Welcome back to another installment of HoopsHype’s power rankings! Last time, we performed a quick pulse check on a star for each team. This week, we’ll make New Year’s resolutions for each squad. What should teams be doing when the calendar flips to 2025?

Note: I’m still ordering teams based on a proprietary mix of past performance, forward projections, herbs, and spices; it’s more art than science, although the science portion is steadily growing.

With trade season heating up, these rankings could look very different in two weeks when we reconvene. Stay tuned!

1. Cleveland

New Year’s Resolution: Don’t let up

The Cavs have done virtually everything right this year. Evan Mobley might make some Most Improved Ballots, Darius Garland is healthy and playing at a fringe All-Star level, Donovan Mitchell has been lights-out from deep, and Kenny Atkinson is the leading Coach of the Year candidate. Ty Jerome has somehow turned into TJ McConnell with a three-pointer. The vibes are good.

Home-court advantage matters, particularly for teams that may not have the best player in three of the four playoff series they hope to win. The Cavs have done an excellent job so far of mashing the pedal to the metal while opening up a massive 4.5-game lead over Boston in the Eastern standings. It’s a long season, and it’s easy for teams to fall into a lull. Cleveland must take a page from last season’s Celtics and keep going full-bore into the playoffs.

2. Oklahoma City

New Year’s Resolution: Buy a rangefinder

The Oklahoma City Thunder seem set up for success in perpetuity, but they aren’t a perfect team. The most glaring teamwide weakness is a lack of artillery.

Nearly everyone on the Thunder can shoot, but no one outside of Isaiah Joe inspires panic in the defense. That leaves them prone to cold stretches, as we saw in the NBA Cup Final. As a team, OKC is shooting just 35.1% from deep on league-average volume.

The Thunder may sniff around for a sniper at the trade deadline with their plentiful stockpile of picks and players, but it seems more likely they make a marginal move at best and see how this season plays out with their core. To win a championship, they’ll need to have some hot shooting nights. Time will tell whether they have the ammo for it.

3. Boston

New Year’s Resolution: Put the New Year’s champagne down

The Celtics don’t need a New Year’s toast. They look like a team still buzzing on last June’s championship bubbly.

Despite spending all summer and fall protesting to the contrary, the dreaded championship hangover has hit the Celtics. To be clear, they’re still very good and the title favorites. But this group isn’t obliterating foes like last year’s team did, and a lack of attention to detail has popped up at inopportune moments:

The Celtics’ road hasn’t been quite as smooth this year, including a bunch of little injuries that have added up over time. They are still the most talented team when they walk on the court virtually every night, however, and it’s pretty clear they’re simply waiting for the playoffs. We’ll see if they can shake off bad habits when it matters.

4. Memphis

New Year’s Resolution: Survive until the playoffs

You’d never know it from their sterling net rating and top-six rank on both offense and defense, but the Grizzlies have had to battle yet another rash of injuries. Last year’s breakout two-way wing Vince Williams Jr. just made his season debut a few games ago, Desmond Bane, Marcus Smart, Zach Edey, and Luke Kennard have all missed chunks of time, and star Ja Morant can’t stay on the court — he just picked up a shoulder injury.

The Grizzlies are a regular-season machine, and they may well finish second in the conference for the third time in four seasons. But they must find a way to get their starters right if they want to make noise in the postseason.

5. New York

New Year’s Resolution: Stress test KAT at the four

To this point, Karl-Anthony Towns has played almost exclusively at center. Those small-ball lineups have been unstoppable offensively and much improved defensively after a poor start to the season.

Still, the team seems likely to add some more size to the rotation, either through a trade or with the return of Mitchell Robinson. Towns at the four isn’t quite as dominant an offensive force, but it’s hard not to dream of the havoc a shotblocking big man, OG Anunoby, and Miles Bridges could wreak on offenses at all three levels.

Towns at power forward may not be ideal for him, but the playoffs are often about maximizing versatility, not showcasing strengths. There will be matchups when a double-big lineup makes sense, and the Knicks need to find a way to practice this alignment before it matters.

6. Dallas

New Year’s Resolution: Keep Luka healthy

It feels like all of the conversations around Luka Doncic’s various health and conditioning issues have overshadowed what’s been a very good team, and you know what? I’m about to be part of the problem.

