The Lakers continue to roll on as the Celtics, Magic and Cavs try to catch up.
The Hawks remains on at the number 4 spot and looking to move up as Christmas day games will see some of the big 3 fall.
Here’s the complete list;
| 2009-10 Power Rankings: Week 10 | ||||
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1 (2) | Lakers | 22-4 | Did someone say good week? Kobe can’t stop scoring with that broken finger, Pau suddenly has a contract extension even before Kobe does and the Lakers quietly completed their long-awaited first road trip at 4-1. |
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2 (1) | Celtics | 21-5 | This is probably just a coincidence: Boston is 3-4 on Fridays and 17-1 on all other days. This appears to be a legit problem: Rasheed and Perkins have racked up 10 and seven techs already. Suspensions start at 16 T’s. |
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3 (3) | Magic | 20-7 | The good news: Jameer is closing in on reactivation. The bad news: Orlando has to deal with two teams that know how to make you work (Utah and Houston) before the big Christmas Day showdown with Boston. |
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4 (4) | Hawks | 19-7 | Impressive as they’ve been this month, establishing themselves as a top-5 fixture, Atlanta’s uber-athletes could easily be 9-0 in December if not for leads blown Saturday in Chicago and that bad home L to the Knicks. |
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5 (8) | Mavericks | 20-8 | Looking at the Southwest, especially Memphis and the other last-place clubs, Rick Adelman paid a real tribute to the Mavs with this: “They’re the best team in our division and they’re up there in the conference.” |
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6 (9) | Suns | 18-9 | Two more plus points for the only team in the league that hasn’t lost a home game: Amare is starting to get some pop back (three straight 20/10 games) and a league-high 17 road games are in the rearview mirror. |
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7 (5) | Cavaliers | 20-8 | The Cavs haven’t been higher than No. 4 and it’s tough to see that changing in the near future. But count on them to stay at or near the top of the rumor rankings, because they’re looking for trade upgrades. Hard. |
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8 (6) | Nuggets | 19-9 | Didn’t take long, did it? For all of Melo’s brilliance — he just uncorked his fifth 40-point game of the season — Denver’s first two games without the injured Billups stand as reminders of how much he impacts for this crew. |
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9 (10) | Rockets | 16-11 | Only one team out West (Phoenix) has played more roadies than the Rockets. And Houston gets to make an extra trip to Dallas if the league upholds the Mavs’ protest because it already made its two trips to Big D. |
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10 (13) | Trail Blazers | 17-12 | The way Bayless played against Phoenix on TNT helps explain why the Blazers are reluctant to trade him. Less clear after a performance like that is why they’ve been so reluctant to throw him out there more with B-Roy. |
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11 (7) | Jazz | 16-11 | We’re going to pretend we didn’t see the Jazz respond to their Team of the Week nod by losing at home to Minnesota and focus on D-Will’s league-leading eight 20-point/10-assist games … five of them just since Dec. 10. |
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12 (11) | Spurs | 14-10 | For all the fretting about Jefferson’s slow start and the underwhelming 3-6 record on the road, there’s this Spurs counter: Duncan is quietly rolling again, churning out an efficient 20 and 11 in a career-low 32.1 mpg. |
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13 (14) | Hornets | 12-14 | Even though he just missed on a triple-double, CP3′s 30 points, 19 assists and nine boards against Denver make for a historic line. No one has hit those levels in the same game since Magic Johnson and Fat Lever in 1988. |
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14 (16) | Grizzlies | 12-15 | Division leaders Cleveland, Dallas and now Denver are all Grizz victims, but I still can’t seem to stop myself from wondering what we’d be saying if they had drafted a local collegian named Tyreke Evans over Thabeet. |
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15 (12) | Thunder | 13-13 | The shocker is not that the Thunder are a helpless 0-5 when their franchise player is held below 20 points. The shocker is that we just saw it happen twice to young Durant in Oklahoma City’s most recent three games. |
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16 (17) | Heat | 13-12 | Does Riles still got it? After he challenged everyone on the roster, including D-Wade, Miami trounced Orlando by 18 on TNT. But the Heat need a win Wednesday over Utah just to break even on this six-game homestand. |
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17 (19) | Kings | 12-14 | One of my best Hanukkah presents: Casspi has been so good that it’s totally natural to talk about him all the time. Tyreke has been a certifiable stud … but my guy’s coming to Dallas for the Rookie Game, too. |
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18 (18) | Knicks | 10-17 | We’ve all been so wrapped up in the Nate Robinson drama that we almost missed Mike D’Antoni’s Knicks — we repeat: Mike D’Antoni’s Knicks — holding seven straight foes below 100 points in their 7-3 December. |
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19 (20) | Raptors | 13-17 | At least one thing is going according to plan for the Raps: Bosh has racked up a league-leading 13 games with at least 25 points and 10 boards. That’s six more than his closest pursuer: New Jersey’s Brook Lopez. |
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20 (15) | Pistons | 11-16 | Can’t sum up life with the Pistons these days any better than the AP did after Sunday’s lesson from the Lakers. “Three of Detroit’s best players wore sport coats: Richard Hamilton, Ben Gordon and Tayshaun Prince.” |
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21 (23) | Clippers | 12-14 | Just three times all season have teams failed to hold a 20-point lead … with the Clips involved every time. They beat Memphis that way Nov. 29 and lost that way Nov. 13 against Toronto and again Friday in New York. |
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22 (21) | Bucks | 11-14 | Brandon Jennings’ recent perimeter struggles don’t worry the Bucks. Nor does the fact that ‘Reke got the better of the rooks’ first duel. The real crusher is that 1-8 record in games decided by three points or fewer. |
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23 (26) | Bulls | 10-15 | The first Bulls winning streak since mid-November — two wins in a row after they followed up a big rally in New York with an OT home W over surging Atlanta — should bring Del Negro his first sense of relief in weeks. |
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24 (22) | Bobcats | 10-16 | The Bobcats treasure the do-everything versatility of G-Wallace. But responding to a quiet game on the boards for Diaw and Chandler with a quote about heart is presumably not something they wanted him to do. |
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25 (24) | Pacers | 9-16 | The ever-reliable Brian Windhorst reports that Troy Murphy is one of three PFs high on the Cavs’ trade radar. We figured that Pacer People would rather ponder that than the team’s recent Granger-less fortunes. |
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26 (29) | 76ers | 7-20 | The Sixers can (probably) live with the loss to the Clips and A.I.’s injury because last week was their best week in ages, thanks to the returns of Lou Williams and Speights and a win in Boston no one saw coming. |
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27 (25) | Wizards | 8-17 | The record-tying run of six consecutive defeats by four points or fewer is finally over. The leaguewide circling of buzzards waiting to see whether the Wiz finally bust up their Arenas-Butler-Jamison core trio only grows. |
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28 (27) | Warriors | 7-19 | This is the month teams down here started consoling themselves with the same two-word draft prayer: John Wall. Even teams like the Warriors, who are awash in guards with Monta and Steph Curry and need a big. |
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29 (30) | Timberwolves | 5-23 | We’d like to think that demoting the Wolves to No. 30 was the inspiration for that stunning win at Utah. We’d also like to explain how the Wolves now have huge divisional road wins at Denver and Utah. But we can’t. |
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30 (28) | Nets | 2-26 | More unwanted milestones: New Jersey is just the seventh team in history to rack up 25 losses in 27 games after Friday’s defeat in Toronto. The last to do so was New Orleans, which also started 2-25 in 2004-05. |
