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As we gear up for playoffs and accolades seasons, my content itinerary is quickly filling up. Matchup analysis, All-NBA and All-Defensive teams, individual awards… there’s…
View More The All-Poetry Teams: Who have I enjoyed watching the most this season?
Josh Okogie, Phoenix Suns Assuming KD can return from injury for the playoffs, the Suns have four locked-in starters and closers: Chris Paul, Devin Booker,…
View More 4 Looming NBA Playoff X-Factors
The Philadelphia 76ers are currently riding a six-game winning streak, sit one game behind second place in the Eastern Conference and have the favorite for…
View More Philadelphia 76ers Look Like Contenders, Why Aren’t they Treated Like One?
With the postseason approaching in 12-ish games, the playoff picture is starting to take some semblance of shape — postmodern art, as opposed to a…
View More Four Dream First-Round Playoff Matchups
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…
View More Five Happy Surprises This Season
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…
View More How Jaren Jackson Jr’s Unique Skill Set Makes Him DPOY Front-Runner
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…
View More Are There Too Many Technicals Today?
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,…
View More What Quin Snyder does for the Hawks
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…
View More The Wild, Wild, Mediocre West
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…
View More Can Quin Snyder Save The Hawks?
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…
View More Alex Caruso Should be a Lock for All-Defense
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…
View More 2023 Third Quarter NBA Awards
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…
View More Four Numbers To Watch Down The NBA’s Stretch Run
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…
View More In Praise of the Washington Wizards
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…
View More Patrick Beverley Coming Home, Signs with the Chicago Bulls
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,…
View More LeBron James Breaks The NBA All-Time Scoring Record
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…
View More 2023 NBA All-Star Saturday Night Preview: Skills Competition, Three-Point Competition & Dunk Contest Predictions
The Mavericks – Spurs rivalry has been in existence since the Dallas Chaparrals became the San Antonio Spurs. The two teams have contested playoffs and…
View More NBA Rivalries: Dallas Mavericks VS. San Antonio Spurs
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…
View More The League’s Wildest Shot Charts in 2022-23
Remember those halcyon days when it looked like the trade deadline would be chill? “There aren’t enough sellers,” people claimed. Well, it turns out that…
View More Grading the 2023 NBA Trade Deadline