Doncic will likely miss at least a month with yet another calf ailment. Soft tissue injuries can linger and pop up at the worst of times with no warning. The Mavericks made it to the Finals last season without home-court advantage; they’ve proven how good they can be. Right now, the only thing that matters is getting their star back into fighting shape.

To make it up to you, here’s a fun Mavs nugget. Dallas’ starting lineup has absolutely obliterated foes this season. Doncic, Kyrie Irving, Klay Thompson, PJ Washington, and Dereck Lively have outscored foes by +25.6 points per 100 possessions. Overall, Thompson’s integration has been surprisingly resilient defensively, as I dive into here. The Mavericks are a legitimate championship contender.

7. Houston

New Year’s Resolution: Find inner peace

The Rockets have accrued the most technical fouls in the league, and nearly every night, they’re involved in a fracas, donnybrook, or brouhaha. Last night’s debacle in Houston featured two different coaches getting ejected (the Rockets’ 12 ejections on the season are more than twice as many as the second-place Brooklyn Nets’ five).

Houston plays with passion, and their big kahuna, Ime Udoka, certainly isn’t one to douse those flames. But there’s a fine line between passionate and distracted. This team has major postseason hopes, and tempers tend to flare even higher in the playoffs than in the regular season (although refs give a longer leash in the ‘yoffs, too). It would be wise for them to try and find their inner peace now.

8. Orlando

New Year’s Resolution: Unlock da Silva

The Magic are one of the most inspiring stories in the league this season. Paolo Banchero goes down to a rare oblique tear five games into the season? No problem, Franz Wagner is ready to step up and be an alpha scorer. Wagner tears his own oblique? His brother Moritz is there, scoring 31 points. Mo goes down? Jalen Suggs and Tristan da Silva take the reigns.

Da Silva has logged 15 or more points in five of his last seven games after hitting that milestone just once in his first 23. The Magic have sorely needed his smooth all-around offensive game. Despite being 6’8”, the team has even used him as the ballhandler in some pick-and-roll possessions:

The Magic’s ability to squeeze out wins against all odds has been overwhelmingly impressive so far, and they are still fourth in the East, with Banchero’s return reportedly nearing. Even the healthiest version of the Magic still projects to be a below-average offensive team, but unlocking the best version of da Silva as a cutter, shooter, and tertiary ballhandler can remedy that to an extent.

9. Minnesota

New Year’s Resolution: Free Nickeil-Alexander Walker

On/off stats should always be taken with a truckload of salt, but it has to mean something that NAW’s on/off point differential of +11.8 is nearly triple the second-place Wolf’s +4.4 (Naz Reid).

NAW often subs in when Jaden McDaniels subs out, and they do some of the same things. But Alexander-Walker has simply been better this season on both ends. McDaniels is bigger, but that doesn’t matter as much as you’d think in most situations, given NAW’s 6’10” wingspan. Offensively, Alexander-Walker is shooting 43% from deep, best on the team, and he provides far more playmaking juice, as some of his sneaky passes show:

There are some matchups where McDaniels’ size is irreplaceable, and he’s not totally redundant with NAW. Putting both on the court together can create some dynamic defensive sequences. But Alexander-Walker needs more minutes than the 23 he’s getting right now, and shifting a few from McDaniels (whose shooting struggles have exacerbated the Wolves’ starting unit’s offensive struggles) makes a lot of sense.

10. Denver

New Year’s Resolution: Find a bench

The Nuggets’ sub-G-League performances without Nikola Jokic are, frankly, impressive. I keep thinking it has to get better, and I keep being wrong. This year, the team is somehow -27.7 points per 100 possessions worse when Jokic is riding mahogany.

Hope is here, however. Lineups with Jamal Murray and without Jokic have actually been better this year than in years past, boasting a net rating of -3.9 points per 100 possessions. That’s not good, but “not good” is a roaring success when the historical alternatives have been crimes against basketball. If Murray can stabilize the non-Jokic minutes going forward to some small degree, perhaps the big man can afford to take a breather now and then and stay just a smidge fresher for the playoffs.

The team also has been sniffing around for trade upgrades, although we’ll have to see if they make a move before passing any judgment.

11. LA Lakers

New Year’s Resolution: Keep up the defensive intensity

The Lakers have won five of their last six thanks to three Ws over Sacramento and a nice win over Memphis. They have righted the ship defensively (a top-10 defensive rating over that stretch), and the recent swap of D’Angelo Russell for Dorian Finney-Smith should help on both ends — if the team uses Finney-Smith the right way.

