NBA Midseason Grades: Western Conference

We’ve practically reached the halfway point of the regular season, with numerous teams at or around the 41-game mark. This checkpoint is a perfect time to hand out grades for the NBA, starting today with the Western Conference. (My colleague Jeremy Woo will handle the East.) Professor Ro’s criteria for grades is mostly based on performance compared to my preseason expectations, with some exceptions made for extreme cases (basically teams dealing with particularly punitive injuries.) If you have any problems with the methodology, unfortunately these grades are final and written in stone on every team’s permanent record. Let’s go.

Warriors: C+

I’m not going to kill the Warriors for what was…