It’s an exciting time to be an Oklahoma City Thunder fan. Last season saw the fruits of several years of labor finally bloom – a little ahead of schedule, perhaps – with a young, dynamic team gaining the No.1 seed in the Western Conference. As widely reported, the front office had a good offseason, adding […]
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The NBA season kicks off this week! It’s time to make predictions for the new NBA season. Prediction articles can be so unpredictable. Wild predictions. Conservative predictions. Betting odds. Sometimes, all of these combined. The parity in the NBA has made the wild predictions seem tame. I would not have guessed that last year’s NBA […]
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On the eve of the latest NBA season, the people are curious. They have witnessed the offseason maneuvers. The paydays. The surgeries. The NBA Draft and Summer League. The Olympics. The rosters were meticulously organized for training camp and preseason games. Now it’s time for NBA predictions! All of those so-called experts need to provide […]
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The 2024 NBA Draft is one of the hallmark events of the NBA schedule. For the draftees, it represents the culmination of all their hard work, blood, sweat, and tears. It sometimes overwhelmed them, as several burst into real tears alongside their family on live television. For the NBA, it signifies where the league is […]
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We are a day removed from the NBA Draft, and what a draft it was. I have never seen the top two picks play live. Only YouTube highlights. Like most NBA fans, I struggled to access the NBL and the LNB Pro A regularly. After a chaotic draft, we fans are heading toward a chaotic […]
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Nikola Jokic doesn’t campaign for awards. He doesn’t follow the daily arguments on social media and the major networks. He feigns surprise that he is even in consideration, let alone selected for awards, especially the historically coveted NBA MVP Award. Future first-ballot Hall-of-Famer LeBron James has four MVP awards. Michael Jordan, arguably the greatest basketball player of all time, […]
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3% odds for anything are minuscule odds. It means if an event were to happen 100 times, it would only happen a certain way three times (on average) in 100 tries. The Atlanta Hawks are in the correct multiverse because they won the NBA Draft Lottery on Sunday afternoon! The NBA Draft Lottery provides all […]
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Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese, and the undefeated champion South Carolina Gamecocks captured America’s basketball attention over the past few weeks. Men’s professional basketball now takes the wheel as the NBA playoffs have arrived. Plenty of exciting matchups have surfaced after the Play-In Tournament ended. Interestingly, the final four participants from the 2023 NBA Playoffs square off again […]
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The NBA head coaching fraternity should be more substantial, given the league’s 75-year history. However, the recent trend of coaching hires has led to recycling coaching names. Just look at the NBA head coaching retreads that happened this past offseason. Maybe it’s just laziness on the part of general managers. Hire the name guy. But, there […]
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Friday is the Celebrity Game and Rising Stars Game. Saturday is a Skills Competition, Three-Point Shootout, and Dunk Contest. Sunday is the All-Star Game. Every NBA All-Star Weekend is the same. Sprinkle in some community service events, old-timers’ roundtable, musical guests… the blueprint is repeated every season. Slight variations to each event can happen from […]
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Troubling times have emerged for the Golden State Warriors franchise. A vast majority of their history could be described as troubling. However, the last ten years have seen unprecedented success, the likes of which we have not seen since the 1990s Chicago Bulls. Four championships across seven years! Now, the feathers have begun to ruffle. […]
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The NBA needed something in the first quarter of the regular season. Opening Day matchups are hot with anticipation. Christmas Day games are fun slugfests leading to the fight for All-Star votes, All-Star weekend, the NBA trade deadline, and the playoffs. But what about the gap from Opening Day to Christmas? The first 20 games […]
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It’s that time of the year again. The NBA is back in action, and the lovers of hoops are making their crazy predictions for the NBA season. Confession: For better or worse, the NBA might be the most predictable of the four major North American sports. Barring injury, the NBA team with the star players […]
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The Denver Nuggets emerged from the NBA wilderness to win their first championship. The Nuggets earned the number one seed in the West and made quick work of the Minnesota Timberwolves. Their dismantling of the Phoenix Suns cost head coach Monty Williams his job (until Williams upended the coaching market) and perhaps ended future Hall-of-Famer […]
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