Over a month has passed since we began the NBA season and while there’s still a lot of question marks about which teams will be the cream of the crop and which will slide out of playoff contention, enough games have been played that the picture is slowly starting to get a little clearer.
However, the Northwest Division remains one that is much too close to call. While the Minnesota Timberwolves and Denver Nuggets have fallen behind to sub-.500 records, the top three teams in the division, the Thunder, Jazz and Blazers, all have a .500 record or better and are all within two games of one another.