LA has had some shooting luck, but the strange defensive collapses that marked much of November appear to be a thing of the past. For all the media handwringing, the Lakers are currently fifth in the conference. Keeping their focus on the defensive end can keep them out of the play-in. Perhaps another trade can help them aim their sights higher.

12. LA Clippers

New Year’s Resolution: Find a backup center

You and I both know the honest answer here is for the Clippers to find a way to keep Kawhi Leonard ambulatory, but that’s low-hanging fruit. If they want to maximize their chances of success, the Clippers also need to bolster the back end of their backline by finding a new reserve center.

Mo Bamba is blocking shots, but he’s fouling the bejeezus out of offensive players along the way. He’s not a good defender, and he’s shooting 6-for-27 from deep. Kai Jones doesn’t look like an NBA player right now.

Ivica Zubac is a very good starting center, but the team should not fall off a cliff when he sits. There must be some better depth options out there — is it time for the yearly Bismack Biyombo return?

13. Atlanta

New Year’s Resolution: Market Jalen Johnson’s All-Star push

If this feels too early to talk about All-Star, I’d agree… except the voting polls are open! We’re at the point in the season where people are starting to seriously consider All-Star candidacies, but not close enough that there are more than a handful of surefire cases.

One player trying to make his first appearance is Atlanta’s breakout fourth-year forward Jalen Johnson. Johnson is averaging 20 points, 10 rebounds, and five and a half assists while also racking up more than a steal and a block per game — monster numbers matched by exactly zero other players in the league. Not Wembanyama, not Davis, not Tatum, not Giannis.

Trae Young, leading the league in assists, feels like a relatively sure thing to make the All-Star game. However, Johnson is a fringe case, and that’s where Atlanta’s marketing team needs to earn their salary. Can we get Johnson bobbleheads sent to media members? How about, like, a hawk feather quill pen with a Johnson inkwell?

This is why I’m not earning any of Atlanta’s marketing budget, but I’m sure they can develop something better. Make a push, Hawks!

14. San Antonio

New Year’s Resolution: Work on the Sochan/Wembanyama pairing

The Spurs have a laundry list of needs to address, but most can wait until the offseason. Right now, their most crucial on-court issue is figuring out if the viridescent-haired Jeremy Sochan fits next to their chess-playing extraterrestrial in the middle, Victor Wembanyama.

Sochan and Wemby were a disastrous group together to start the year, and it was easy to construct a narrative that Sochan’s complete non-shooting was cramping the floor. Part of the problem was that Wemby simply couldn’t buy a bucket from anywhere on the court, and it became a chicken-or-egg conundrum.

Then, Sochan missed a few games with injury, and Wemby found his shot. He’s remained in command of it since Sochan’s return. The duo now sports a +10.1 net rating since the start of December after being well into the negatives to begin the year.

Wemby is the unquestioned sun at the center of the Spurs’ galaxy. Sochan remains an intriguing but deeply flawed player; he’s eligible for an extension in the summer. The Spurs need to determine if Sochan is part of the solution before offering another contract.

15. Golden State

New Year’s Resolution: Continue taking care of the ball

The Warriors are currently (barely) on track to do something they haven’t done in a decade — finish in the top half of the league for turnover rate.

The Steve Kerr/Steph Curry era has had so many highs, but the consistent fly in the team’s clam chowder has been turnovers. Although Curry and Draymond Green continue to throw it around loosely this year, the rest of the team’s rotation has stepped it up by toning the turnovers down. That’s important for a Warriors team that can have trouble keeping up with more athletic teams in transition.

16. Phoenix

New Year’s Resolution: Gain some weight

Unlike most people, who want to downsize for the new year, the Suns could stand to bulk up. They routinely run out some of the league’s smallest lineups, and center Jusuf Nurkic’s unhappiness of late — which came to a head when he smacked Naji Marshall a few days ago, earning himself a three-game suspension — suggests they need a new solution in the middle.

Rookie Oso Ighodaro has had flashes, but he’s not ready for a full-time role yet. There are rumors the Suns have inquired after Chicago’s Nikola Vucevic and Washington’s Jonas Valanciunas; the latter, in particular, seems eminently gettable, but Phoenix won’t have much in the way of assets to send back if a small-scale bidding war erupts.

