B-Roy’s Blazers are a year away.

Wrapping up the regular season, we rank the non-playoff teams. Come back later today for the playoff team rankings heading into the postseason.

30. Miami Heat (15-67) — Who here is worth keeping? Obviously D-Wade and Marion. Haslem stays because he fills a role that every team needs filled. Daequan Cook and Earl Barron (a 26-year-old athletic 7-footer) have potential. And we’ll give Dorell Wright one more year to show us something. After that, everyone else can go kick rocks. And that includes Pat Riley, who clearly has no interest in coaching a team unless he has at least two A-List superstars to work with.

29. New York Knicks (23-59) — For the Knicks’ final home game, Madison Square Garden decided to give away free food to its long-suffering fans. On a totally unrelated note, we couldn’t find Eddy Curry or Jerome James anywhere near the Knicks’ bench that night. But we did spot two 7-foot, 300-something-pound guys with skull caps pulled low on their heads hitting a bunch of concession stands throughout the game.

28. Memphis Grizzlies (22-60) — He won’t win Most Improved Player, but Rudy Gay deserves props for taking a huge leap forward in his second season. Rudy averaged 20 points and six boards a night, had 12 games of 30-plus points, became the Grizzly who’s entrusted to take the last shot in crunch-time, and his 46% shooting from the field is actually really good for the best player on an awful team.

27. Minnesota Timberwolves (22-60) — As much grief as everyone (us included) gives Kevin McHale, he did do a good job of setting up the Wolves for success post-Garnett. Randy Foye, Al Jefferson and Rashad McCants all played very well in the last month of the season, and Corey Brewer should be good when/if he bulks up. Plus they can get an impact player in the Draft with their Lottery pick. One thing Minnesota needs to figure out, though, is who exactly the #1 guy is here. Jefferson was unquestionably The Man for most of the season until Foye came back and forced his way into the conversation.

26. Los Angeles Clippers (23-59) — If they just ceased to exist, would anyone notice? Seriously, it’s actually sad that Seattle is having their team robbed from them, meanwhile L.A. has this whole other team that nobody outside of Frankie Muniz cares about. In fact, who would be opposed to just moving the Clippers to Seattle? Everyone in L.A. wants to root for the Lakers anyway.

25. Seattle Supersonics (20-62) — Last week on “NBA Hardwood Classics” they showed an ‘05 playoff game where the Sonics beat the Spurs at KeyArena. This was only THREE YEARS AGO! There’s no way anyone who watched that game would have thought that by 2008, that same franchise would field a terrible basketball team that’s most likely moving to Oklahoma by the end of the decade.

24. Milwaukee Bucks (26-56) — After being stashed in the D-League all year, rookie PG Ramon Sessions became the new Jose Calderon, averaging 11.5 points and 11.3 assists over the final 10 games with the big-league squad. During that stretch he knocked down a game-winning shot, set a franchise record when he dropped 24 assists in one game, and led the Bucks in scoring in the season finale. So that’s one positive.

23. Charlotte Bobcats (32-50) — When former #3 overall pick Adam Morrison comes back next season, where’s he gonna play? J-Rich and Gerald Wallace (Charlotte’s two highest-paid players) have the starting two and three spots on lock, and Matt Carroll is established as the designated shooter off the bench. Has a high Lottery pick ever fallen so far on the depth chart through no fault of his own? That’d be like if the Blazers lost Greg Oden for the season, did a sign-and-trade for someone like Emeka Okafor while he was gone, saw LaMarcus Aldridge lock up the PF spot, then decided they really liked Joel Przybilla as the backup center, leaving Oden with a serious uphill climb on his way back.

22. Chicago Bulls (33-49) — They’ve got some promising young talent up front with Tyrus Thomas and Joakim Noah, you just hope they haven’t suffered long-term damage from enduring such a disaster of a season. Especially someone like Noah, who thrives in a winning environment and hasn’t had to deal with losing very often.

21. New Jersey Nets (34-48) — Richard Jefferson was minding his own business putting together a career year, even getting some early All-Star talk, when suddenly every (Jason Kidd included) figured out the Nets stink. Since then RJ’s numbers have gone down every month and no one’s talking about him anymore.

20. Sacramento Kings (38-44) — Kevin Martin is The Man here, but on how many other teams would he realistically be the #1 option? The Kings are basically a team full of role players with one quasi-star (Martin) and one guy who thinks he’s a superstar (Artest). If they continue to be that, they’ll always be middle-of-the-pack.

19. Indiana Pacers (36-46) — If only Mike Dunleavy could play the Knicks every day. In four games against New York this year, Dunleavy averaged 31 points per. Since you know Donnie Walsh and Larry Bird will make at least a couple of deals together, odds are Dunleavy ends up in a Knicks uniform before it’s all said and done.

18. Portland Trail Blazers (41-41) — Travis Outlaw’s slow but eventual ascension to “legit contributor” status, finally paying dividends in his fifth year in the League, means the Blazers will continue to be patient with Martell Webster. We all know Webster (10.7 ppg) can shoot, but he’s gotta be more consistent with his stroke (38% 3PA) and continue to improve on every other aspect of his game.

17. Golden State Warriors (48-34) — Financial reasons aside (clearing up cap space to re-sign Baron and Monta), we still don’t understand why the Warriors traded for Brandan Wright under the guise that they needed him to help with their interior weaknesses, then stuck him on the bench all year. If Nellie had given the rookie more PT, we honestly think GS would be in the playoffs right now. Instead they’ve got a potential powder keg with the Baron/Nellie relationship, they’re back in the Lottery, and Stephen Jackson has all summer to wonder, “If only I’d been more aggressive offensively…”

#’s 16-1 coming later today…