There are four teams in the NBA that currently rank in the top ‎10 in both offensive and defensive efficiency.

Those four teams have a combined record of 43-7.

Those four teams, along with the defending champs from San Antonio, can also be found in the top five of ESPN.com's weekly NBA Power Rankings.

This is not a coincidence.

Golden State, Memphis, Toronto and Portland form the aforementioned quartet of clubs that account for that gaudy 43-7 mark and whose respective offenses and defenses can be found in the upper third of ESPN.com's Hollinger Team Statistics page.

So at least they made it easy for us to settle on the handful of teams that would occupy the most coveted five slots on this Rankings Monday, if not the precise order ... since Golden State, Memphis and Toronto are by no means easy to separate.

As noted in our latest Houston comment, we're a sufficiently manly committee (of one) that can put our hands up and confess that the Warriors had a worthy case to stay at No. 1 last Monday, which undoubtedly helped nudge them ahead of the Grizzlies this ‎week. The Raps, meanwhile, will have to settle for No. 1 in the East status, which is a distinction they enjoy by a wide margin thanks to their gaudy nightly average plus/minus of plus-12.2. That's not only the league's highest plus/minus figure but also dwarfs the No. 2 reading in the conference: Washington's plus-3.4.

The Spurs, meanwhile, strike us as unquestioned top-five material, too, given the quality wins they've quietly racked up (Mavs on opening night; Clippers, Warriors and Cavs all on the road) and the fact they're still playing elite D (No. 3 in defensive efficiency) even without the injured Tiago Splitter.

‎Friendly reminder: Join us again next Monday when the committee reconvenes to rank the teams 1 to 30 and dissect that order here on Stein Line Live.