I’ve long defended the surly Nurkic, whose underrated defense and playmaking have been important structural elements for Phoenix on both sides. He won’t be as easy to replace as people think; neither of the names mentioned above brings either of those two things. However, it does feel like a divorce is imminent. With the team routinely running out three-guard alignments, can they afford to get much smaller?

17. Milwaukee

New Year’s Resolution: Nurture the Middleton/Lillard pairing

Khris Middleton’s defense has been a cause for concern, particularly some egregious fouls, but he’s been better offensively than could reasonably have been expected. In nine games, he’s making nearly half his outside shots and averaging five assists. His chemistry with Giannis Antetokounmpo remains intact, and lineups with Middleton playing are in the 93rd percentile offensively while outscoring opponents by +11.6 points per 100 possessions.

However, that’s a little misleading. Keeping Middleton healthy and getting him more reps next to Damian Lillard is important; right now, he’s played as much with Ryan Rollins at point guard as with Lillard. Interestingly, the team has performed abysmally when Middleton has shared the court with Lillard — their net rating of -12.4 is one of the team’s worst for any duo.

Injuries have made it difficult for the Bucks to find their flow. Hopefully, 2025 will bring new chances for Middleton and Lillard to develop together.

18. Miami

New Year’s Resolution: Resolve the Butler situation

The Jimmy Butler/Shams Charania/Bernie Lee/Pat Riley discourse has been exhausting. The long and short of it is that Butler wants to get paid or wants out to a team that will pay him, while Miami doesn’t want to diminish a team built to win now or spend big money on a 35-year-old.

The Heat don’t appear to have much upside, but Riley, coach Erik Spoelstra, and the rest of the organization aren’t believers in tanking — remember when they started a season 11-30, then went 30-11 down the stretch (missing the playoffs by a hair in the pre-play-in era)?

(That season, of course, resulted in the 14th pick — Bam Adebayo, further reinforcing Miami’s belief that they can chase wins without sacrificing draft upside. The difference this year is that the Heat’s pick is owed to the Thunder if they make the playoffs.)

Butler is a master of getting out of situations he doesn’t want to be in, but his leverage might not be enough, given his age and next year’s lack of cap space teams.

19. Philadelphia

New Year’s Resolution: Keep Oubre rolling

Don’t look now, but the 76ers have won nine of their last 12, including wins over Orlando, San Antonio, and Boston, despite rarely having their Big Three together.

An underrated factor has been the improved play of Kelly Oubre Jr., who has been Philly’s best on-ball defender, which is an astonishing sentence for anyone who saw him play in Charlotte. He’s long-armed and opportunistic, catching overconfident ballhandlers by surprise:

Oubre is in the 87th percentile of Defensive EPM, and his top matchups are a diverse and talented group, including Franz Wagner, Jayson Tatum, and Donovan Mitchell. Coach Nick Nurse trusts Oubre, and it doesn’t hurt that he’s shooting nearly 50% from the field and 37% from deep during these last 12 games.

20. Indiana

New Year’s Resolution: Get Haliburton into the paint

Injuries have hampered the skipping, smiling Tyrese Haliburton we saw at last year’s start, there’s no doubt about it. Whether it’s hamstring or back problems, Haliburton has lacked any burst this year — which is a problem for someone who was already a marginal athlete for an NBA point guard.

Much of the focus has been on Haliburton’s three-point percentage, where he’s struggled with consistency, but I’m more concerned about his inability to get into the paint. Just 12% of his shots this season have come at the rim, a terrible number for a primary ballhandler and nearly half of what he did last season.

He’s also only averaging 10.7 drives per game this year compared to 12.2 last season, and while he’s holding the ball less often, he’s actually had more touches per game this season than last. He often seems not just unable but unwilling to generate offense. The inability to get to the rim hurts his individual scoring numbers, but it also limits the impact of his excellent passing ability. Passing doesn’t mean as much if a player can’t bend the defense.

Whether it’s getting his body right, changing his mindset, or surrounding him with more shooting, the Pacers must find a way to get Haliburton into the paint.

