NBA Season Preview: Ranking ALL 30 NBA Teams! Our Official 2026-27 Tier List

You are Locked On NBA, your daily NBA podcast.

Part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day.

Welcome to Locked On NBA Daily.

I'm Wes Goldberg here with Matt Moore and Hayes, and we have a big show for you today.

The regular season is less than 24 hours away from tipping off, and we've got the Locked On NBA channel's official preseason tiers.

We've asked the host of our 30 NBA team shows to cast their rankings for every team and put them in a tier, with S tier being the best and the F tier being the worst.

We're going to go through these tier rankings and reveal them on today's episode with commentary from a bunch of our hosts.

Let's start at the bottom, and we're going to make our way up.

We're going to start with both the F and the D tiers, folks, because I think we could put these together.

In our F tier, we have the Milwaukee Bucks and the Sacramento Kings, and in our D tier, the Brooklyn Nets and the LA Clippers.

Before I throw to you guys, let's hear from Locked On Kings host, James Hamm, on his thoughts on being in the lowest tier.

Oh,

this one.

The Sacramento Kings are in the bottom tier of the locked on preview.

Can't imagine that.

I mean, Vegas has them at 21 and a half wins.

ESPN has them at 19.

Locked on should pile on as well.

Look, I think it's going to be a rough season in Sacramento.

The Kings are in the middle of a transition.

They're rebuilding.

They're stuck in a rebuild.

They got a couple of giant salaries they can't get rid of.

And oh, by the way, Ben Simmons just blew out his Achilles.

Could be a long season in Sacramento.

You are Locked On NBA, your daily NBA podcast.

Part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day.

Welcome to Locked On NBA Daily.

I'm Wes Goldberg here with Matt Moore and Hayes, and we have a big show for you today.

The regular season is less than 24 hours away from tipping off, and we've got the Locked On NBA channel's official preseason tiers.

We've asked the host of our 30 NBA team shows to cast their rankings for every team and put them in a tier, with S tier being the best and the F tier being the worst.

We're going to go through these tier rankings and reveal them on today's episode with commentary from a bunch of our hosts.

Let's start at the bottom, and we're going to make our way up.

We're going to start with both the F and the D tiers, folks, because I think we could put these together.

In our F tier, we have the Milwaukee Bucks and the Sacramento Kings, and in our D tier, the Brooklyn Nets and the LA Clippers.

Before I throw to you guys, let's hear from Locked On Kings host, James Hamm, on his thoughts on being in the lowest tier.

Oh,

this one.

The Sacramento Kings are in the bottom tier of the locked on preview.

Can't imagine that.

I mean, Vegas has them at 21 and a half wins.

ESPN has them at 19.

Locked on should pile on as well.

Look, I think it's going to be a rough season in Sacramento.

The Kings are in the middle of a transition.

They're rebuilding.

They're stuck in a rebuild.

They got a couple of giant salaries they can't get rid of.

And oh, by the way, Ben Simmons just blew out his Achilles.

Could be a long season in Sacramento.