1 (1) Pistons 8-1 Every team has two or three games per season like Saturday's in Dallas. You can stomach it a little easier when you show up for that nightmare undefeated. 2 (2) Spurs 8-2 Finley is back, Ginobili is healing and Spurs' Saturday hex is over. But there's no change at the top because Pistons get same one-loss grace period Spurs got. 3 (6) Mavericks 7-2 After spanking Spurs and Pistons, Mavs are up here on merit. Not because a procession of locals, including Sam The Locker-Room Attendant, hunted me down Saturday night to lobby for a top-three slot. 4 (7) Clippers 8-2 There's no shortage of skeptics saying this can't last, and maybe they're right. Or maybe this is the playoff year Mr. Brand, one of the good guys, has long deserved. 5 (10) Cavaliers 8-2 Cavs haven't lost a home game. They've won three in a row on the road. In other words, an LBJ squad is finally living up to the hype. 6 (12) Grizzlies 7-4 Grizz need only one more win this month to set a franchise record for November victories. So, yes, addition by subtraction is working so far. 7 (5) Pacers 6-3 I know I said even the best teams have a few nightmares every season, but you still struggle to fathom how a team this talented could lose by 32 at Charlotte. Only the struggles of other top-10 regulars prevented steeper punishment. 8 (3) Wizards 5-4 You know by now that we dispute the existence of a Power Rankings jinx. Wiz fans, though, will be pardoned for their jinx e-mails after being forced to toast their historic rise to No. 3 with three straight road defeats. 9 (4) Bucks 5-3 With two lopsided losses sandwiched around a nice win at GS, Bucks need to beat a beat-up Utah in the trip's finale to add credence to their promising start. 10 (13) 76ers 6-5 With Iverson in MVP form and Webber looking worlds more comfortable beside him -- and a second AI playing sticky D -- that 0-3 start seems like forever ago. --

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