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The Top 10 Greatest Players in Kansas Basketball History
Kansas University (KU) basketball has a long and rich history dating back to the early 1900s. In fact, basketball’s inventor, Doctor James Naismith is an…
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Five Happy Surprises This Season
1) Shai, ascending Perhaps no player in the NBA has exploded quite like Shai Gilgeous-Alexander this season. Already a star before the year began, SGA…
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How Jaren Jackson Jr’s Unique Skill Set Makes Him DPOY Front-Runner
Jaren Jackson Jr. is the front-runner for Defensive Player of The Year and was just selected to his first All-Star game, so this take of…
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Are There Too Many Technicals Today?
The NBA does not like it when referees are the topic of discussion. Officials in any sport are at their best when their names never…
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Analyzing Winning Teams: Does Team Culture Really Matters?
In the midst of March Madness 2023, it is worth wondering how you can create a winning team. Aside from crafty drafts, tactical nous, and…
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The Top 10 Best NBA Draft Classes of All Time
The NBA draft is a crucial event for both the league and its teams as it has consistently produced some of the most talented and…
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What Quin Snyder does for the Hawks
After a disappointing start to a season, the favorite remedy for NBA teams is to fire the head coach. It says to the fans, “yes,…
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The Wild, Wild, Mediocre West
As of this writing, four teams are tied for the last two play-in spots: the Utah Jazz, Los Angeles Lakers, New Orleans Pelicans, and Portland…
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Can Quin Snyder Save The Hawks?
Sorry, Grant Williams Batman. The Scarecrow is back! After resigning from the Utah head honcho position after last year’s disappointing playoff exit, Snyder took his…
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Alex Caruso Should be a Lock for All-Defense
I’ve wanted to write a post about Alex Caruso for a bit. Some of the discourse around the Bulls, especially defensively, has annoyed me. It…
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2023 Third Quarter NBA Awards
We’re back with more awards! As a reminder: these awards are for the third quarter only, which I’m defining as from Jan 10th, 2023, through…
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Four Numbers To Watch Down The NBA’s Stretch Run
19.6 19.6 is the number of midrange (10-19 foot) jumpers that Devin Booker, Chris Paul, and Kevin Durant average per game. For reference, only the…
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In Praise of the Washington Wizards
There isn’t a team in the league as quickly dismissed by NBA pundits as the Washington Wizards. Critics snicker at the Wizards’ willingness to forego…
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Patrick Beverley Coming Home, Signs with the Chicago Bulls
The Chicago Bulls needed to do something. Anything on the buyout market is probably rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic for this Bulls team…
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LeBron James Breaks The NBA All-Time Scoring Record
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar broke the NBA’s all-time scoring record in 1984, and he went on to amass a total of 38,387 points in his stellar career,…
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9 Up And Coming WNBA Players To Watch In The 2023 Season
The WNBA is the premier women’s basketball league in the US, and has arguably the best collection of talent of women’s basketball players in the…
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2023 NBA All-Star Saturday Night Preview: Skills Competition, Three-Point Competition & Dunk Contest Predictions
The rosters are set. Tickets are booked. Controversies are brewing. Weird substitutions are happening. And we’re just talking about the three-point contest! All-Star Saturday is…
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The League’s Wildest Shot Charts in 2022-23
The shot chart is one of the niftiest and most useful tools in basketball analysis. Invented by ESPN’s Kirk Goldsberry, a former professor of geography…
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Basketball players are often portrayed as wealthy and extravagant due to their success andpublic image. However, this is not always the case. Many NBA players…
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