NBA Rankings - 5 Jan

The Milwaukee Bucks are still holding down the top spot in the rankings, which they have held for the entire regular season so far, but the rest of the top 10 was shaken up this week, with the Thunder moving up to #2 and Boston to #3. The Heat went 5-2 over the past 2 weeks to move their record to .500, but 4 of those wins were against the worst teams in the league, although the other was against the best team. Toronto, meanwhile, dropped 3 spots after losing 3 different road games by at least 18 points, including one at Orlando, which had no business winning that game. Here are my full current rankings and playoff picks:

				Rec		Proj
TW	LW	Team	Rating	W	L	W	L	MOV	SOS	PO Seed
1	1	Milwaukee	-6.956	27	10	61	21	1	27	E1
2	4	Oklahoma City	-4.866	25	13	54	28	2	25	W2
3	6	Boston	-4.079	23	15	53	29	4	22	E4
4	3	Denver	-3.77	25	11	54	28	6	14	W1
5	2	Toronto	-3.689	28	12	56	26	5	19	E2
6	7	Indiana	-3.604	26	12	54	28	3	29	E3
7	8	Utah	-3.332	19	20	48	34	8	1	W5
8	5	Golden State	-3.108	25	14	51	31	7	18	W3
9	9	San Antonio	-2.749	22	17	48	34	9	10	W4
10	13	Houston	-1.564	22	15	48	34	11	5	W6
11	12	Portland	-1.332	22	17	46	36	17	3	W8
12	14	LA Clippers	-1.209	22	16	47	35	14	6	W7
13	15	Philadelphia	-0.88	25	14	49	33	10	24	E5
14	11	New Orleans	-0.707	17	22	40	42	16	7
15	10	LA Lakers	-0.626	21	18	43	39	13	16
16	18	Dallas	0.026	18	20	40	42	18	11
17	20	Minnesota	0.266	18	21	39	43	19	12
18	22	Miami	0.451	19	18	41	41	12	28	E6
19	19	Sacramento	1.109	19	19	40	42	22	4
20	17	Charlotte	1.152	18	19	39	43	15	30	E7
21	16	Memphis	1.245	18	20	38	44	21	9
22	23	Brooklyn	2.27	19	21	37	45	20	26	E8
23	21	Detroit	3.001	17	19	36	46	23	21
24	24	Orlando	4.22	17	21	34	48	24	20
25	25	Washington	5.428	15	24	30	52	25	23
26	27	New York	7.397	10	29	23	59	26	8
27	26	Phoenix	7.677	9	31	20	62	29	2
28	29	Chicago	8.431	10	29	22	60	27	13
29	30	Atlanta	9.248	11	27	21	61	28	17
30	28	Cleveland	10.1	8	31	17	65	30	15

Playoff Picks

First Round

(1) Bucks over (8) Nets
(2) Raptors over (7) Hornets
(3) Pacers over (6) Heat
(4) Celtics over (5) 76ers
(1) Nuggets over (8) Trail Blazers
(2) Thunder over (7) Clippers
(3) Warriors over (6) Rockets
(5) Jazz over (4) Spurs

Second Round

(1) Bucks over (4) Celtics
(3) Pacers over (2) Raptors
(5) Jazz over (1) Nuggets
(2) Thunder over (3) Warriors

Conference Finals

(1) Bucks over (3) Pacers
(2) Thunder over (5) Jazz

NBA Finals

(1) Bucks over (2) Thunder