NBA Power Rankings: Magic, Warriors On the Rise

NBA Power Rankings: The Orlando Magic, Golden State Warriors headline this weeks NBA power rankings.

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00:00 Well, two big stories in the power rankings this week.

00:03 First up is the Orlando Magic.

00:05 Winners five straight behind a suffocating defense that is

00:09 number one in the NBA during that stretch.

00:12 Now the Magic's offense has been its weakness all season long,

00:16 but they have been top 10 during this winning streak and have

00:19 been efficient with its three-point shooting without

00:22 being a high-volume three-point shooting team.

00:25 Golden State, they continue to move up the rankings.

00:28 The Warriors absorbed a 52-point beating by the Celtics on

00:31 Sunday, but they went 3-1 on this recent East Coast road

00:35 trip, have won 14 of the last 18 games, and just beat Milwaukee

00:41 by 35 points on Wednesday.

00:43 Now the Bucs game was significant because it came with

00:46 the news that Golden State is fully healthy for the first

00:50 time in a long time.

00:52 Andrew Wiggins is back, Chris Paul is healthy, and this team

00:56 is playing its best basketball with all its pieces back.

01:00 So the road may include a trip through the play-in tournament

01:04 for Golden State, but you just can't count this Warriors

01:08 team out yet.

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