If you look at the NBA standings right now you’ll notice something kind of weird. You’ll see the top five teams in the Western Conference all with green, positive point differentials — not too weird. And you’ll see a sea of red, negative point differentials from the teams below them — also not weird.
But if you look really, really hard, go full Byakugan and squint at the team just above the thick black line that represents the cut-off for the NBA’s play-in tournament, you’ll notice that San Antonio is currently in 10th place in the West has the fifth-best point differential (+0.