The Celtics' Net Efficiency Rating of +6.7 is no longer 5th best in the NBA. With Miami and Cleveland both losing ground last night, Boston saw its league ranking rise dramatically on its day off.
The Celtics are now ranked THIRD best team in the NBA.
Net Rating — sometimes called the "scoring differential" — is the difference between the number of points a team has scored and the number its opponents have scored, per 100 possessions.
Just to be super-clear about this: Net Rating is the gold standard of team performance stats, the one ranking best correlated with ultimate W/L records.