
1	Man, I hate this team still.	Lakers
2	Dropped one already. Is the fire dying after getting their rings?	Celtics
3	Three convincing wins	Hornets
4	2-0 without D-Will.	Jazz
5	Scoring a ton and giving up a ton? That's not Piston's basketball.	Pistons
6	Ok, they might be good.	Rockets
7	Dennis Nedry is shaking in his boots	Raptors
8	Crafty veterans	Suns
9	Why do they do this to me every year? They start out crappy and get me thinking that they're finally done. They'll be back. They always come back.	Spurs
10	James and his subjects aren't getting the job done.	Cavaliers
11	Rose is getting it done. Still a bastard.	Bulls
12	<Vader>Impressive</Vader>	Pacers
13	Beat two Eastern contenders pretty handily.	Hawks
14	Great expectations. That book sucked too.	76ers
15	Is there a more meh team right now?	Mavericks
16	Billups to Denver? Bad for the Jazz. Marbury to Denver? Please, please, please.	Nuggets
17	Grizzlies are impervious to magic.	Magic
18	Where's your Oden now?	Blazers
19	How many bandwagon stops are there for the Heat this year? 55?	Heat
20	Beating the teams they're suppose to beat and losing to the teams that are suppose to beat them.	Bucks
21	If you can correctly predict two games in a row for Minny, head to Vegas now.	Timberwolves
22	Getting Arenas back won't even matter.	Wizards
23	Getting Ellis back won't even matter.	Warriors
24	Carter deserves every miserable loss.	Nets
25	1-1. You're not fooling me. You'll be lucky to get one more win this month.	Bobcats
26	I was worried when they won their first game. Then the reality that is NY basketball set in.	Knicks
27	Could easily start out the year 0-9	Clippers
28	You could stuff all your sorries in a Sac and it would still.... Eh, I got nothing.	Kings
29	Could pick up a couple more wins this month.	Grizzlies
30	End the season today and they're in the playoffs.	Thunder

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love the comments

Especially about the Rockets and Spurs. I think those two teams are this year’s story no matter what they do. Rockets Rise or Rockets Bust; Spurs Ride Into Sunset or Spurs Remain Burr in West’s Saddle. The rest of the west is predictable, I think. Those two teams could be spoilers.

Leave the ball, will you George?

by MTN on Nov 4, 2008 11:29 PM MST reply actions

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Loved the Pacers comment, I absolutely loved it haha

keep it up

by Jonny Somers-Harris on Nov 5, 2008 12:57 AM MST reply actions

I know they usually prove people wrong.

But the Spurs are done. They are going to struggle to win 45 games this year and get better than a 6th seed. And Memphis is the most improved team in the league. They play good defense.

The more you try to erase me, the more that I appear.

by clarkpojo on Nov 5, 2008 2:16 AM MST reply actions