KG recognized

Stern should just name the award after Garnett.

Garnett should win that award about 12 more times this season.

The only reason he didn’t win it the first week,was because the C’s started the season later than everyone else.

these “power rankings” are always so absurd. The Celtics are definitely top 2 or 3, but does anyone really think Houston is better than San Antonio? Or that the Lakers are the 9th best team in the league? Right now the Jazz and the Celtics are the scariest teams out of the gate, but San Antonio is basically the same team that won the title, only now with a healthier Duncan, so ranking them below anyone is pretty silly, particularly when they’ve got a 6-1 record.

This is weekly rating and should not take into account last year or the future. How does anyone know how healthy players will be in the future anyway? Celtics are the only team undefeated not really sure why it is silly to rank them #1 right now. In the future? That is what having weekly rankings are for.

I mean future weekly rating mays be different based on what teams do that week.

I can’t take seriously any website that doesn’t rank, at this point in time, the Spurs as the number one NBA team. They’re the defending champs, and didn’t have any major changes to their squad. To rank another team above them, is simply to be pandering to the ignorant.

It is a weekly ranking and the Spurs won last year. Does that mean we should just hand them #1 through this year? Should they just be handed the trophey this year based on winning last year? No because that was last year.

NoraG1 – first of all, to suggest that the weekly rankings are based on nothing more than that week’s performance is patently untrue. If Phoenix goes on a three game skid during a week when Seattle goes 2-1, Phoenix is still going to be ranked higher. If every week was a clean slate from which the league was judged, then every week it would simply be a listing of the teams in order of their records that week. The rankings are subjective and based on the context of the season, the team’s histories, and a general gut sense of where a given team is headed momentum-wise.

Secondly, the Spurs are not only the defending champions, but they are 6-1, which currently ranks them as having the most wins in the NBA. They lost to Houston, which is why I guess these evaluators have ranked the identical record of Houston above theirs, but otherwise they have looked like the best team in the league. No Kidding said it perfectly – “to rank another team above them is simply to be pandering to the ignorant”

I think last year’s has to play a part. I feel the Celts are a sexy pick right now for #1. Realistically though I think they should be #2 behind San Antonio.

This is what grinds my gears about Stein. The Celtics are 5-0 and the only undefeated team left in the NBA. The Spurs are 6-1 and lost to .

and lost to a very good Houston team. Stein feels like he has to do this pretentios “you average NBA fans probably think an undefeated team should be number 1 in my week 2 power ranks. Stupid average joes, the West is so good they will occupy number 1 FOREVER” Shut the hell up Stein. The East isn’t as bad as you think give us our due you herb.
jumps off soapbox

Weekly rankings have one purpose, and one purpose only: to get fans like us to debate them ad nauseum until next week! Relax people. This isn’t the BCS. Rankings mean nothing. It’s the standings that count.

forget weekly rankings…They should have daily rankings…or hourly…this is the 21st Century.

Well, if last year should be taken into account then Celtics would still be near the bottom. This is why last year should be left to ‘last year’

NoraGq, I’ve come back to this blog and find you’re still in a stew about this rankings business. Let’s see if I can help out here.

Imagine that the Celtics, as now constituted, with Garnett, Allen and Pierce, had actually been together for several years. That in fact, they had won three of the last five NBA championships, and were the reigning champs. Imagine further, that they were now totally focused on gaining another title, and had started the season with a respectable 6-1 record.

Now imagine that another team, let’s say the Milwaukee Bucks, had made some surprising trades over the summer and had reshaped itself into an apparent playoff-bound team. And this untested Bucks team had started out the season with a 5-0 record.

Are you telling me you’d be arguing today that this Bucks team should be ranked ahead of our beloved, and reigning NBA champion Celtics? I don’t think you would. Which is why we should all pay due respect to the actual defending champions, the San Antonio Spurs. They’re the best, until somebody else proves otherwise.

Yes, I would if a team is 5-0 they should get #1 until they lose. Spurs won the championship last year does not mean they should be #1 all year because of it. It won’t happen.

Let’s just say that everyone has a different way of thinking about rankings. I don’t have a problem with the Spurs being on top but some like me, also don’t think that it is crazy to have the undefeated Celtics on top either.

I get my rankings from the standings go look at expanded leauge standings, it will list by your percentage of wins/loss’s and so far were are number 1 at 1.000

back to kg. he is the best right now. i can’t compare him to anyone but himself. he’ playing like his mvp year. his intensity is like red cowens’- red was more like auerbach tho. you can see his flame right thru the tv set and it sears your basketball soul.