Top to Bottom : CAPSULES AND RANKINGS

Team (Record): 1. Chicago (37-5)

Comment (Last Week’s Rank): Everyone chuckling about vaunted triple post after Jordan gets 51, Bulls 37 vs. Knicks. (1)

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Team (Record): 2. Houston (32-11)

Comment (Last Week’s Rank): Rockets just hoping their wheelchairs can hold up until April. (2)

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Team (Record): 3. Seattle (30-12)

Comment (Last Week’s Rank): Time to stop dissing SuperSonics. Thin or not, they’re 10-1 since Jan. 1. (4)

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Team (Record): 4. Lakers (30-12)

Comment (Last Week’s Rank): Charles Barkley says the Rockets need a player like Robert Horry. So do the Lakers. (3)

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Team (Record): 5. Miami (30-11)

Comment (Last Week’s Rank): Pat Riley on his team’s lack of talent: “Effort is a talent too.” (5)

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Team (Record): 6. New York (29-13)

Comment (Last Week’s Rank): Got reality check on the road at Houston, Phoenix, Chicago, Charlotte; failed it. (6)

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Team (Record): 7. Utah (29-13)

Comment (Last Week’s Rank): Locals are calling WNBA’s Elena Baranova “the best pro center in Utah.” (7)

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Team (Record): 8. Atlanta (28-12)

Comment (Last Week’s Rank): Turned-off fans filing back into the Omni. Seven sellouts; five all last season. (9)

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Team (Record): 9. Detroit (30-11)

Comment (Last Week’s Rank): Grant Hill and the 11 Dwarfs are still hanging in there. (8)

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Team (Record): 10. Charlotte (24-18)

Comment (Last Week’s Rank): Mason: 47 points, 25 rebounds, 16 assists in three games vs. Larry Johnson. (11)

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Team (Record): 11. Portland (25-18)

Comment (Last Week’s Rank): Imagine what the Trail Blazers would do if they came to all the practices. (12)

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Team (Record): 12. Cleveland (23-18)

Comment (Last Week’s Rank): Lasorda gets buddy Fratello victory vs. Clips, or Cavaliers would have had 0-4 trip. (10)

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Team (Record): 13. Orlando (19-19)

Comment (Last Week’s Rank): 8-2 since Hardaway came back, 12-3 overall with him, 6-17 without him. (17)

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Team (Record): 14. Washington (21-21)

Comment (Last Week’s Rank): Bullets are tough on small fry but 2-15 against top 10 teams. (13)

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Team (Record): 15. Milwaukee (20-21)

Comment (Last Week’s Rank): Nine losses in 14 games, 10th in the East. But Bucks would be sixth in West. (14)

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Team (Record): 16. Minnesota (19-23)

Comment (Last Week’s Rank): Timberwolves on pace to beat the club mark by nine wins, but Marbury’s out. (16)

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Team (Record): 17. Phoenix (15-27)

Comment (Last Week’s Rank): Ceballos doing so well, they’re calling the trade “DJ-for-Robey in reverse.” (18)

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Team (Record): 18. Indiana (19-21)

Comment (Last Week’s Rank): This still ain’t happening and the natives are getting restless. (15)

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Team (Record): 19. Sacramento (18-25)

Comment (Last Week’s Rank): Kings are No. 7 in the (ugh) West, on a 35-win pace. (20)

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Team (Record): 20. Clippers (16-24)

Comment (Last Week’s Rank): They’re No. 8 in the West, which would be great, but Suns are rising. (19)

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Team (Record): 21. Golden State (16-25)

Comment (Last Week’s Rank): Warriors should ask wizard for the whole package: courage, heart and brain. (20)

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Team (Record): 22. Toronto (14-27)

Comment (Last Week’s Rank): Stoudamire: Hardaway’s doing great but “so would we with big stud in post.” (22)

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Team (Record): 23. Dallas (14-26)

Comment (Last Week’s Rank): The beat goes on: Buckner, Motta, Zacca nelli . . . (23)

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Team (Record): 24. New Jersey (11-29)

Comment (Last Week’s Rank): Gill, 21 ppg, top comeback candidate. Also a top trade candidate. (24)

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Team (Record): 25. Denver (13-30)

Comment (Last Week’s Rank): LaPhonso Ellis averaging 24 points, scores 30 in four of 14 games. (25)

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Team (Record): 26. San Antonio (11-28)

Comment (Last Week’s Rank): Popovich sends game films to Nellie (no gag), who spots flaw: no Admiral. (28)

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Team (Record): 27. Boston (9-30)

Comment (Last Week’s Rank): Things looking up in Duncan Derby, 17 of next 22 on road, where they’re 1-14. (26)

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Team (Record): 28. Philadelphia (9-33)

Comment (Last Week’s Rank): Giving up league-worst 105 points. Johnny Davis may not be a defensive guru. (27)

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Team (Record): 29. Vancouver (8-36)

Comment (Last Week’s Rank): Inmates capture asylum: Blue Edwards ips Brian Winters, who’s then fired. (29)

GAME OF THE WEEK

LAKERS AT SEATTLE

* When--Today. Time--Noon. TV--Channel 4.

* Storyline--The SuperSonics, who lost the first meeting in the Forum, want to show they can beat the Shaq Lakers. The Lakers, smarting from losses to the Trail Blazers and Pistons, want to show them they can’t. Seattle excels at trapping the post and rotating, so O’Neal’s supporting cast will have to come ready.