A few weeks into the season and we’re starting to get a clearer picture of where teams stand, and at the top of these rankings it is as expected with Oklahoma City and Denver. But then things get interesting.

1. Oklahoma City Thunder

(10-1, last week No. 1)

Why does it feel like the Thunder took a step forward this season, coming off a title? It’s how they approached the season. “Offensively, we’ve tried to look at the season as if we lost in the second round, if we lost Game 7 against Denver. How would we be approaching this?” Thunder coach Mark Daigneault said. “Rather than allowing the fact that we won it to bias us coming in, it was kind of more if we didn’t win it and we fell short, how would we have been looking at this? And we tried to look at it like that. So we’re pushing ourse

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