The Boston Celtics have clocked in at number two in ESPN's latest NBA Future Power Rankings.
The ranking, designed to predict team's success over the next three seasons, was done by Kevin Pelton and Bobby Marks, and according to the World-Wide Leader, measures:
"a team's current roster and the future potential of those players -- that category accounts for more than 50 percent of each NBA team's overall Future Power Rating. At the same time, we looked at many other factors, such as management, ownership, coaching, a team's spending habits, its cap situation, the reputation of the city and the franchise, and what kind of draft picks we expect the team to have in the future.