Not too long ago, NBA Math held a straw poll among its writers, prompting everyone to vote on midseason awards. Most of my choices were pretty boilerplate: James Harden as the MVP, Ben Simmons as Rookie of the Year, Victor Oladipo for Most Improved Player
Through 27 games, the Cleveland Cavaliers have experimented with three different primary facilitators in their starting lineup outside of LeBron James: Derrick Rose, Dwyane Wade and Jose Calderon. But despite manufacturing the third-best offensive rating, the Cavs still haven’t found a suitable floor general who can
Paul George made an Association-altering decision to extract himself from the Indiana Pacers, which redefined the landscape of basketball in both Indiana and Oklahoma City. For me, the Indianapolis resident, the Pacers podcast host, the basketball writer and the advanced stats dork, writing this piece
Somewhere in the NBA is a team with a point guard conundrum—a squad with two players vying for one spot. They’re both former first-round picks (one much higher than the other) and on their second franchise, despite being in their second and third years. At
On November 10, the outlook for the Utah Jazz seemed bleak. They were 5-7 and had just lost to the Miami Heat, only managing to muster 74 points. Worse, though, was the fact that franchise centerpiece Rudy Gobert went down with a knee injury that
If luck truly is the byproduct of preparation colliding with opportunity, then Spencer Dinwiddie finally caught a break in November 2017, when he took the place of injured Brooklyn Nets point guard D’Angelo Russell. And if the first quarter of the season is any indication,
Tyson Chandler and DeAndre Jordan. They’re the go-to examples of a distinctive NBA archetype: the athletic center who patrols the paint on defense and rolls to the rim on offense. They’re also the players to whom scouts and analysts compared Willie Cauley-Stein ahead of the
Ball-dominant players who have a track record for being unable to make long-distance shots typically receive heaps of criticism. Players like Marcus Smart, Elfrid Payton, Ricky Rubio and Rajon Rondo each possess an array of beneficial skills, but their shooting woes are firmly ingrained into the