21. Sacramento

New Year’s Resolution: Blow it up

I rarely call for teams to trade their best players. I’m not a fan of blowing it up in general, even when the raw math says that’s the move. There is a cost, both metaphorical and literal, to destroying fan goodwill. Sacramento knows better than anyone that there’s no guarantee of success on the other side.

But we’ve seen for two seasons now that the Kings’ ceiling is low enough to be a concussion hazard, and it’s hard for me to believe that Doug Christie will get better on-court results out of this group than the recently extended and even more recently fired Mike Brown. De’Aaron Fox is rumored to be interested in playing elsewhere, and he will have no shortage of suitors if he does decide to start flirting with other teams

I have no idea if Domantas Sabonis holds any trade value, nor DeMar DeRozan (although the latter might be tempting for teams looking for some bench scoring if DeRozan is willing to accept a sixth-man role; it’s hard to imagine good teams trading for him otherwise). But it’s time to find out. I’m sorry, Kings fans, I truly am.

22. Detroit

New Year’s Resolution: Flip-flop Hardaway and Beasley

It’s flown under the radar, but the Pistons’ Malik Beasley is having one of the most prolific shooting seasons in history for a reserve. He’s canning 42% from deep on more than nine attempts per game.

Beasley is playing about the same number of minutes (28) as starter Tim Hardaway Jr. Hardaway has been less accurate (36%), but the more significant difference has been the volume — Beasley is launching nearly twice as many threes per possession, and that spacing matters for freeing up Cade Cunningham’s 17 drives per game (fifth-most in the league).

Hardaway is a little bigger than Beasley and is theoretically a better defender, but the defensive difference is smaller than Beasley’s offensive advantage. Want proof? The Cunningham-Beasley duo is outscoring opponents by +6.0 points per 100 possessions; the Cunningham-Hardaway pairing is getting outscored by -7.1.

Perhaps replacing Hardaway with Beasley in the starting lineup wholesale makes the Pistons a bit too small, but Detroit should at least tilt the minutes a bit more in Beasley’s favor if they want to maximize Cunningham.

23. Chicago

New Year’s Resolution: Turn over a new leaf

It’s time, Chicago. Please ignore the fact that you’re technically in the play-in. Given the extraordinary weakness at the bottom of the conference, you can probably hang onto that ten-seed while selling half your team — which you should! Immediately!

Nikola Vucevic has never played better in a Bulls uniform; he’s an efficiency monster this year. Zach LaVine looks right as rain physically and motivated mentally. LaVine, at least, could return a first-rounder. Take what you can for Vucevic, and move on. No more holding out for an offer that never comes. New year, new leaf.

24. Portland

New Year’s Resolution: Lay the groundwork for future Camara All-Defensive Teams

Portland won’t have too many accolades this season, aside from perhaps a Donovan Clingan All-Rookie nod. And role players from bad teams rarely earn national praise. But Toumani Camara has become one of the league’s best defenders, and I hope Portland finds a way to work him into the national conversation alongside players like Amen Thompson, Herb Jones, and Lu Dort.

Camara can’t make the traditional case by relying upon stats. He’s numerically punished for playing on a terrible defensive team next to (mostly) terrible defensive players. But he doesn’t let circumstances affect his energy.

Camara expends so much effort compensating for teammates’ mistakes. Watch here as Shaedon Sharpe ludicrously decides to bet on 17 at the roulette table and gamble for the steal, completely taking himself out of the play. Camara slides over, feints the help on Jaden McDaniels’ drive, and snags a fingertip steal when the Wolf makes a nervous pass:

He won’t win an award this year, but at 24 years old, Camara can keep improving. Whenever the Blazers are good again, he’ll start getting the praise he deserves.

25. Brooklyn

New Year’s Resolution: Rack up the cell phone minutes

I hope Nets’ head honcho Sean Marks has an unlimited plan because the Nets figure to be active on the phones over the next few weeks as they try to create bidding wars for their talented vets. Dennis Schroeder was the first to move, followed by Dorian Finney-Smith. Cam Johnson, the prize pig, seems destined to go next. If an attractive enough offer comes, we might even see players like Nic Claxton or Cam Thomas shipped out, too.

The early-season Nets were a feisty (see that technical foul stat in the Rockets section!) and fun bunch, but feisty was never this team’s goal. They want to lose, and they’ve already raced far enough ahead of the likes of Washington and New Orleans that it might be hard to plumb the depths they truly want to. A couple of timely trades would kickstart the process by flattening their tires.

