Hoops Tonight - New NBA Power Rankings: Knicks BALLING, Nuggets FALLING, Celtics, Thunder & Lakers bounce back
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
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🗓️ 3 March 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Jason reacts to the last week of NBA games to give his latest power rankings including the New York Knicks rising after an impressive win over Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs, the Denver Nuggets in free fall since Nikola Jokic returned from injury, Jaylen Brown leading the Boston Celtics, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's return for the OKC Thunder, and Luka Doncic keeping the Los Angeles Lakers afloat with wins over weak opponents.
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| 0:19.9 | All right, welcome to Hoops tonight here at The Volume. Happy Monday, everybody. Hope all of you guys had an incredible weekend. As promised today, we're going to be doing a detailed power rankings. So we're going to be doing our usual power rankings like we do every Monday, but deeper dives into each of the 10 teams along the way. You guys know the joke before we get started. Subscribe to the Hoops Tonight YouTube channel |
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| 0:53.7 | All right, let's talk some basketball, starting with number 10, the Los Angeles Lakers, |
| 1:00.0 | currently plus 6,000 to win the title on Hard Rock Bad. Got back on track with a couple of wins this |
| 1:05.2 | weekend and a back-to-back against a very short-handed Warriors team that had kind of been playing |
| 1:09.1 | some feisty basketball. They just proved to be way too undersized on the perimeter. |
| 1:14.2 | This Laker team this season has been so much more diligent about hunting smalls in the post |
| 1:19.5 | than they were in the previous year. |
| 1:22.0 | That last year, the first year with Luca, it was a lot of Luca and LeBron hunting bigs |
| 1:26.0 | and switches. |
| 1:26.9 | Love how much the Lakers through their bigs have been hunting smaller defenders this |
| 1:31.8 | season. They just bullied Golden State Smalls over and over and over again, really |
| 1:36.0 | controlled the flow of the game as they continued to get fantastic shots and the Warriors |
| 1:39.9 | just decomposed. And then the Sacramento Kings are literally the worst team in the league. |
| 1:43.6 | So a couple of wins there. |
| 1:45.6 | Stays in line with the Lakers season long trend of handling the lesser teams and struggling |
| 1:50.0 | against the better teams. |
| 1:51.5 | The main bit of optimism, if you're a Lakers fan from these last three games, centers |
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