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Earl's NBA power ranking · Week 1, 2026

New Orleans sits at 23rd with a -4.375 neutral-field rating, meaning they'd be roughly 4.4-point underdogs to an average team, and their -5.646 strength of schedule suggests even that mark is partly schedule-driven. The 0-3 record with a +2.75 vs-market figure says the market has been overrating them and they've underperformed the number, so this is a sell until the rating stabilizes. At -4.375 they're a full field goal worse than a typical middling spread would imply, so lay the points against them rather than backing the name.