26. Toronto

New Year’s Resolution: Test Quickley, Barnes, and Barrett.

The Raptors’ trio has played as many minutes together this season as I have with you, dear reader: zero.

They did log 914 non-garbage-time possessions last season and performed promisingly, outscoring opponents despite the Raptors’ poor play overall. It would be nice to see them grow together this year.

A quick aside: RJ Barrett’s playmaking surge continues to astound even with the return of Scottie Barnes. He’s at 6.3 assists per game on the year, nearly double his previous career-high, and his Synergy numbers grade him as a well-above-average playmaker in the pick-and-roll. The film, surprisingly, agrees. He’s become far better at beading passes through tight passing lanes:

The eventual return of Immanuel Quickley will eat into those passing stats, but Barnes’ emergence as a playmaker can only pay long-term dividends. He cannot be relegated back into purely a scoring role, even if that means giving a few more possessions to him at Quickley’s expense.

27. Charlotte

New Year’s Resolution: Have LaMelo turn it down 10%

Look, I get it. The Hornets are injury-plagued and atrocious, and LaMelo Ball is trying to make up for lost time — he played just 58 combined games in the two seasons prior to this one.

But the man is jacking up 25 shots per game, including an astounding 13 triples, while averaging the second-fewest assists of his career. Can we get Ball to turn the knob, even just slightly, back to point guard? To start, the one-footed threes with 17 seconds on the shot clock have to go:

The Hornets have the most beautiful art, court, and jerseys in the game, and announcer Eric Collins is a legend. At his best, Ball is a hyperkinetic highlight machine. There is a killer TV product here somewhere; it’s up to coach Charles Lee and Ball to find it.

28. Washington

New Year’s Resolution: Keep Coulibaly engaged

Bilal Coulibaly is the team’s most exciting young player, a second-year Frenchman with eyebrow-raising defense and increasingly tangible offensive skills. That’s why it’s so frustrating when Coulibaly becomes an afterthought, often when Kyle Kuzma is in the game.

Coulibaly averages just 11 points and 2.7 assists per game on 42% from the field and 28% from deep when Kuzma plays; without him, his stats jump up to 15 points per game, 4.2 assists, 45% shooting from the field, and 32% from three. It’s the rare circumstance where a player shoots both more often and more accurately in the absence of a team’s offensive fulcrum.

Whether it’s trading Kuzma (which the team would undoubtedly love to do) or simply rearranging the offense to feature Coulibaly more, we need to see Bilal with the ball in 2025.

I’m irrationally high on the Wiz’s youngsters in general, particularly Coulibaly and rookies Bub Carrington and Kyshawn George. Washington will have another high draft pick this year. Don’t sleep on the 2027 Washington Wizards, and don’t be afraid to watch a few games until then, either.

29. Utah

New Year’s Resolution: Play the youngsters

As much as I love watching John Collins go for a 50/40/90 season (and I legitimately mean that, although it sounds like sarcasm), it makes no sense to not give Cody Williams, Kyle Filipowki, Isaiah Collier, Brice Sensabaugh, and the rest of the Jazz’s underplayed youth more minutes. (Keyonte George, at least, gets plenty of burn.)

The Jazz don’t want to win games, and at this point, Collins and Utah’s other veterans are known quantities. Whether they’re traded or not, they don’t need to play 30 minutes per night.

The product will be ugly; early rebuilds always are. However, players can only learn so much from the G-League and the bench, and if Utah wants to build a better tomorrow, they need to start today.

30. New Orleans

New Year’s Resolution: Find their shot

Renowned shooting coach Fred Vinson left the team to go to the Detroit Pistons, and nearly every Pelican of note started shooting well below their career averages from deep. Coincidence? You be the judge.

There have been plenty of other reasons for poor shooting, from the lack of a true on-ball initiator (Zion Williamson has only played six games, and point guard Dejounte Murray missed the first half of the season) to injuries to the team’s various wings and guards.

Whatever the case, guys like CJ McCollum (33%), Trey Murphy (36%), Herb Jones (27%), Jordan Hawkins (33%), and Murray (28%) need to mentally reset and approach 2025 with a clean shooting slate.

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This article originally appeared on Hoops Hype: NBA Power Rankings: Cavs mashing the pedal to the metal + New Year's resolutions