The 2024-25 NBA All In-dex

Getty Images/Ringer illustration Some NBA teams are all in on the present, some are fully committed to the future, and some are the Oklahoma City Thunder. For the third year in a row, we analyzed every squad's financial and draft commitments to come up with a top-30 "all in" ranking. There's a new meaning to going all in in the NBA. Since we introduced our All In-dex just two years ago to rank all 30 teams by how hard they're pushing to win now, the league has introduced new, draconian penalties for big spenders via the "second apron," and franchises have responded with different perspectives on longer-term financial planning. Some teams remain heavily invested in sacrificing the future for a chance at a title right now; others are adapting to the new rules with a more conservative approach. So let's quantify those efforts and rank them for the third year in a row. For a more thorough explanation of how our rankings work, read our original story from 2022, or check in with last year's rankings. But for a quick summary, All In-dex scores have two components: (1) draft score, accounting for all first-round picks and swaps between now and 2031, and (2) money score, based on a team's...