NBA Power Rankings: Milwaukee Bucks reclaim top spot after Week 5

Last week: Won at Chicago 114-101, won at Atlanta 135-127, beat Portland 137-129, beat Detroit 104-90

This week: Monday vs. Utah, Wednesday vs. Atlanta, Friday at Cleveland, Saturday vs. Charlotte

The Milwaukee Bucks are now 6-0 since losing All-Star Khris Middleton to a thigh injury and have won seven in a row and 11 of 12 overall since their 2-2 start to the season.

The Bucks have the NBA’s second-best record at 13-3, one game in back of the Los Angeles Lakers, and have picked up quality road wins over the Rockets, Clippers and Pacers.

At some point, you begin to run out of superlatives for Giannis Antetokounmpo, but the seventh-year player from Greece just keeps putting up bigger numbers. In Thursday’s win over the Trail Blazers, Antetokounmpo posted his second triple-double of the season with 24 points, 19 rebounds and a career-high 15 assists, despite going just 9-for-27 from the floor.

For the week, he averaged 29.5 points, 12.5 rebounds, 6.0 assists, 2.0 steals and 1.0 blocks in 31.7 minutes per game, shooting 52.3 percent overall, but just 22.7 percent on 5.5 3-point attempts per game and 47.7 percent at the line on 11 attempts a night. So there’s still work to be done in figuring out the whole shooting touch … thing.