NBA power rankings for end of regular season

By Rick Morris

NOTES: Rankings from start of season are in parentheses.

TOP TIER

1 Houston (3-3-3-3-2-1-1-1)

2 Golden State (1-1-1-1-1-2-2-2)

3 Cleveland (5-2-4-6-11-3-4-6)

SECOND TIER

4 Toronto (9-7-6-5-3-4-3-3)

5 Portland (13-8-13-13-10-11-6-5)

6 Philadelphia (15-10-17-17-17-14-11-13)

7 Utah (19-13-20-23-19-16-13-10)

8 New Orleans (12-15-15-14-15-17-8-8)

9 Milwaukee (16-11-14-15-8-7-15-18)

10 Oklahoma City (18-19-10-11-9-13-7-7)

11 Indiana (22-16-18-18-13-8-10-9)

12 Washington (8-12-9-9-7-6-14-15)

13 San Antonio (6-5-5-4-5-9-17-17)

14 Boston (2-4-2-2-4-5-5-4)

15 Miami (20-18-11-8-14-19-20-14)

16 Denver (10-9-12-12-12-10-9-11)

17 Minnesota (7-14-7-7-6-12-16-16)

18 Detroit (4-6-8-10-18-18-21-21)

THIRD TIER

19 Charlotte (23-22-24-24-20-21-19-20)

20 LA Clippers (24-23-19-16-16-15-12-12)

21 LA Lakers (21-21-29-27-21-20-18-19)

FOURTH TIER

22 New York (17-17-16-22-22-25-26-27)

23 Chicago (27-30-21-21-24-26-25-23)

24 Brooklyn (26-25-25-25-26-27-28-28)

25 Sacramento (28-26-26-28-30-24-24-22)

26 Orlando (11-20-28-29-28-22-22-25)

27 Atlanta (30-28-30-30-29-23-23-26)

28 Dallas (29-29-23-20-27-29-27-24)

29 Memphis (14-27-27-26-23-28-30-30)

30 Phoenix (25-24-22-19-25-30-29-29)

BIGGEST RISERS: Milwaukee (9 spots), Philadelphia (7 spots), New York (5 spots), Brooklyn and San Antonio (4 spots), Cleveland, Detroit, Utah and Washington (3 spots)

BIGGEST FALLERS: Boston (10 spots), LA Clippers (8 spots), Denver (5 spots), Dallas (4 spots), Oklahoma City and Sacramento (3 spots)

RANKINGS BY CONFERENCE – 1 POINT PER RANKING SPOT FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL TEAM, LOWEST SCORE IS BEST

1 WEST 232

2 EAST 233