This is Phil Ford in the Dunking on Oxford blog and I’m talking to whoever’s listening out there. The NBA season is just two weeks away, and a lot has happened since last season ended just two months ago. Who better to convey where each team stands before the season kicks off than our lord and savior Kurt Russell? So take my advice on a dark and stormy offseason when the trades are crashing and free agency is rolling and the terrible signings are coming down in sheets thick as lead. Just remember what I said when the season starts and the poison takes fall from the Twitter, and the pillars of basketball shake. I look that internet troll right square in the eye and I say “give me your best shot pal, I can take it.”
1.) Los Angeles Lakers
2.) Milwaukee Bucks
3.) Los Angeles Clippers

4.) Miami Heat
5.) Brooklyn Nets
6.) Denver Nuggets
7.) Boston Celtics

8.) Philadelphia 76ers
9.) Dallas Mavericks
10.) Toronto Raptors

11.) Portland Trail Blazers

12.) Utah Jazz
13.) Phoenix Suns

14.) Golden State Warriors

15.) Houston Rockets
16.) New Orleans Pelicans
17.) Washington Wizards

18.) Indiana Pacers

19.) Memphis Grizzlies
20.) Atlanta Hawks
21.) Minnesota Timberwolves
22.) Sacramento Kings

23.) Orlando Magic
24.) Chicago Bulls
25.) San Antonio Spurs
26.) Charlotte Hornets
27.) Detroit Pistons
28.) New York Knicks
29.) Oklahoma City Thunder
30.) Cleveland Cavaliers
Okay. You people sit tight, hold the fort and keep the home fires burning. If these rankings prove to be horribly wrong by the end of the season…call Adam Silver.