I just realized this after looking at the ESPN NBA home page: The top four teams in that ranking all have two things in common - they're in the West, and... Their best players are dominant big men, not guards. Throws even further doubt on the notion that today's NBA is a swingman's league and that the era of dominant big men is over.
that's great and all but i could still care less where espn, cnnsi, and nba.com place us in their arbitrary and meaningless "power polls." let's just keep winning and that will make me much more happier than being marc stein's flavor of the week.