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NBA Power Rankings: Small Ball Coming up Big?

The Houston Rockets are using a small ball lineup to take down teams like the Utah Jazz. Did that lead to a bump in our rankings?

With nearly three-quarters of the 2019-20 NBA regular season in the books, it's time to take a look at numberFire's power rankings.

Teams will be ranked in terms of nERD, which is our efficiency metric based on in-game data. These ratings allow us to understand which teams and players are performing best. nERD is indicative of a team's expected winning percentage, so an average team will have a nERD score of 50.