Thanks to their win over the Golden State Warriors, the Detroit Pistons have now won five straight games and are the East's hottest team outside of the Toronto Raptors.
Meanwhile, out West, things are getting even more complex with the LA Clippers and Denver Nuggets atop the standings, the defending champs in fourth and 14 teams separated by just five games (sorry, Phoenix).
Throughout the regular season, 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 teams are playing the best basketball now and which are looking most like title contenders.