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It's an NBA Power Rankings Thursday!

Tradition dictates that the stretch run of the regular season cannot start without some 4,000 words' worth of team-by-team musings from The Committee (of One)

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Marc Stein
Feb 19, 2026

Opening Night in October. And then Thanksgiving. And then again on Christmas.

The Committee (of One) duly delivered a fresh helping of NBA Power Rankings on each of those key dates as planned.

The challenge we face every winter is January. Coverage of NBA Trade Season tends to be so all-consuming that the goal we adopted upon launch of The Stein Line to p…

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