Ben Rohrbach

Each week during the 2024-25 NBA season, we will take a deeper dive into some of the league's biggest storylines in an attempt to determine whether trends are based more in fact or fiction moving forward.

BOSTON — Everyone knew the deal. The Cleveland Cavaliers entered Tuesday's game against the reigning champions with a 15-0 record, second-best start to a season ever, and it was an NBA Cup game to boot.

· Senior writer · 8 min read Each week during the 2024-25 NBA season, we will take a deeper dive into some of the

· Senior writer · 1 min read Welcome back to the world's first incontrovertible power rankings, where for free we have sorted the NBA's 30 teams into a perfect order.

Did you speak to any casual NBA fans over Thanksgiving about the NBA Cup? Because I spoke to a lot of them in the Boston area, and even the ones who knew about it could not grasp where the Celtics stood.

Each week during the 2024-25 NBA season, we will take a deeper dive into some of the league's biggest storylines in an attempt to determine whether trends are based more in fact or fiction moving forward.

Welcome back to the Internet's most accurate power rankings, where in this biweekly installment we will sort the NBA Cup's eight-team field of quarterfinalists into so perfect an order it cannot be questioned.

Fact or Fiction: SGA is the best player left in the NBA Cup The NBA Cup field is down to four teams.

The discussion about 'what is wrong with the NBA' reached the mainstream this week.