Today's Best NBA Reporting and Analysis 10/27/15

-  Our Annual Tiers of the NBA  (from Zach Lowe, Grantland):

" It’s time for our last big preseason tradition: Tiers of the NBA, where we group teams into categories meant to time-stamp both their place in the league’s hierarchy and on their own internal development path. These are not strict power rankings, and the listed order within each tier doesn’t …