There is less than one month until Christmas Day in the NBA, and two Finals contenders -- the Boston Celtics and Houston Rockets -- are stuck at .500, while surprise teams such as the Memphis Grizzlies and first-place LA Clippers are sitting in the upper tier in the West. Which starts are for real?
Throughout the regular season, our panel (ESPN's Kevin Arnovitz, Tim MacMahon and Andre Snellings, The Undefeated's Marc J. Spears and FiveThirtyEight's Chris Herring) ranks the league's 30 teams from top to bottom.
The Raptors had four games in which they were heavy favorites on the schedule this week, and they picked up four wins, making them the only undefeated team in the association in that stretch.