While the Golden State Warriors and Houston Rockets continue to separate themselves from the pack in the West, the Oklahoma City Thunder are keeping pace behind an eight-game win streak.
In the East, the Boston Celtics are clinging to a one-game cushion over the Toronto Raptors, while the Cleveland Cavaliers have gathered themselves somewhat with their first set of back-to-back wins since mid-December.
Every week throughout the regular season, our panel (ESPN's Kevin Arnovitz, Amin Elhassan and Ramona Shelburne, The Undefeated's Marc J. Spears and FiveThirtyEight's Chris Herring) will rank the league's 30 teams from top to bottom, with research notes on each team provided by ESPN Stats & Information.