If the NBA season ended today and the Finals matchup was based on the teams with the best record in their respective conference, we'd be getting ready for a battle between Memphis and Detroit.

And that was totally my prediction. While all y'all zigged with Golden State and Cleveland, I zagged with the Grizz and the Pistons. Now if only I could find written proof of said prediction...

In any event, it was a volatile week in the NBA, thus it was a volatile week in nERD, our in-house metric that predicts a team's ultimate winning percentage. (The team ranking is on a scale from 0-100, with 50 as the league average.) Upsets and blowouts galore -- most of which involved the whoda-thunk-it Orlando Magic -- did all kinds of damage to the rankings list.

Lets take a look at the nERDy ups, downs, and holds from the NBA week that was.