NBA Rankings - 7 Jan

The Warriors have lost a couple games over the past two weeks, but it was not nearly enough to knock them from their perch at the top, even with San Antonio and Houston going a combined 12-1 over the past 2 weeks. Here are my full current rankings and playoff picks. In order to determine projected margin of victory, take the difference between the two teams' ratings and adjust by 2.27 for home court advantage:

				Rec		Proj
TW	LW	Team	Rating	W	L	W	L	PO Seed
1	1	Golden State	-10.3	31	6	67	15	W1
2	3	San Antonio	-8.52	29	7	65	17	W2
3	2	Houston	-7.35	29	9	61	21	W3
4	4	Toronto	-6.82	24	11	60	22	E1
5	5	Cleveland	-5.68	27	8	59	23	E2
6	6	LA Clippers	-4.45	25	14	52	30	W4
7	7	Utah	-3.55	22	15	49	33	W5
8	8	Boston	-2.46	22	14	50	32	E3
9	10	Milwaukee	-1.82	18	17	44	38	E5
10	9	Charlotte	-1.78	20	17	45	37	E4
11	11	Oklahoma City	-1.46	21	16	45	37	W6
12	12	Memphis	-0.94	23	16	45	37	W7
13	13	Detroit	-0.27	17	21	40	42	E7
14	17	Atlanta	0.34	20	16	43	39	E6
15	14	Chicago	0.41	18	18	40	42	E8
16	15	Washington	0.95	17	18	39	43
17	20	Indiana	0.96	19	18	39	43
18	22	Portland	1.58	16	22	36	46	W8
19	16	Minnesota	1.79	11	25	30	52
20	18	Sacramento	1.99	15	21	33	48
21	21	New York	2.02	17	19	37	45
22	19	Denver	2.32	14	22	33	49
23	24	New Orleans	2.6	14	23	31	51
24	25	Dallas	2.91	11	25	30	52
25	27	LA Lakers	3.38	14	26	30	52
26	23	Miami	3.47	11	27	28	54
27	26	Orlando	4.25	16	22	31	51
28	28	Phoenix	4.3	12	25	27	55
29	30	Philadelphia	6.87	9	25	21	60
30	29	Brooklyn	7.06	8	27	21	61

Playoff Picks

First Round

(1) Raptors over (8) Bulls
(2) Cavaliers over (7) Pistons
(3) Celtics over (6) Hawks
(5) Bucks over (4) Hornets
(1) Warriors over (8) Trail Blazers
(2) Spurs over (7) Grizzlies
(3) Rockets over (6) Thunder
(5) Jazz over (4) Clippers

Second Round

(1) Raptors over (5) Bucks
(2) Cavaliers over (3) Celtics
(1) Warriors over (5) Jazz
(3) Rockets over (2) Spurs

Conference Finals

(2) Cavaliers over (1) Raptors
(1) Warriors over (3) Rockets

NBA Finals

(1) Warriors over (2) Cavaliers