The Blazers are on top of the Western Conference, the Celtics wouldn't have home-court if the playoffs started today and the Grizzlies are a half-game behind the defending champs, who have just lost three straight! We're a month into the 2018-19 season, and things are ... odd.
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 took out their frustrations from their three-game losing streak -- including an excruciating overtime loss at Boston on Friday -- on a hapless Chicago team on Saturday.