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NBA Power Rankings Update: Never Ever Count Out the San Antonio Spurs

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Teams Ranked 20th to 11th

The Los Angeles Clippers hit a wall, the Charlotte Hornets slide into the middle tier, and literally no one moves up.

RankingTeamRecordnERDLast RankingPlus/Minus
20Houston Rockets16-1548.7200
19Minnesota Timberwolves14-1749.418-1
18Los Angeles Clippers18-1349.713-5
17Portland Trail Blazers18-1349.9170
16Utah Jazz15-1750.0160
15Memphis Grizzlies16-1550.4150
14Sacramento Kings16-1550.5140
13New Orleans Pelicans15-1752.512-1
12Dallas Mavericks15-1552.611-1
11Charlotte Hornets15-1555.18-3


Risers

Not a single team left in the middle tier moved up this week. Last week's 19th-ranked team, the San Antonio Spurs, gained a fair bit of ground, but they actually leapfrogged everyone here to land in the top-10 (more on them when we get there).

Fallers

This time three weeks ago, the Los Angeles Clippers sat at the top of the Western Conference with a record of 15-6, and were the sixth-ranked team in our power rankings. They've fallen off a bit of a cliff since then, however, going 3-7 over the last 10 and posting the league's third-worst net rating of -9.4 over that span in the process. On the plus side, 12 of their next 15 games take place at STAPLES Center (11 home games and a "road" game against the Los Angeles Lakers), so they've got a good opportunity to right the ship just ahead.

The Charlotte Hornets have been a relative fixture in our top-10 this season, despite having had a fairly middling record the entire time. They fall out of the top tier this time around after a 1-2 week, but their eighth-ranked margin of victory of 2.27 continues to keep them firmly on the doorstep.