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Earl's NBA power ranking · Week 1, 2026

Golden State sits at 22nd with a -4.159 neutral rating, meaning they're roughly four points worse than an average team, and that's a modest improvement on last year's -5.486 prior. At 1-3 with a soft -0.87 strength of schedule, they've beaten the market by 1.5 points, so the number may be lagging slightly behind a team trending the right direction. Buy-low territory: the rating implies they'd be underdogs by about four to a league-average opponent, which is a fairer price than their record suggests.