NBA.com recently released its new power rankings, and after their comeback win against the Celtics last Friday, the Cavaliers jumped three places to retake the title as the NBA's top team in their rankings.

This 2024-25 Cavaliers team is delivering one of the best regular season showings in franchise history. In 2008-09, Cleveland won 66 games, the most ever. If the current Cavs win 19 of their last 24 games, they will set a new team record for victories.

Are the Cleveland Cavaliers one of the three teams in the NBA's Eastern Conference that can beat the Boston Celtics at full strength? Which top teams, if any, can lay claim to such a bold take, given the Celtics are the current defending champions and have played pretty much all of the East ball clubs well so far this season?