Here we are: the final three days of the 2018-19 regular season. With 15 playoff tickets punched, which East squad -- the Detroit Pistons, Miami Heat or Charlotte Hornets -- will be the final team in the tournament?
Our panel (ESPN's Kevin Arnovitz, Tim MacMahon and Andre' Snellings, The Undefeated's Marc J. Spears and FiveThirtyEight's Chris Herring) is ranking all 30 teams from top to bottom, taking stock of which are playing the best basketball and which are looking most like title contenders.
Giannis Antetokounmpo put an exclamation point on his season, logging a 45-point, 13-rebound, six-assist, five-block stat line in a shining, MVP-level performance that led Milwaukee to victory over the Sixers on Thursday.