NBA Power Rankings Update: The Orlando Magic Are Making a Push

The Orlando Magic have had the best net rating in the Association since January 31st. Is it too little too late, or do they have a legitimate shot of making the postseason?The NBA standings do not always tell the whole story when it comes to determining which teams are truly playing the best brand of basketball.

Simple win-loss records don't factor in things like strength of schedule, efficiency, average margin of victory, and so on. That's where our power rankings come in.

Using our proprietary metric, nERD -- a ranking on a scale from 0 to 100, with 50 as the league average, which is predictive of a team's ultimate winning percentage based on its efficiency -- we put teams in order of how…