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Earl's NBA power ranking · Week 1, 2026

Chicago grades out at -12.97 points versus an average team on a neutral floor, 31st in the league and nearly 3.6 points worse than their prior-season rating of -9.42, so this is a clear step back even against a soft schedule (-1.76). At 1-3 and underperforming the market by 3.06 points, the books are still pricing them better than the numbers say, which makes them a sell and a fade candidate whenever the spread sits a field goal or more short of that -13 baseline.