Power rankings are a bit difficult nowadays as we’ve noted. Instead of all coming out on Monday morning, they’re spread out over days. So we wait now until Tuesday now to post them.
But this week, there are some highlights, starting with a special appearance by Marc Stein, who for years did the weekly power rankings for ESPN. He’s now at the New York Times and for old times’ sake, he did a one-time mid-season report. He did have the best line of the week to describe the Nets, “They play so annoyingly hard.