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Earl's NBA power ranking · Week 1, 2026

Dallas sits at 24th with a -4.709 neutral-field rating, meaning they'd be roughly a 4.7-point underdog to an average team, and that number comes against the league's second-toughest schedule (2.082) so the 2-2 record is doing some heavy lifting. The real story is the jump from a -8.37 prior-season rating — this is a genuine buy-low candidate, especially since the market prices them 10.55 points off their rating, which is a massive disconnect worth exploiting. No key players are docked, so this rating is clean and the improvement looks real rather than injury-driven.