NBA Power Rankings: Rampaging Cavs + X-Factors for each team

Welcome back to another installment of HoopsHype’s power rankings. Last time, we made New Year’s resolutions for each team. This week, we’ll look at an X-Factor for each team, someone or something that will have a disproportionate impact on their future success.

I take into account record, net rating, advanced metrics, a dash of recency bias, injuries, a little haruspicy, and common sense when doing these rankings, which is how I manage to make them objectively correct every time. I’m sure no one would disagree.

The trade deadline is less than a month away, so things might look different next time we do this.