The NBA's 70th season starts Tuesday night with your trusty NBA Power Rankings Committee of One now fully immersed in Season No. 14 in charge of ESPN's weekly take on The Association.
And this, of course, is the first of 25 consecutive Mondays that we'll serve up a 1-to-30 ladder pinpointing where teams stand, weighing what's happening in the short term against each team's big-picture outlook ... with the usual dash of unpredictable whim tossed in.
The Golden State Warriors remain in their rightly place as the top team overall, as defending champs always do here, with the Cleveland Cavaliers still ahead of the West's very deep chasing pack at No.