The stretch run of the 2015-2016 NBA season is here and, with that, many teams in the league are simply playing out the string. That makes for “interesting” match-ups at the tail end of any season, but on the bright side, the best of the best are playing for playoff positioning, while the league’s bottom dwellers are looking to add ping-pong balls for the draft lottery.
Story lines are aplenty and they provide the backdrop for this week’s edition of NBA power rankings. Let’s roll through this thing.