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NBA Future Power Rankings: Which teams are in the best shape for the next three seasons?

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How will your team perform over the next three NBA seasons?

The Future Power Rankings are ESPN's projection of the on-court success expected for each team over the next three seasons: 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25.

Consider this a convenient way to see the direction in which your favorite team is headed. To determine the Future Power Rankings, we asked ESPN analysts Kevin Pelton, Bobby Marks, Andre Snellings and Tim Bontemps to rate teams in five categories and rank them relative to the rest of the league.

Since the last version of the Future Power Rankings dropped in March, we've seen the Golden State Warriors return to the top of the NBA mountain. But was another title -- and locking up Jordan Poole and Andrew Wiggins to contract extensions -- enough to return the Warriors to the top of our rankings? 

An explanation of each category and a full view of how each team did in each category is at the bottom of the rankings. Each team also received an overall Future Power Rating of 0 to 100, based on how well we expect it to perform over the next three seasons. Here are our latest rankings.

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