Don’t look now, but NBA teams now face a remaining schedule with fewer than 15 games on the docket. To translate, we are in the stretch run in a big way.
Breaking the league into tiers is a fun exercise and, in this space, we are charged with ranking the entire association from 1 to 30. There is a defined tier after the top two, but from that point forward, everything is fluid and, well, the Thunder are charging again. Let’s get to the particulars.